TopicPosted on 05/08/2005 at 08:00:25Advice Please...
Hey i am wanting to set up a small and cheap home studio and was wondering what i will definately need, I SAID CHEAP....
I already have a Sony Minidisc Deck, a Behringer UB1204-FX-PRO mixer, an acoustic guitar and a Dynamic Cardioid Microphone.
I am planning on recording to minidisc and then transferring to my PC, will i need an amp?(the mixer has preamps etc also..)
Will i need any software, and also what monitors should i buy (Remember CHEAP) i will be recording from; a line out keyboard, an acoustic guitar and a cd player with pre-recorded backing tracks on them.
Also i will be recording instruments played through separate channels.
thanks StudioHead
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2Posted on 05/09/2005 at 05:10:10
Not sure why you'd want to record to the minidisc if you have a computer. You should be able to go straight out of the mixer and into the sound card to record. Probably sound better, too. I'd look at MAudio stuff.
Cheap software- look at PGMusic Power Tracks Pro or Cakewalk Home Studio.
Behringer is making some pretty inexpensive studio monitors these days.
Don't know about the term "stem splitting". I do know it is not possible to split a stereo mix into it's seperate track components, as you earlier post suggested.
A very good article on stems appeared in the September 2004 issue of Electronic Musician http://emusician.com/mag/emusic_divide_conquer/index.html%5Dhere. It's basically just a way of making alternate mixes, but it certainly won't work on a finished stereo mix.
The attach url implementation is a bit kludgey leading to my above post, plus there's no way to edit. I know there's the preview button to prevent these things. A better implementation of the insert url function can be found at the Sonar Forums. Is it possible to adapt to this?