Guide to Using Your Computer To Record Your Guitar

[kimball492]

Good stuff Bargeloops , great that you put some of your work on here too .liked piano in first track some of the melodies where great
.The vocal in track two was good.Have you tried Slate Digital Virtual Mix Tack on your vocals. It'll bring Your vocal more up front , give it more presence too. It's free to try give it a go let me know your thoughts . If you load virtual mix rack before loading and racks select presets try the airy vocals http://youtu.be/Eci4nqyGUu0. As with any presets there just a starting point. Have fun
Thanks for sharing your music
Kimball
P.s try the wave vocal rider too if you haven't but just loving the slate digital,presently

[kimball492]

Here some thoughts on the different types of recording software

http://www.thedawstudio.com/Gear/What-Is-A-DAW.html


http://www.pro-tools-expert.com/home...thumbs-up.html

[bargeloobs]

Good stuff Bargeloops , great that you put some of your work on here too .liked piano in first track some of the melodies where great
.The vocal in track two was good.Have you tried Slate Digital Virtual Mix Tack on your vocals. It'll bring Your vocal more up front , give it more presence too. It's free to try give it a go let me know your thoughts . If you load virtual mix rack before loading and racks select presets try the airy vocals http://youtu.be/Eci4nqyGUu0. As with any presets there just a starting point. Have fun
Thanks for sharing your music
Kimball
P.s try the wave vocal rider too if you haven't but just loving the slate digital,presently

I watched the demo vid on that virtual rack, it sounded like they were getting really good results alright, unfortunately since we've moved house we've lost our unlimited internet access so I have to watch what I download and couldn't really justify grabbing a demo that in all reality I'd never buy. I couldn't see myself spending $200 on a plugin...ever.

[kimball492]

Yeah it's amazing what we all spend money on at times . Some I never use others I use all the time. Here's loads of free ones might help you . Was using logic yesterday I love it it's great for laying ideas down and sequencing . But for recording audio I love Pro tools. I wish someone would put the best of all of the Daws into one package . Mind you Kenny Gioia a pro producer and mixer now reckons the $60.00 Reaper is the best currently. Here's some freebies for you to check out .
http://www.hometracked.com/2007/01/1...vocal-plugins/

Here's a great site for tips ideas etc for logic
http://logic-pro-expert.com

[DrNomis_44]

My home studio setup is as follows,

Computers:
I5 3.3Ghz Quad Core Desktop PC, Running Windows 7 Home Premium 64Bit with 4Gb DDR3 Ram.

G4 Macintosh with Dual 500Mhz CPU, Running OS X Panther With 2Gb Ram .

Audio Interfaces:

X1 Focusrite Saffire Pro 40 (Firewire).

X1 Digidesign Digi002. (Firewire).

X1 Digidesign Digi001. (PCI Card Interface).


Software:

Image Line FL Studio 11 Producer Edition, 32 and 64Bit versions.

Ableton Live 9.1 64 Bit.

Reason 5.

Reaper 4.76 64Bit.


ProTools LE 6.4 (Running on my Mac G4 with the Digi001).



I'd definitely recommend getting a Focusrite Audio Interface if/when you can afford them since the preamps sound great.


I like my Focusrite Saffire Pro 40 since I've had relatively few issues with it apart from two of the inputs not working as they were supposed to (turned out to be a couple of loose plugs on the PCB which I fixed myself), the Saffire Pro 40 has 8 Line inputs, two of them double as mic inputs, there are also 8 line outputs, midi in/out, Spdif in/out, optical in/out, two separate headphone outs with independent level controls, I've got version 3.3 (I think) of Saffire Mix Control installed, this enables you to use the Saffire Pro 40 in standalone mode without connecting it to a PC.


I've also purchased a $60.00 license for Reaper, haven't done much with it yet cause I'm still getting my head round it, but I have to say that I agree that it is great value for money, interestingly, I found out that Reaper was created by some ex Avid Digidesign employees who apparently didn't like Digidesign's business model, I think the Reaper team's business model is great, loads of respect to them, if you're looking for a good DAW for your studio then check out Reaper.


Oh yeah, if you're looking for somewhere to upload your audio demos, check out Soundcloud.com, they offer three plans, one plan is free just to get you started, then they offer two paid for plans.

[kimball492]

Hey Dr Nomis , good to hear from you . I have a focusrite amongst others ,great preamps for recording guitars. I use logic for sequencing getting ideas down quick, Pro tools 11.3 for vocals and editing . Reaper is small fast and a great bargain.

If you'd like free for 7 days loops beats samples try this place it was listed on pro tools expert site
https://www.audioblocks.com/freemusi...m_medium=email

Dr Nomis have you tried pro tools 11.3 great update gives you Acess to loads more memory and it's faster makes computers,especially older ones have new lease of life.

[DrNomis_44]

Hey Dr Nomis , good to hear from you . I have a focusrite amongst others ,great preamps for recording guitars. I use logic for sequencing getting ideas down quick, Pro tools 11.3 for vocals and editing . Reaper is small fast and a great bargain.

If you'd like free for 7 days loops beats samples try this place it was listed on pro tools expert site
https://www.audioblocks.com/freemusi...m_medium=email

Dr Nomis have you tried pro tools 11.3 great update gives you Acess to loads more memory and it's faster makes computers,especially older ones have new lease of life.

Haven't tried ProTools 11.3 since my Mac is an old G4 (circa 1999) and won't run any of the later version of OS X past Tiger (OS X 10.4.11), my PC should be able to run ProTools 11 though, unfortunately it's probably going to cost me a bit to buy ProTools 11 for my PC, might consider doing it when my funds permit as I'll then be able to use my Saffire Pro 40 with my Digi002, I'll have to buy a good PCI card with Firewire ports on it as well since I only have one Firewire port on my PC's motherboard.


I've been interested in producing PsyTrance music on my PC using FL Studio 11 Producer Edition, here's a link to a PsyTrance track I made and uploaded to my soundcloud account:

https://soundcloud.com/drnomis_44/in...nce-mix-master

[kimball492]

DrNomis Avid are doing an upgrade and 12 months updates , from certain old versions of Pro tools for $199.00 instead of $800.00
Worth a buy if you have an applicable old version.

Kimball

[DrNomis_44]

DrNomis Avid are doing an upgrade and 12 months updates , from certain old versions of Pro tools for $199.00 instead of $800.00
Worth a buy if you have an applicable old version.

Kimball

Cool, I'll have to check that out, I wonder if ProTools LE 6.4 is one of the qualifying old versions?, if it is, I might see if I can get the PC version of ProTools 11, might help me in the VET Music course I'll be doing at uni this year as they're running ProTools.


Cheers for that mate.

[keloooe]

Hey Kimball, I'm currently in an acoustic band and I would be interested to use some of my pedals in the recordings, can I just mike the axe, then reamp it with the rig?

Also, currently I'm using Garageband (*cough* on my phone *cough*) to get the tracks recorded, then sent out to Music Creator 6 (nice DAW for the price!) for editing. Currently too low on $$$ for mics and interfaces