Recording questions

Alan Michael · Post by **Alan Michael** » 30 Oct 2000 11:12 pm

I'm interested in making some home recordings of my practice sessions playing along with rythym tracks, but I want to make a better quality sound track than just playing directly into a microphone. What's the best way to go about this without breaking the bank. Would an inexpensive mixer do the job. Any suggestions on makes or models or an on-line source. Much appreciated.

John Lacey · Post by **John Lacey** » 31 Oct 2000 7:17 am

Alan, if you can patch your steel AND your rhythm tracks into a mixer of some sort, you could record them. Look around for a used cassette 4-track machine, by Tascam or Yamaha, for instance, that has a mixer built into them. You should be able to pick one up for a few hundred dollars or so, and the recording quality is quite good on them. If you want to spend more money, jumping up to the digital world will get you better sonic quality.

Luke Nelson · Post by **Luke Nelson** » 31 Oct 2000 7:43 am

You might also try talking to Frank Gwin
over at "Northland Sound" (Lemon Creek), he's
very in-the-loop on this sort of thing.

Jim Baron · Post by **Jim Baron** » 31 Oct 2000 8:24 am

Would recommend you look at version 9 of Band in a Box. It now has the capability of making one track of digital audio, so you can then listen to what you sounded like as you played along with the rhythm.
E-mail me for more info.

Alan Michael · Post by **Alan Michael** » 31 Oct 2000 5:15 pm

Thanks for the input everybody. I like that BIAB idea. Think I'll research it. Thanks for the local info Luke. Didn't know there were other Forum members in this one horse town. I've been a member for only a short while. Welcome aboard, it's a great information resource.

Ole Dantoft · Post by **Ole Dantoft** » 1 Nov 2000 2:04 am

Alan,
If you want to consider the idea of using your computer for recording, try and check out this site :
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/

It contains lots of software for multitrack recording on the PC, among lots of other stuff.

Bevare that some programs are demo's, some are shareware while others are completely free !! And also bevare that some of these programs require ALOT of computer-power to run properly.

Ole