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Topic: How Do You Record?

I haven't done a whole lot of recording but it is something I would really like to get into now.

I have a condenser mic for acoustic and vocals, I have a Shure SM-57 for micing up my electric. I have a USB audio interface with Cubase LE and for drums I am using Beta Monkey drum loops that I drop into cubase.

As yet, with my recent cellar conversion, I have not really had the time to get everything set up to really give it a good go.

I am hoping that I can achieve some half decent results with this set up though I am totaly new to the whole recording idea and unsure about making soemthing that has been reocrded sound professional!

So how is everyone recording and what results do you get?

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Re: How Do You Record?

what is your 'usb' interface?

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Re: How Do You Record?

I am using a Tascam US-122 at the moment. It is my first audio interface that I have used with a PC

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Re: How Do You Record?

you really ought to consider a reasonable audio mixer as bottom line..you'll finish up here
anyway..the idea is you can plug loads of stuff into it  eg tape decks/dats/cd players/mics/guitars/televisions
synths/drum machines/other computers etc ..in fact anything with an audio o/p and if you've got enough
channels you can leave everything hard wired..so you can record from any source instantly..consider a proper soundcard also(audiophile 2496 or something similar)and use the the analogue ins and outs
these are my preferences (inherited from recording since the 60,s)..other people do it differently and hopefully will contribute to this thread

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