Another probably very annoying newbie! Please help!
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Posted on Jan 11, 2008 01:00 am
chezchienne
Member Since: Jan 11, 2008
Hi all! Hoping someone can help me if possible, I have been trying to research this stuff and it is just so overwhelming!
I am looking at getting some home recording gear. Basically I want to be able to record vocal and piano, or just vocal and somehow put that together with backing tracks for my singing students. I was looking at something that is easy to use and that I can understand! I saw the Yamaha MW10 USB mixing studio, and was wondering if that would be suitable for my purposes? I was then thinking of the audio technica condenser mics. The MW10 says it comes with that Cubase LE software, so can someone tell me is there anything else that I would need for recording with this kind of a setup? And will I then throught the cubase program be able to figure out how to burn the recordings to cd?
Any help is much appreciated!
Thanks!
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Jan 11, 2008 01:41 am There are so many options. Your selection is fine, perhaps there are better options and there are certainly worse but it should be good enough. AT2020 or similar should be good enough as well.
Cubase LE is pretty weak I think. I would recommend taking a look at Kristal or Reaper or Audacity. All are free/cheap and do a good job. Cubase is quite complex yet somehow limited at the same time.
With your recording software, once you make a track you save it as WAV then you can burn it to CD using any CD burning software.
check out www.homemadehitshow.com :) (no reason, just a plug)
Keith WarrenMans reach exceeds his graspMember
Since: Oct 23, 2007
Jan 11, 2008 01:51 am Hey, welcome to HRC.
The yamaha MW10 is a good choise, but it may be overkill for your needs in some areas, and leave you wanting more in other areas, like phantom power.
For computer based recording, if you're just using microphones and you're not recording whole bands, I'd suggest the Line 6 Toneport UX-2. It's got phantom power, which you'll need to use condenser microphones, and I believe it comes with recording software.
Here's a link to the TonePort UX-2: www.zzounds.com.../item--LINTPUX2
If you need midi ports, you may want to check out the Tascam US-144 (which is what I use,) which offers midi in and out, phantom power, and a few other little features, and it comes with Cubase LE recording software.
Here's a link to the Tascam US-144: www.zzounds.com.../item--TASUS144
Feel free to ask away, we're here to help :)
Edit: Tony, not only did you beat me to the post, you also added a shameless plug... you're on a roll tonight!
BeerHunterwww.TheLondonProject.caMember
Since: Feb 07, 2005
Jan 11, 2008 03:59 am What is your budget??
On the cheap (but still pretty good) end you could use Reaper software for essentially free.
You will want to record 2 channels for the piano and 1 for voice. Since you can't get 3 you will have to get 4 channels (you could get away with 2 channels but I would go for 3). I would recommend what I'm using which is the M-Audio Delta 44. You gotta toss in some mics. In your setup I would probably go with 3 condenser mics. Maybe a couple of pencil condensers and a medium diaphram condenser for vocals.
Now then a mixer or some pre's are req'd. Starting out, just get a cheap mixer with some pre's built-in. Cost your around $75.
I think that is about it... unless you go high end and well...
