Re: recommendations on recording (part 2)

In article <1181768981.458172.218840@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Guncho <cgunter@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jun 13, 3:04 pm, Squier <squ...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <1181743970.716645.309...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Guncho <cgun...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:





On Jun 12, 6:36 pm, Squier <squ...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
well in my initial post I forgot to mention something
that might complicate (or perhaps facilitate?) matters -
I also now have something called Bias DECK which is essentially
a software track editor with all sorts of effects and it lets
you take the tracks from the multi-track recorder and download
them to the computer and then you can do all sorts of things
with the tracks (effects, EQ.. whatever) and then use a mixer
interface with little fader bars.. etc and mix then down into
a cd ready stereo AIF or WAV audio file. (44.1 khz 16bit)

So.. what the heck.. if I use all these effects things
then I could never have it sound that way live even though
it might make for a better recorded song (??)

When I started I thought you just put the mic up
to your cab and recorded it and then put on the
headphones and listened to the guitar and then
recorded another vocal track onto the recorder
through the mic. The headphones are supposed to
be closed ones so the guitar sound won't bleed through
as I am vocalizing (I hesitate to call it singing).

arggh! I guess there are gonna be 2 sorts of recommendations -
the studio engineer way of doing it and the straight up musician
way of doing it. I am getting lost in what should be a simple thing
although everything is simple until you actually do it.
help!

Why don't you just record with the hard drive thing to see what
happenens?

Chris

Well if there was no internet that is what I would do.
But it makes sense to make use of a resource such as the
internet and a group here like alt.guitar to try to get
advice and help. Anyone call 'roll their own' and trudge
through and make mistakes and trial and error.. etc...
but with some advice from some experienced people here it
can only serve to help me. That's what people are here for.

There are so many variables and mistakes that I am going
to make along the way - it is nice to be able to have advice
that might have me avoid some so I can not stumble as much.- Hide quoted text -

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It seems to me that you've had all the advice you need to record one
track of guitar and one track of vocals.

I'll summarize:

Recording guitar : Point microphone at speaker, record.
Recording vocals: Point microphone at mouth, record.

Sorry I'm just being a ***.

:)

Chris


nah - you're not being a dickhead. That's what I should do. plain and simple.
But it seems when things seem that simple there's a whole lot
more to it than that - so was just looking for any voices of
experience that would let me know any of the little details that a novice
has a hard time figuring out. The basics (like you said) are
easy - point mic and record. That's ok Gunhco - if it was that
easy to just point and mic and everything sounds great then
a lot of studios would be out of business (actually maybe now
that consumer level recording stuff is affordable maybe those trips
to the local recording studio aren't as frequent as they once were)
.