recording help

[Root]

i have never recorded before, but want to. I want something that i can record and be able to make cds with. if there such a thing. i am going to go to guitar center and see if the can help me but does anyone have any suggestions. just want a pritty good sound

[pinseeker]

I always record from my Makie soundbaord into my PC sound card. Or I Plug my guitar strait into my sound card. I used to use Cool Edit Pro or Sound Forge to do my recordings. But now a days I've discoverd Nuendo. Nuendo is a full recording studio at the palms of your hands. You can edit the piss out of your music. after i finalize my recordings in Nuendo I then use T-Racks. T-Racks has a really good Tube compressor and Multiband Limiter. This program really help warm your recording. Probably the most important thing about recording is getting your levels set correctly. Dont break past the gqain. You can alway record a little below gain and then readjust it later. Hope this helps.

[Root]

that sounds great, so do you record vocals the same way. I have a amp that you can hook up a mic and a guitar(california blond). I guess i maybe could hook that up to my sound card and do like you said with the computer program. I will give it a try tommarow. I am so ready to record, I got some of my own songs and have never heard myself play them. I think that if i record i could make my songs sound better.

thanks for the help, can't wait to get started

[DaveHead36]

Computer is the way to go these days. Like pinseeker said, make sure your levels are good. Just make sure your sound card is capable of doing the recordings you're wanting to do. Depending on how much you want to spend, what I did was bought a little Tascam 4 track cassette recorder and a stand alone cd recorder/copier. Here are the benefits of it: - You get a nice warm analog sound. You're limited to 4 tracks, but you can bounce tracks down and get a lot more (remember that the Beatles recorded Sgt Pepper on only 4 tracks). You can also flip the tape over and do backwards guitar or vocals. Once you are ready to burn to cd, you take the rca out of the 4track and run it into the cd recorder. You have to manually create your cd, but it's part of the fun. Then once you finalize your cd you can make as many copies as you want of your new cd. It adds a bit of old school recording process to your work and there are many different things you can do. I don't do that much any more because I've been working with Cool Edit Pro and the computer realm, but every once in a while I'll go back to my "roots" and record like that. But either way is good. Just some different options for you. Main thing is just have fun in what you do. Btw, Nuendo is the bomb! It's basically everything ProTools is, but designed by engineers like Phil Ramone, and you don't have to buy all the extra acessories like with Pro Tools. Nuendo is slowly becoming industry standard. If you can find it cheap, then get it.

DH36

[Root]

cool, I am going to try all of this, but alittle unsure of how to do it all, because this is all so new to me. but it sound like so much fun to make a song and to make it just the way you want it.

thanks so much, i got a lot of work to do