Newbie recording...
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Posted on Dec 21, 2004 01:09 pm
Mike C
Member Since: Dec 21, 2004
I'm doing some recording for a church choir. I've done some preliminary recordings. just plug it in to my pc { line-in / mic / whaterver else i could do } from the mixer ( 24 plus phantom power ) that they use for their speakers. * The feed back wasn't anyoing at all, but their setup wasn't tollerable. Singers & guitars is pretty much all you get. ( which is fine for one pc to record ) but i want more... borrowd a mixer from a buddy and plan to use condenser mics ( preferrably three or more to capture more from the singers ) but testing at home lead to crazy feed back from my buddy's mixer to my sound card.
Mixer at church we can rule out as one pc recording it.
Mixer for overall recording = mackie 1604-vlz pro
Pc specs
p4 ht @ 3 ghz @ 800fsb
512 pc 4000 ddr
hard drives dual western digital raptors raid 0
120gig 7200
160gig 7200
sound card sound blaster audigy 2 zs platinum
software is ( besides testing from creative's software { which was tollerable with main mixer that the choir uses })
steinberg cubasis vst / cooledit pro
Overall opinions / suggestions would be helpful... after reading from a couple places around this site i gather that my sound card isn't much for recording...
but from what i gather... my intelect suggests that the mixer coupled with the right mic's is all i would need for quality ( i don't need each mic recorded seperatly, or do i? )
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Dec 21, 2004 01:13 pm There are other forums? I was not aware of that! :-)
That said, I have to agree, regardless of the mixer, lics and such, you are still limited by the weakest link, the sound card with limited inputs. The best solution and "bang for your buck" would be an M Audio Delta 1010LT service.bfast.com/bfast/c...mp;bfmtype=gear which, for the feature ste it has, is very well priced. It will provide you with the ability to keep a few mic signals (4, limited by your mixer) separate for later mixing. Making those four different track grouped logically could be very helpful, having vox on one, guitars on one, drums on one, etc, you can then much more effectively mix and produce it post-session.
