Hey everyone.
I just found this site and all of a sudden it has ruined my work-day ;) Can't stop reading...Ah well..
My question: (I'm not sure if its the right forum or anything, but feel free to yell at me if it is)
I'm a fairly new guitar player. Been playing for little over a year now and enyoing it a lot. Music has helped me in more ways I could imagine.
I play mostly cover songs from rock bands and artists but now I wanted to try and create a song myself.
I kinda have the lyrics down and everything... Anyways... I want to record this yeah, and all I have is a guitar, basicly - and a little amp.
I'm looking for some gear so that I can record with an "OK" sound and listen to it later. This will just be a "studio" (if you can call it that) in my little appartment.
Could you give me some pointers, maybe show me some specific items that I need? Including microphone and all that kind of stuff... Any help would be very very help full... Oh, and I don't have a lot of money so the prices can't be to high up there
Thanks again, and thanks for messing up my monday :P
Cheers
/Jon
do you want to record? if so, you can do that affordably by plugging into your sound cartd and downloading Audacity. Audacity is a free recording software. that's how I started.
microphone. depends what you want to do.. voice? or miking an amp?
a standard mike for studios is a Shure SM57. great for miking instruments and amps. some have said it is good for voice...that is not my experience. the good thing about an SM57 is that it is a dynamic mike; it needs no phantom power. they sell in the 90$ range. I found one on ebay for 75$.
next you may want a mixer. those are handy. they supply phantom power to mikes that need them. like a condenser mike. I would suggest having one of those. between 70 and 100 you can get a nice wide diaphram condenser. great for voice and instruments.
for more info than you could need.
I am planing to use the mic for voice recording...
I'm not sure how my voice sounds like, but nothing sounds good in my mic ;)
Thanks a lot for the info though ;) I'll read up on the sight
If all you're doing is recording yourself so that you can listen to yourself, you can get away with the little computer microphones that come with a lot of computers. I have one that sits on top of my monitor and I did my first couple of recordings using it. I used a freeware audio recorder and did a two track mixdown using iMovie. Cumbersome, clunky and crude, but doable....
Sound quality is nothing to brag about, but it's enough to hear yourself and do "constructive self-criticism", and to start getting a handle on the basics of recording. And given that Audacity is free, if you have a mic like this handy you may be able to get started for no $$.
I started out this way, and then after a while got a jones for a better mic and the realized that I needed a better I/O device to get a decent mic preamp. And I'm still way low down on the learning curve. But getting started really can be cheap and easy.
Thank you.
I was thinking about buying myself a nice mic so that the sound improves a little bit from my current computer mic which isn't very good.
Also think I'll buy a mixer and/or test out A-city.
Thanks for you replies
