Re: Recording system for student
- From: DeeAa <aepheikki@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:19:21 -0700 (PDT)
On 27 maalis, 05:39, Michael Dobony <sur...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:10:49 -0400, John O wrote:
"Sean Conolly" <sjconolly...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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John O <johnospama...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
My son has been making multitrack recordings, playing all the instruments
himself. He's using the sound card built into an Intel mobo, Audacity,
quadraverb, a pile of cable adapters and an old EV ND-467. I know, you're
all wincing and cringing. Actually, the recording are not too bad for
just
messing around and sharing with his friends.
He's good at this, so I'd like to get him a basic system that will sound
better and be easier for multitrack recording. Budget isn't big, maybe
$300.
There must be something reasonable in that range, right?
Get him a better soundcard, and a cheap entry-level mixing console. And
whatever monitors he has, get better ones as soon as you have more money.
Or at least some decent headphones.
Sean
Lots to chew on here, and great advice! The easy stuff: we have good phones,
music is blues/rock and whatever he makes up. He's primarily a drummer,
agree he needs a better mic or two for that. He can use the quardaverb for
guitar effects, or whatever.
I was thinking Audacity was a kludge for this type of work, but maybe not!
I'll check out Reaper and N-Track anyway. Soundcard is a good idea, and he
needs a basic mixer. Mic, soundcard, software, mixer.
You might be able to do both sound card and mixer at once by buying a USB
mixer that bypasses the built in sound card.
Very good, I have lots to work with. This is his stuff. Is it accessible
without a facebook account?http://www.ilike.com/artist/Eric+Oliphant
-John O
Yep I'd go for something like that. And true; many soundcards come
with Cubase LE for instance which is a really good program already. I
use it on my laptop. At any rate with a decent external soundcard that
has gain setting and pad and Phantom power and fx loop/monitor output
you don't really need ANY other mixer whatsoever if the card just has
enough inputs.
Stay far away from Behringer, Alto and such stuff. Trust me. I use a
behri mixer but only on monitoring and even there you can easily hear
it's utter crap. Just get a nice Presonus, M-Audio or so USB
soundcard, preferably with more than 2 inputs, and a pair of decent
CONDENSER mics like Samson C01 or something, a cheap kickdrum mic and
an SM58 or 57 and the DAW program.
I recently bought a flightcase with 2xC01 and a Samson QKick and 2
SM57 copies plus three tomtom mics for under $50 used and they're
quite good enough for recording drums.
Of course, if you're willing to bend laws, there'¨s a gazillion pieces
of cracked software about in the net you can leech for free, but
that'd be stealing.
Cheers,
Dee
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