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Excluding the new Mac book pro I am getting and various instruments I play, can I set up a decent home recording studio? What is the best software, mics, monitors, mixers I need to get? I mainly want to do pre-production at home and then work on the music at my friends’ more advanced studios. Any short lists and recommendations are greatly appreciated. Thanks!

heres some basics that you will need:

http://www.zzounds.com/item–FOSMR8MKII

http://www.zzounds.com/item–RODNT1A

http://www.zzounds.com/item–RODSM1

http://www.zzounds.com/item–BIAPEAKLE

I want THE best. My dad told me he’d buy me whichever software I wanted! I’ve been recording music for awhile and I decided I wanted to post some stuff online to see what people thought about it. What’s a good software?
I want something like Garageband that lets you have different instruments so you could record multiple instruments just by using a MIDI keyboard.

flstudio 8 professional edition is amazing. it’s uses are almost limitless and is quite easy to get started with.

it can use midi keyboards and also has it’s own virtual keyboard and drumpad for beats.

plus more..

also it is very compatible with most plug ins

I’ve heard of the "Line 6 Toneport" but thats a little to expensive for me, i would like something that is somewhat high quality with a reasonable price…

Zoom corporation has portable recorders. Look at zzounds.com

http://www.zzounds.com/

Need to know how you post a 50MB audio recording for surfers to purchase via downloading and how I get paid using the net safely.

attach file using e mail, 50mb not a problem with broadband. maybe convert to high quality mp3 using Wavelab or similar software
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My grandpa is getting really old (80 years) and wants to record his personal history to a computer, then have me (his grandson) type it up for him. My question is, what is the best audio recording software that he can use to document his history (free or paid is fine)? It has to be easy to use, and well organized (so like he can add a date and title to each entry) the key here: EASY AND SIMPLE TO USE (he’s old).

Sony’s Acid is a reasonably easy music application to use, if you just want audio.

If you want to convert his audio immediately to TYPED input, I would recommend Dragon Naturally Speaking, tune it for his voice, and plug his memoirs directly into Word.

he can then type a date, a couple enter keys, and record more words.

However, if he’s a good storyteller, you’d probably want to capture the audio anyway for like a voiceover on video/slideshow of his life, for memorabilia after he’s passed on.

As far as recording software,

Audacity is free but not so easy to use. Magix is not expensive, and I’ve found it very versatile, but it’s more for garagebands than for simple audio recording.

It used to work on some music I downloaded, now It won’t let me use a single song i copied from a cd or bought on itunes.

i guess its not in the right format,
i.e. itune music in mp4 or mov format while acid music works only mp3/mpg
so you need to convert the media files

use Format Factory -its a free software to convert media files. It has a user-friendly drag and drop interface,
using it you can
1. convert dvd etc into ipod/iphone, 3gp,quick time format and vice-verca.
2. extract music from a movie
3. convert flv (youtube format) files into .wmv files to edit with Windows Movie Maker etc
4. many other fantastic features.
Download it from here-

http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Graphic/Image-Convertors/FormatFactory.shtml

All Music

Home Recorder

http://www.homerecorder.com

I will not be recording a full band. Just one or two tracks at a time. Also I have a laptop with plenty of memory but am I able to use a laptop or does my computer need to be a desktop. I appreciate the help.

Here’s what I did.

I got a great deal on a laptop at Wal-Mart. It had Vista, unfortunately, so that took a while to optimize and trim the fat and actually make it work well, but whatever, it has 2 gigs of memory, a decent hard drive, over a meg of processor. Good. Step one. Less than 500$.

Step two was getting a USB interface. I found the Lexington Alpha, which I really like. It can record two channels at a time at least at 24-bit 48khz, which is what I record at (which is more than enough for most recording, actually). It has line in, mic in, options to record via headphones, and functions as an external sound card, ie, provides line outs. I think I got it for less than 100$, but it was somewhere around there price-wise.

Step three for you would be getting mics and cables (I already had this stuff). I suggest the Shure SM57 for recording guitar and instruments and the Shure SM58 for vocals and some string instruments (violins, etc). Good quality dynamic mics. Around 100$ each. So at least one mic and some cabling. Oh yeah, and some decent quality headphones. Samson makes some decent ones, I believe, just make sure you get the studio-quality… again, around 100$ at my local music shop.

So now we’re pushing 900$ I think, and we have the basics to do some excellent recording. Add another mic or so, you’re right around a grand, and you can record two mics at once if you wanted, or a guitar and a vocal, or two mics on one instrument, etc.

Using the USB interface is awesome, its portable, has all the quality of a good internal sound card, and all of the same functions. Make sure you get the ASIO drivers for it, though, for the least latency (pause between playing the note and hearing it through your headphones).

So, um, yeah, at this point all you need is the software. I use a multitracking program called Reaper, link below. Essentially free, but cheap to register anyways. If you find or purchase the right plugins it can have all the functionality of more expensive commercial products! As it is its somewhat stripped down, which is perfect for recording, you just need to look for VST plugins to do processing and anything more than basic mixing/mastering, although the included JS and Cuckos plugins are still pretty sweet and highly functional.

So, that’s that. Put down a basic drum track with the MIDI and a VST plugin like Drumatic, set up a second track, hit the record button, make sure the Audio Device is set to pick up inputs from the interface, and you’re ready to rock!

I’ve used this setup exactly as listed to create scratch tracks for the bands that I’ve been in or associated with, and then go through and record over each individual element – ie, familiarize them with their separate parts which are initially recorded scratch or with midi instruments, then have them record over them with the real deal. Makes for some very decent results! And no mic bleed is sooo nice….

So yeah. Links below to Reaper, and to the place I usually look for VSTs and VSTi’s.

There are other multi-tracking programs out there for low-cost or free, like N-Studio and even a free version of Pro Tools I think, but this one actually has full functionality right from the get go, and seems to be very easy to get into once you figure it out. Just don’t get overwhelmed at how configurable it is!

Obviously if you already have a laptop, that leaves more money for better equipment. I like my portable recording setup, I can take it to work and use it on my lunch breaks…. and I don’t need an external mixer, even though I do have one (a cheap Behringer mixer, if you don’t boost or cut anything more than a few db it really does have low noise and decent quality).

Oh yeah, you might want to think about condenser mics too. Some USB interfaces support phantom power, and condenser mics (while more fragile) have superb top end response. I’ve used a Samson CO1 (less than 120$) with good results, especially in conjunction with a dynamic mic like the SM57. Something to think about. If you don’t have any experience with condenser mics or are a recording noob in general, you might want to get some experience with dynamic mics first before you take that leap.

I vastly prefer digital interfaces to analog recorders, even though they have a relatively more pleasant sound. Analog has more noise and far less flexibility in terms of editing, exporting, manipulating the sound, etc. There’s always tape saturation and compression plugins to help warm up the sound, and good mixing practices can really help get "that" sound you may be aiming for. When mixing, for instance, not only do you want to high-pass all non-bass instruments at least at 150 hz (and often much higher… I usually end up high-passing all guitars at 250hz or even 350 hz) but you want to low-pass everything as well at some point, although you want to be a little more careful with that. A bit of roll-off on a guitar around 10khz might be just the ticket to t

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