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Daami · Joined: 27 May 2003

I'm looking for anyone who does or knows about home recording equipment/ techniques.

Winter's coming and I'm slowly setting myself up for a 3 month lock-in of intruments, composition and recording sessions. Musically I'm fine, but I am pretty darn ignorant when it comes to the technological side of things. I was hoping I could sit down for an afternoon or two and pick someone's brains about it. What equipment do you use? How do you go about recording/ synthesising/ sampling? Would be very grateful for your time...

I'll bring beer.

PM me if you can help. Cheers...

JustJohn · Joined: 18 Oct 2007 Location: Your computer screen

Probably get a couple large diaphragm condenser mics, depending on what you're recording. Easiest way these days is to hook your stuff up to a computer and edit everything that way. If you want more specific answers you need to ask more specific questions though..

Daami · Joined: 27 May 2003

...which is why I stated I would like to sit down for an afternoon with someone who knows more than I. Wink

But thanks for the tip anyway...

I already work from my PC and have some knowledge about what I'm doing, but am looking to expand. If anyone has an afternoon spare, I would appreciate it.

ernie · Joined: 05 Aug 2006 Location: asdfghjk

you probably want to use your computer, so you'll need a decent sound card with multiple ins, and a program like ProTools (find the torrent, don't pay $500!) so that you can multitrack and layer instruments... next, buy some decent mics... next thing i would recommend is a nice preamp... you can make ok sounding stuff with this minimal setup (<$1000)

there are tons of little tricks you can use to make your tracks sound better but there are really no rules except "crap in, crap out", i.e. you can't shine shㅣt so make sure everything sounds good right from the start... at the end of the day, use your ears: if it sounds good, it IS good...

Underwaterbob · Joined: 08 Jan 2005 Location: In Cognito

If you want to record voice get a decent preamp. Keyboards and the like you can just line in since they (usually) have decent preamps in them.

Get a nice dynamic mic for vocals, two condensors for instruments if you can afford it.

I would highly advise getting a nice sound card for your computer. They had some in 낙원상가 for around 30-40만원 last time I was there. Stereo line in quarter inch and xlr plugs.

Korean power is really dirty and there seems be a lot of interference in general. (Speaking from experience and I live in a quite rural area: Chungju) Well-shielded cables are a must.

Software side there are a million options out there but for recording my favorite was always CoolEdit (at least cheaply, protools costs a bundle). Cooledit is a great sound editor and half decent sequencer. Intuitive and easy.

Acid is great for splicing beats and fruityloops for creating them.

A small external mixer would be great as well, but if you are only recording one instrument at a time and not drums then it's not really necessary.

You could probably get set up quite well for 1-1.5 million won.

If you get your software free...

Cheonmunka · Joined: 04 Jun 2004

I bought an E-MU audio interface, so inputs are pre-amped (seperate levels, xlr and 1/4 plug, and the output has a good boom, and it came boxed with Cubase LE studio suite and lots of other goodies like a Proteus synth vst. It cost 130.000 won. So, just plug in with that and away you go. All set up.

faster · Joined: 03 Sep 2006

I record on an Akai DPS-16, through either a soundtracs min-topaz or mackie vlz-3 mixer. I use either a vintage akg condenser, a pair of modded PZMs, or a pair of core-sound binaurals.