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cloakedcrow
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Hello, all. This is my first post here, and I am, by every definition of the word, a newbie.
Recently, I wrote a song that, in my opinion and that of my close friend's, is (to be blunt) the shiznaught. Granted, we were not completely in our right minds at the time I picked to reveal the song to my friend, but regardless, he took it and started writing a guitar part for it. Since then, I've written several other songs that have potential, at least in my own little self-deluded world. Anyway, the point of my post is this: I'm a singer. I sing. I know nothing about recording. But I want to get these babies down on tape, get together some musician friends of mine, make a record. Not a spiffed-up, clean-cut album by any means, but just five or six songs that I can send to a CD duplication place, put in paper sleeves, and hand out in front of the campus union or something. Let people know I exist, and that, if they have the same warped sense of reality that I do, they might be able to enjoy my ideas.
So I'm looking at four-tracks. I'm thinking pretty seriously about the Tascam 414mkII, because it's cheap enough that a poor college student like me can afford it, if I save up, and because it looks like I could use it for a while. As in, I could maybe actually make a lo-fi album with it in the future, instead of saying, "Hmm, this MF-P01 was good for getting my ideas down before I forgot them, but now I want to make something actually listenable, so I guess I'll go plunk down two-hundred fifty bucks for yet another machine. . ." Anyway, if anybody has got advice regarding why I should or shouldn't get this particular 4-track, please speak up. Because I know nothing about recording. (Which brings us to the actual point of this post.) In fact, I'm looking for a book that will help me out. The internet is great, but I can get a lot more from a single bound, complete work that from scattered articles. So I need advice on a book on home recording that starts with the extreme basics but eventually goes far enough that one could use its advice to, like I said, record a low-fi album. (Hey, Neutral Milk Hotel's first big album was made on a four-track. And just look where they are now! Oh, wait. . . Well, regardless, In The Aereoplane Over The Sea was freaking awesome.) I glanced at Home Recording for Dummies online, but I'm not sure if it focuses completely on "modern recording techniques" like digital, or if it goes into analog tracking as well.
Whew. There I go. So more succinctly, I'm a complete recording novice who has an idea of the recorder he wants but needs a book to tell him what he's doing. Any advice?
-ravienne
Recently, I wrote a song that, in my opinion and that of my close friend's, is (to be blunt) the shiznaught. Granted, we were not completely in our right minds at the time I picked to reveal the song to my friend, but regardless, he took it and started writing a guitar part for it. Since then, I've written several other songs that have potential, at least in my own little self-deluded world. Anyway, the point of my post is this: I'm a singer. I sing. I know nothing about recording. But I want to get these babies down on tape, get together some musician friends of mine, make a record. Not a spiffed-up, clean-cut album by any means, but just five or six songs that I can send to a CD duplication place, put in paper sleeves, and hand out in front of the campus union or something. Let people know I exist, and that, if they have the same warped sense of reality that I do, they might be able to enjoy my ideas.
So I'm looking at four-tracks. I'm thinking pretty seriously about the Tascam 414mkII, because it's cheap enough that a poor college student like me can afford it, if I save up, and because it looks like I could use it for a while. As in, I could maybe actually make a lo-fi album with it in the future, instead of saying, "Hmm, this MF-P01 was good for getting my ideas down before I forgot them, but now I want to make something actually listenable, so I guess I'll go plunk down two-hundred fifty bucks for yet another machine. . ." Anyway, if anybody has got advice regarding why I should or shouldn't get this particular 4-track, please speak up. Because I know nothing about recording. (Which brings us to the actual point of this post.) In fact, I'm looking for a book that will help me out. The internet is great, but I can get a lot more from a single bound, complete work that from scattered articles. So I need advice on a book on home recording that starts with the extreme basics but eventually goes far enough that one could use its advice to, like I said, record a low-fi album. (Hey, Neutral Milk Hotel's first big album was made on a four-track. And just look where they are now! Oh, wait. . . Well, regardless, In The Aereoplane Over The Sea was freaking awesome.) I glanced at Home Recording for Dummies online, but I'm not sure if it focuses completely on "modern recording techniques" like digital, or if it goes into analog tracking as well.
Whew. There I go. So more succinctly, I'm a complete recording novice who has an idea of the recorder he wants but needs a book to tell him what he's doing. Any advice?
-ravienne
