I probably don't have any really useful advice or anything, but let's see here. I use FL Studio to program drum tracks and then I do the actual recording and mixing in Adobe Audition. My main method of input now is plugging my guitar or bass into my foot pedal, and then my foot pedal actually has a USB out port that I can plug directly into my computer, so that's pretty cool. I used to record stuff by just sticking my computer mic up to my amp (I still have to use the computer mic for my acoustic guitar).

Anyway, I'm still learning how to record and mix songs. My stuff now certainly doesn't sound professional or anything, but if you listen to some of my older submissions and some newer ones, there's been definite improvement.

Juja said

I probably don't have any really useful advice or anything, but let's see here. I use FL Studio to program drum tracks and then I do the actual recording and mixing in Adobe Audition. My main method of input now is plugging my guitar or bass into my foot pedal, and then my foot pedal actually has a USB out port that I can plug directly into my computer, so that's pretty cool. I used to record stuff by just sticking my computer mic up to my amp (I still have to use the computer mic for my acoustic guitar).

Anyway, I'm still learning how to record and mix songs. My stuff now certainly doesn't sound professional or anything, but if you listen to some of my older submissions and some newer ones, there's been definite improvement.

What foot pedal do you use? Thanks.

It's a brand I had never heard of before. It's a 'Zoom' foot pedal, and I guess the model number would be 'G2.1u' Anyway, I just bought what ever was available at the store that could plug directly into the computer. Luckily, it's worked out pretty well so far.

i have been looking at the pedal on this link its a looping pedal but do u think because of the memory card you could do recordings and move them to a computer

http://guitars.musiciansfriend.com/product/DigiTech-JamMan-Looper-Pedal?sku=156600

Yeah, that pedal looks pretty schweet to me. It even has a USB output port, so you could plug directly into the computer.

I'm surprised Auriplane hasn't commented in this section yet. She knows quite a bit about this stuff.

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Hehe um.

Juja, I wasn't going to comment because BooDoo said he was on Windows, and I'm on a Mac, so I didn't think it would be really useful. I guess I can do the roll call thing though since you keep bugging me to do it ;-)

I record my guitar and bass through a Tonebone tube preamp, through my Bass Podxt, through a crappy Behringer 16-channel mixer, to my Edirol USB audio-midi interface, which is connected to my Mac. I use Logic Pro 7 to record and mix. I really like Logic!! But there are many excellent programs, most of which don't require a mac. So, I'm not about to say "go out and get a mac" if you don't want to spend the money on it.

As far as other stuff, lately I mainly use my Nord Lead 3 for synth sounds, and my Nord Electro 2 for pianos and organs. For drums I use Natural Drum Kit with Halion Player, and for strings/harps I use Garritan Personal Orchestra in Kontakt. Everything going in through the mixer also has stereo returns through my multi-effects rack, and I also have a pair of condenser mics (though only one is hooked up). NDK and GPO are highly recommended, especially NDK!! NDK is probably THE best value-to-dollar ratio I've ever spent on ANYTHING soundwise. It's a 20GB drum sample library, and people keep asking me if my drums are real whenever I use it.

So that's about it. I also have a Fizmo, Sidstation, Ms2000, 909, a PC88MX, QS6, and 303, an electric kazoo, and an electric viola. All of those go through the mixer. The PC88MX is my MIDI controller, and it goes in through the Edirol interface, so I can record all the MIDI notes I play, then it goes back out through a MIDI splitter to the rest of my synths (so there isn't latency from daisy chaining). As far as VST/AU plugins on my computer, besides NDK and Garritan I also use Quadrasid (highly recommended) for C64 sounds and Magical 8-bit plug for NES sounds (this one is free!! Download it!!). I have Plasticz which is okay, and some drum+bass pack that sucks I wish I hadn't spent money on, too. For monitoring I use MDR-V6 headphones, and a pair of Event1 PS6 studio monitors.

For my acoustic-electric I'm recording with the condenser mic panned slightly right, and the pickup slightly left; for everything else I use the setup I described above. I'm new to recording the acoustic-electric though :-)

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Yeah I just found that out today too, lol.

I get by with an old cheap copy of acid music studio. I'm not doing any high end heavy mixing though, so I don't need anything too involved.

im new to recording also I have looked around for some cams. I have a question for webcam users can you change audio inputs when using a webcam? I have a light snake which plugs into my guitar then into the USB port it acts like a sound card and I can record what I play like that Im wondering would it work for a webcam?

I haven't tried using my camera for that yet (though I should get around to it . .) but as long as you can record audio at the same time you use the camera, you should be able to match them up later in a program like Windows Movie Maker.

auriplane said

I haven't tried using my camera for that yet (though I should get around to it . .) but as long as you can record audio at the same time you use the camera, you should be able to match them up later in a program like Windows Movie Maker.

Sorry, I didn't mean that. I'm sure there is. But I don't know anything about it so I refrained from commenting on doing it that way. Hehee

you could always just try it out and see. try windows movie maker and see if it'll record what's running through your speakers as well as the video.

auriplane said

Sorry, I didn't mean that. I'm sure there is. But I don't know anything about it so I refrained from commenting on doing it that way. Hehee

I'm interested too. I've only used my camera for one thing so far (making a really crappy gameplay video). I don't see a mic jack on my camera . . . if that's the best way to do it, I should try to find out about that.