what are you using to record?

i hear you guys talkin about how u use your pc mic to record. what web sites do you use to record onto? i would like to try my hand at recording.. but dont know how

I use one of these


you can upload onto
www.soundclick.com or
www.songramp.com

:eek: *stairs blankley at screen*

dude.. that is the baddest setup i have ever seen.... i bow before you in humbleness....


ummm, you think i can barrow your less paul by chance? :D


oh, and thanks for the links :)

They come in at about 15K

Well, it will do 40 simultaneous in/outs at 24/48 or 20 at 24/96 (hence the desk full of pres) as well as having a bazillion channels of midi.

Not your average studio in a box.

And for another 2k you get video capabilities two !

That's a very cool looking setup there. My question is how the hell do you keep it so clean? Is it always that clean?

dust causes crackles and pops so it gets either vacuumed away or blown off with a can of compressed air.

I've got a full studio setup, but to tell ya the truth, it hardly gets used.
Most of the stuff I've been recording was done from within the computer.
fer instance.... the recordings below were done right from within my old Mac G3 (a 1997 computer) using Cubase and just virtual instruments like Absynth, Pro52 and B4.

http://s93744050.onlinehome.us/mp3/Orbit.mp3
http://s93744050.onlinehome.us/mp3/CovertOperation.mp3
http://s93744050.onlinehome.us/SchmangeOnline/Maya.mp3

... without any loops....

http://s93744050.onlinehome.us/SchmangeOnline/MayaNoEffects.mp3


The guitars are straight line in and then put through Amplitube.
Everything else is loops, virtual synths and drum machines.

The only time I use the actual studio space is when I'm doing vocals, acoustic guitar or pulling out a drum kit to get some specific drum rolls.

Guess what I'm saying is that you don't need a whole load of crap to do recordings. These days, you can record 128 tracks using just your computer.
It doesn't even have to be the latest greatest thing on the market either...
my G3 is 9 years old and the only update I did was add a G4 CPU and increase the ram to 768mb.

dude, you can record stuff with a wax cylinder, a needle and a yoghurt pot, but Im sure as hell not gona swap !

huh?
maybe my point got lost or whatever but I just wanted to emphasize that these days, all you need is a computer, a mixer and a bunch of VST instruments in order to record stuff.
The only thing you need a studio for is to record vocals, acoustic guitar or any acoustic intruments. You can do an entire album these days just sitting in front of a computer monitor.

I just have a mic set up in front of my amp which goes into my computer. And that's that. It sounds awful, but it's more just so I remember how my songs sound.

Well no not really. I don't just want to record two tracks at a time...hence the setup !

I want 20+ simultaneous ins at 24/96 for recording bands / orchestras / stage productions with real drum kits and real instruments. If people want to then overdub really detailed stuff like critical vocals then they can come to my place and overdub using the Avalon or the Focusrite with a LDC.

This affords much more flexibility in terms of what I can do. And if I need portability I can pack up the desk and an MOTU interface or two, pick up my mic locker and powerbook and go record outside via firewire !

Alway's looking for an excuse to show off that studio of your, huh Doc.. ha ha :p

That's ok, because I'm about to make you very jealous..... right :rolleyes:

Nice !!!


What's in the rack ? I can see a power-conditioner and a Peavey something or other !!

The rack has a furman power conditioner, Peavey Rock Master guitar preamp, and a Behringer Ultra-Curve DEQ2496 EQ. My signal chain is crazy from my guitar to my computer. It goes as follows:

Guitar ---> MXR 6 band EQ pedal ---> Peavey Rock Master ---> PODxt for cab and mic sims only ---> left and right in on DEQ using different EQ curves for each channel ---> left and right out to channel 1 & 2 of Tascam 424 panned hard left and hard right and used to set levels ---> RCA in on soundcard ---> recording a stereo track in Sonar PE 4.

It's a wild chain, but damn does it sound good! I'll e-mail you something I did the other day, so be on the look out for it.

i'm just starting this recording and i try to do it with my portable mp3 players microphone, adn it sound's so horrible that i can't even imagine it

Here's a shot of my little setup. I just reconfigured it a bit.

nice, when did you get the schecter?

Today, at about 7pm or so. It's one sweet axe.

sheeeeet mang! i want some of thoes mother f-in toys