Suggestions for a 1 time recording?

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First thing I should mention is I am in a time crunch!

So story goes, my soon to be wife's father was supposed to sing at our wedding. He doesn't think he will be able to do it in person like he wanted to(emotions and a long life of smoking.) So I talked him into making a CD for the wedding. The thing is I have 7 days or so to do this.


So I told him I will have the song mastered and we will play that.


Besides getting a the software to do so, what else would I need?



I was thinking of having the song play in a set of heads phones and for him to sing into the mic. I assume this is the best way to do this so you don't hear the music when he is singing. Then just paying someone to merge the 2 and master it(lots of people on fiverr I think will do it)

I have a very nice computer with an OK USB mic. I am going to see if I can get a buddy's nice mic setup and just plug it right into my sound card, if that is a better route?



So any suggestions on making this go smooth and turn out ok?


Going to try recording tomorrow!
 
My suggestion is find a local studio and get them to do the recording, I do these types of projects all the time, singers to backing tracks (I assume that is what you are doing?) for weddings, funerals etc, it only takes 1 or 2 hours and the person and family get a recording to keep.

This will be a lot less headaches for you.

Alan.
 
+1 for what Witzendoz said.

Find somebody already doing it and enlist their help. A local studio would be perfect but if cash is an issue you may find a talented amateur if you look around.

I don't want to overplay the difficulty but there IS a learning curve--and a steep one. There's simply no plug and play solution and no "make it sound good automatically" button on any recording software. With your time constraints (and with only a week before the wedding I'm guessing you'll be busy anyway) I'm concerned that you won't get a quality job doing it yourself--and you want your dad's performance at the wedding to be as good and memorable as possible.
 
It took me seven days just to get set up and learn the software... I'd go with the clever amateur.
 
Where are you located? If you're near a memeber they might possibly help you out by tracking it for you. As has been said, you ain't gonna come from the ground up in a week.
 
There is a way... Pay a visit to your local Apple store, get something with Garageband pre-loaded, a USB Mic... you'll probably have the job done in four hours.
 
I don't plan to be the person to edit/master it.


I mainly just want to record his voice and send it off.


That being said, I have an OK mic, headset, and Mixcraft.



going to give it a shot tomorrow and see. If it turns out bad, we'll just play the song by the original person that sung it.

I'm in Chicago.

Thanks,
Brian
 
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