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Author: | cosmobozo [ Thu Nov 20, 2014 3:28 am ] |
Post subject: | Apartment recording setup |
Hey everyone, I use to post on the old sr.com board, I see there's some good advice to be found here as well! I'm thinking of buying a few things to record ideas in an apartment. I'm looking at an amp simulator (the tech 21 sansamp character series seem to be okay, maybe the "blonde" one) + an audio interface with my laptop + some way to program drums (software or a machine?) My criteria are
I basically don't know anything about that stuff, so any advice is good. Software-wise, I think Audacity would cover my needs, but advice is welcome there too. |
Author: | Nyarlathotep [ Thu Nov 20, 2014 11:56 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: Apartment recording setup |
I highly recommend using Reaper as your audio software. It's much more flexible than Audacity and can do multi-track recording should you ever need to do that. It also has great support for measure-based timebase + tempo changes, which is extremely helpful when using programmed drums. Reaper is more complex than Audacity, but actually very easy to use. When I record demos with my band I write up the drums in MIDI, which I load into Reaper and run through Addictive Drums - you can specify the mapping of MIDI notes to drums in AD pretty easily and control all kinds of shit - you can also record the drums on an electronic kit and use that MIDI data to power AD. Addictive Drums is expensive, but there's a lot of options for computer-based drum machines out there that are cheaper (plus, you can always, uh, 'try it out'). There are a lot of freeware drum machines that require you to specify samples - if you do some digging you can probably build a good library and use one of those to play the samples. As for audio interfaces, I really, really like this one: http://www.musiciansfriend.com/multitra ... controller but it's probably overkill. If you just need one input almost anything should work. I used a Lexicon Omega (http://www.musiciansfriend.com/pro-audi ... ing-studio) for a while, and that was decent. Hope this helps! |
Author: | agent of change [ Fri Nov 21, 2014 12:21 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Apartment recording setup |
A good friend also raves about Reaper, and uses an Audiogram interface after hating some others. I haven't rebuilt my own home studio after living out of a van and then a backpack for about 6 years, but when I do this is what I'll aim at. |
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