Mar 04, 2005 04:28 am allrighty heres another quick one.
Is it advisable to try recording with kristal audio engine before investing in software. Will this give me a decent quality recording with the tascam sound card?
cheers again
i´haven´t got a clue
Posted on Mar 04, 2005 04:14 am
funkymonkey
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Member Since: Mar 04, 2005
´hi everyone i´m sure you´ll be able to help me out!
I´m just starting to think about recording at home. I need to know what sort of equipment ineed to record onto my laptop. I have decided on a tascam us-122 usb soundcard, is this a good choice? aswell as the sound card and microphone what else do i need? I will be recording guitar, bass and vocals and i think i need some sort of drum machine. at the maximum i´ll be recording 2 tracks at the same time. hope you can help
cheers
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Mar 04, 2005 04:28 am allrighty heres another quick one.
Is it advisable to try recording with kristal audio engine before investing in software. Will this give me a decent quality recording with the tascam sound card?
cheers again
Mar 04, 2005 07:31 am it might be that the soundcard comes with recording software too.
Mar 04, 2005 08:53 am Welcome there funky monkey (love that name)
I've heard some good stuff about the tascam, and am interested in one myself. I played with kristal a little once, and it seems that you'd be in good shape to start out with that. I think Tadpui has put some time into that app, as well as a few other free/cheap ones.
As far as a drum machine, if you're getting started, there's quite a few here that use a external drum machine, and quite a few that use software (myself included). I'm partial to FL studio for now, using a combination of samples and midi. I believe leafdrums is free, and I think hammer something is too. dB just did a review of battery 2 to which he's very impressed.
Most have demos that will give you a good idea of what's available. It ends up coming down to what you want to accomlish and how you want to accomplish it. You'll have to figure out which ones do that best/cheapest/fastest/etc.
Mar 04, 2005 10:38 am yeah, so basically, if you are recording vocals, guitar, bass, you need: a mic, a preamp (can be on a mixer or standalone, or possibly on the soundcard/interface) and a soundcard.
Mar 04, 2005 11:32 am WEll you're in luck because I have the tascam us 122. Is this the stand alone unit? USB connected? Thats what I have...Here's my story..
I have a dell inspiron 8600 centrino 1.7ghz..1 gig of ram and lots of harddrive. Running windows XP
I also have an ibook with 256 ram and 1.4 ghz processor. running mac os X.
My intention when I got the tascam was to use it with a mac mini and use garageband 2 for recording but its back ordered for about 5 years so I figured I would fire up the tascam on my XP laptop. It comes with Cubase software for recording and gigistudio also. Check the tascam site because you can get a new version of Cubase shipped instead of whats on the packaged cd's
Anyways, I loaded the drivers onto my laptop and then loaded the cubase software..Not sure what caused it but I bluescreened XP. I don't think the drivers like the centrino built in wireless..some kind of conflict. Needless to say Laptop was wacky after that and I ended up doing a complete rebuild. Did not re-install on this machine.
Grabbed the ibook and tried and I downloaded the latest drivers off tascam (did that for windows also) and had no problems what so ever. I then fired up garageband 2 and set my input and outputs
to the tascam device and plugged in my headphones and guitar and it worked great. I have a little demo of me messing around with a riff that I recorded.. baby81.weitermitfahrer.net if you want to hear the quality I got.
I also have a 900mhz xp desktop with about 512 Ram and I installed the tascam stuff on there and had no problems what so ever. The recording quality wasn't as good using Cubase but I know this has to do with the comp not being powerful enough..but it sounded decent..
The tascam allows direct in's for your guitar or you can line in from an amp. It also has XLR ports and phantom power for Mic's . The best feature of the thing is the direct monitor. You get to listen to your playing live and the sound coming from the comp is good too. Little mixer basically..works out nice. If you plan on using the computer to do your effects then I would read up on latency..its a big problem. I play through a Line-6 amp so I get my distortion effects taken care of and then just tweak the tracks later.
i love the tascam..If you have the cash they have a whole line of these devices that do way more but for basic recording I love it.
Let me know if you have any questions ..Happy to answer them.
Mar 07, 2005 04:54 am Thanks for the input it should help me get started just need to order the thing now, i´m sure i´ll be back when arrives with more begginer questions for you
but thanxs from finland
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