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newengineer13
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I have recently aquired my first hard disk recorder (zoom 1608) after using the ps-04 for a little while I have a couple bands that i play in (one a standard ramones three chord punk garage band, and one a more musically intricate group of celt folk pop and punk rock music)
I want to use the garage band to record some of our old songs to get my feet wet in the recording aspects of things so i'll know a litlte bit when we decide to record the other group.
I know that they will be two completely different animals but i figured i had to start somewhere. To make a long story short i have a lot of different gear, and i am wondering since purchasing the zoom 1608 (the only reason being that it could record eight tracks at once IE: live drums) and was planning on just exporting the raw tracks into my computer and tweaking everything in mixdown in cubase i have version vst edition 4.5 or soemthing old like that, and planned to aquire le in the near future as i like the set up cubase has.
I own several other pieces of gear and recently went out and my band put a set of c.a.d. drum mics (which i am told for our budget right now is a solid choice) on layaway so we will be able to record live drums and i'm getting long winded so i'll wind down.
I am wondering if it would be worth exporting the files into cubase to mix down with all the bells and whistles or use all the effects that the machine came with.
I have a senheiser e609 which i was told is good for micing guitar cabinets. I have an inexpensive stageworks mic not sure of specs other than xlr capable so phantom power is a must, and a couple more throwaway radio shack mics, a sampson c01 condenser, a phonic mm1202a mixer, and an applied research and technology preamp among a couple other mics for my accordion. I am planning on picking up a couple sure sm57's and maybe a 58. With all this gear running a pc windows xp pentium 4 with 512 ram and 80 gig harddrive with a soundblaster 2 audigy platnium soundcard, i am wondering if going the computer route would be the way to approach things from a strictly mixdown standpoint.
The Zoom has alot of features after reading the manual, but with everythign internal it's hard for me to understand when others are referencing thigns like sweeping and cutting and boosting or khz (i think i have that down) i also have picked up the starter recording book series by booby owsinksi (recording and mixing) and have learned alot and a few of the articles that i read on here in mixing 101 have helped alot as well.
In other owrds would it be wiser for me to run the zoom into the mixer for mixing abilities likes gates for instance to cut down on bleed when recording drums (i'm not even sure it has that capability but i spoke with a guy at a studiuo who explained them to me in regards to me telling him i wanted to record live drums and afterwards i got nervous in reference to bleeding ect...) any help would be very kind and i hope to learn much more than i have in just the few mnintues i have read some of the other posts. only my second post so thanks in advance.
I want to use the garage band to record some of our old songs to get my feet wet in the recording aspects of things so i'll know a litlte bit when we decide to record the other group.
I know that they will be two completely different animals but i figured i had to start somewhere. To make a long story short i have a lot of different gear, and i am wondering since purchasing the zoom 1608 (the only reason being that it could record eight tracks at once IE: live drums) and was planning on just exporting the raw tracks into my computer and tweaking everything in mixdown in cubase i have version vst edition 4.5 or soemthing old like that, and planned to aquire le in the near future as i like the set up cubase has.
I own several other pieces of gear and recently went out and my band put a set of c.a.d. drum mics (which i am told for our budget right now is a solid choice) on layaway so we will be able to record live drums and i'm getting long winded so i'll wind down.
I am wondering if it would be worth exporting the files into cubase to mix down with all the bells and whistles or use all the effects that the machine came with.
I have a senheiser e609 which i was told is good for micing guitar cabinets. I have an inexpensive stageworks mic not sure of specs other than xlr capable so phantom power is a must, and a couple more throwaway radio shack mics, a sampson c01 condenser, a phonic mm1202a mixer, and an applied research and technology preamp among a couple other mics for my accordion. I am planning on picking up a couple sure sm57's and maybe a 58. With all this gear running a pc windows xp pentium 4 with 512 ram and 80 gig harddrive with a soundblaster 2 audigy platnium soundcard, i am wondering if going the computer route would be the way to approach things from a strictly mixdown standpoint.
The Zoom has alot of features after reading the manual, but with everythign internal it's hard for me to understand when others are referencing thigns like sweeping and cutting and boosting or khz (i think i have that down) i also have picked up the starter recording book series by booby owsinksi (recording and mixing) and have learned alot and a few of the articles that i read on here in mixing 101 have helped alot as well.
In other owrds would it be wiser for me to run the zoom into the mixer for mixing abilities likes gates for instance to cut down on bleed when recording drums (i'm not even sure it has that capability but i spoke with a guy at a studiuo who explained them to me in regards to me telling him i wanted to record live drums and afterwards i got nervous in reference to bleeding ect...) any help would be very kind and i hope to learn much more than i have in just the few mnintues i have read some of the other posts. only my second post so thanks in advance.