Alright musicians, got your own tracks & want to show em off??? Just post them here. Need help on anything related to recording? this is the right place to be!

Let start this thing off, what soundcard are you guys using?

I'm using Audigy 2 ZS, not the perfect soundcard for recording tho. Kills part of your tone imho.



This post has been edited by led_zep_freak: May 31 2005, 01:52 PM

so what is a good beginner soundcard, something for single input recording? is the audigy 2 can do for this purpose? what about the audigy?

how about recording ideas/riff when u r away from your pc/laptop? maybe a digital sound recorder? im thinkin of gettin one of those creative mp3 players with recording functions?

This post has been edited by kimi: May 31 2005, 12:40 PM

ah fk....
i thought you were posting an article on home recording

Oh lol... I do have this Computer Music Guitarist Special issue, mostly stuff you already know tho'. Sorry for the misleading title, I'ill rename it.

The audigy's good for playback/gaming but definitely not the ideal soundcard for recording. I would consider E-MU or M-Audio if I were you.

If you only need to record a single input, the audigy 2 or any other modern soundcard for that matter would suffice...the actual quality of the analogue-digital conversion would be subjective to anyone.
What I think is that the quality of the input sources that is more important. Try as hard as you may, but a RM10,000 PRS guitar would definitely sound better than a RM800 Strat copy.

I find that MP3 players with the line-in function are great tools for musicians, especially instrumentalists...gone are the days when you would crack your head trying to remember that fantastic riff you made up the other day...BUT if you plan to record an electric guitar straight into an MP3 player's input, you have to be aware that the line-in of the MP3 player is suited for only low impendance line-level inputs (i.e. keyboards, dynamic mics). If you plug your guitar straight in, there would be slight distortion on the recording as the guitar's output is high-impendance. You can use a DI box to solve this. But hey, if its only riffs you want to record, who cares about a little distortion =)

Have fun!

but u wont be carrying your DIbox tgt with ure mp3 player right?
soundcards are just too expensive imo.... im not willing to fork out 6-800 on a good rocording soundcard
much rather get some recorder that can connect through USB...

yeah i was thinking in the line that the mp3 player with mic recording or digital sound recorder to capture a melody, riff or anything in its raw form, maybe vocal hum as well

as for recording on PC, what would be a good beginner hardware setup? maybe usb or firewire not to clutter the inside of pc, plus can use on different pc or laptop?

yes, you can buy a *ahem* software in a famous plaza that simulates a guitar amp --> you'll have your good guitar sound from your PC

then buy another *ahem* software to record (audacity, cakewalk, sonar, guitartracks, etc etc...)

oh shit.... Pix got the msian "piracy fever"

i'm one of you now !!

saya pun, saya boleh !

ROFL!!
Forget piracy man, police are raiding like hell these few months & the prices probably went sky high.

*ahem* Bittorent!

i think piracy will always be part of msia...
if not those ehbengs will lose their jobs and go amok

They could still modify cars for other Ah Bengs.

And of course, if worse comes to worst, there's still Weng Kin. Heard he went back to form6, is it true?

This post has been edited by led_zep_freak: May 31 2005, 04:32 PM

weng kin not ahbeng la
yea he went back to form 6.... no point doing SAMwhen ure still unclear which path u wanna take
u know la the fella.... blur blur wan

lol it's not that lar, we used to ask him what he was gonna do after SPM & he kept answering "Sell VCDlar". One of my classmates almost bought his story.

lol
why am i not surprise

U can use normal (recent) soundcard
with line-in support

use Audio jack converter (big to small) to connect your jack from your amp / effect to PC

my recording hardware n software

instrument - guitar
soundcard - gametheater XP
drum/bass tracks - fruityloops producer
mixing - adobe audition (used to be cooledit pro)

sounds ok-ok la

modd > fruity loops has this bass synthetizer ? woaaww.. cool...

anybody knows a "plug-in" or a software that modify the sound of the guitar to be like a bass ?

Pix: you can use any plugin with a pitch-shifting feature. just set it to shift down 1 octave... but i've never got satisfactory bass sound from that. yep, fruityloops has got a cool bass plugin. when i get home, i can direct you to which plugins in fruityloops you can use to generate realistic bass guitar sounds.