Recording on Home PC

DanielBM85 · Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 10:23 am Post subject: Recording on Home PC

Hello everyone,
Im intending on doing some recordings with a full group on a home pc, the recordings are not meant to be professional but i would like them to be good quality recordings that can be used as references for song writing and documentation of improv sessions. My current setup is this, i have a nice mixer, im digital outing it into my computer (via a creative Audigy, with face plate interface) and recording in the program Acid Pro 4.0. What suggestions would you have as far as what programs to use to record (as opposed to acid pro), would there be any other software that could be used in conjunction with acid pro, is there any more hardware that would be neccesary? Ive done some casual recordings thus far and quality was low only due to using a very bad microphone for the mix (i was just testing). Im pretty new to recording onto a pc, my only experience was with an old bassist who used a Digi 002 and pro tools. Thanks for the assistance.
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Vintage_Gretsch · Posted: Sat Jun 26, 2004 11:46 pm Post subject: Got some info for you!

I have been doing PC recording for about four years now and you seem to be on the right track so far. You say you have a creative sound card, well i use the same one and that is a great card to use. As far as using acid.....the quality is'nt going to come out that good. I use Acid to sample tempo tracks or (hihat tracks) but then bring those files into (Adobe Audition) or (Cool Edit Pro) these programs are like Pro Tools just easier in my opinion to use. I Have a Mackie 16 channel mixing board, but most any board will work.......but the key to everything is the DELTA 10-10, this allows me to do multi-track recording. What the Delta 10-10 does is it comes with a SPDIF plug-in that works well with any creative sound card, but it just produces 10 in's and 10 out's so that you can do multi track recording..........it seems complicated but it really is an affordable way to have a Pro Studio in you're own home. The Delta you can buy for about $700.
I've kinda' said a lot but please give me some feed back if this at all makes any sense, or if you have any more questions, I would love to help!
Peace-

DanielBM85 · Posted: Tue Jun 29, 2004 6:06 am Post subject:

Im thinking about getting the little desktop standup piece that digi puts out, it includes pro tools and two inputs so i could most likely just run the mixer board into the desk standup.
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