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Old July 5th, 2009, 09:02 PM   #8 (permalink)
jh45gun
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Originally Posted by 64Strat View Post
What is cheap? $100, $1000, $10000? people have different perspectives of "cheap".

You really haven't explained what your recording goals are yet. Demo cd's? produce an album? just messing around?

Is it going to be.....
- just you?
- guitar? electric and acoustic??
- a 5 pc band?
- are you going to be doing whole songs with drums, keys, etc.
- vocals?


Do you have a fairly high performance desktop pc? depending on your goals, you may need a new one to do quality recordings.

Stage mics will work but usually are not as good as large diaphragm condensers, small diaphragm condensers, ribbon mics, etc.

Need good mic preamps. a few audio interfaces have decent preamps, most do not. Your end result will only be as good as your weakest link in the recording chain.

Going to need good recording software. learning curve is steep.

You need to do your own research also, there are some pretty helpful websites out there. For me, Sound On Sound has always been a go to place for quality information.
http://www.soundonsound.com/

And Tweakheadz has this section on home recording rigs....
http://www.tweakheadz.com/rigs.htm
Some one asked me to post at an other forum my guitar playing/singing. I just want to make a simple clip or two of a couple of songs nothing fancy and I do not want to put a bunch of money into it. There must be a reasonable way with guys posting guitar clips and vid clips on the net all the time I have to suspect they are not all spending a ton of money. Right now I need to pay back a small loan of three payments for my PA 100 I just bought before I could spend any money on recording stuff and to be honest I do not want to spend any if I can help it or very little.
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