Recording myself play

hallelujah

Hey all,

I need some advice in relation to recording equipment. I want to record myself playing my guitar and singing. I want to be able to upload the recorded track to myspace. I'm not talking recording studio standard, just somehting I can put up there. Do any of you know how I should do this? Should I buy a microphone for my laptop and record that way? Any help would be great.

Thanks,
Jeff

hallelujah

Enough of the responses already.

frobisher

How much €€ have you got?

hallelujah

Not sure how much I'd need to spend. I'm think of €50 maybe.. Like its just a microphone I need, right?

frobisher

To be honest at that level I wouldn't really know what's what. Maybe go into somewhere like Maplin or Petes or a good local computer store and ask them. I wonder even a look in the argos cataluge might find you soemthing at that price that works! Maybe others on the fourm here can chime in with some pointers. Although I'd suggest showing a tiny bit more patience if you're not getting immediate replies, it is Monday!

hallelujah

I hate Mondays

TelePaul

€50 = tape recorder

Quattroste

€50 for a mic in to your laptop and download some sort of recording software and you can record. It won't sound very professional though. It will be more like a tape recording, except digital, but you will be able to upload to your space.

hallelujah

Quattroste wrote:

€50 for a mic in to your laptop and download some sort of recording software and you can record. It won't sound very professional though. It will be more like a tape recording, except digital, but you will be able to upload to your space.

Any idea where to get a decentish mic? Waltons?

ungratefuldead

Hi dude,

check this out maybe can do the job:

http://www.thomann.de/ie/the_tbone_sc440_usb.htm

artvandulet

I'd say if you can strech it go for one of these, http://www.247guitar.com/detail.php?StockCode=SAMC01U
Otherwise just get yourself a computer mic from PC world/dixons/peats etc for about €20 and download Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

hallelujah

ungratefuldead wrote:

Hi dude,

check this out maybe can do the job:

http://www.thomann.de/ie/the_tbone_sc440_usb.htm

Hey man, I think I like this one. How do you know its any good? I don't want to order it and realise its crap..

Also, thanks to all who replied.

ungratefuldead

One of my friends got it.......the sound is not bad....only problem pc should be powerful with a least 1GB of ram.

also don't plug many usb device otherwise gonna lose signal......

For the rest i'm not sure about it 100%.......

hallelujah

So I went for the t-bone and it arrive yesterday. Looks a bit used to be honest but no matter. Problem I have now is that the only way I can record is through the sad little 'Sound recorder' provided with windows and I don't want to use that. Does anyone know if there is any software out there for recording?

Also, I want to put the mic on a desk, etc, and play + sing so that the mic picks up the sound in the room. I don't want to have to point the mic to my amp, then sing really loud for it to pick up my voice.. Does anyone know how to do this?

Thanks,
Jeff

cornbb

hallelujah wrote:

So I went for the t-bone and it arrive yesterday. Looks a bit used to be honest but no matter. Problem I have now is that the only way I can record is through the sad little 'Sound recorder' provided with windows and I don't want to use that. Does anyone know if there is any software out there for recording?

Try Reaper: http://www.cockos.com/reaper/ or Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Also, I want to put the mic on a desk, etc, and play + sing so that the mic picks up the sound in the room. I don't want to have to point the mic to my amp, then sing really loud for it to pick up my voice.. Does anyone know how to do this?

You will likely get shítty results if you try to record yourself sing and play at the same time. The software mentioned above will allow you to record yourself play, then record yourself sing while listening to yourself play over headphones, then mix them together. Its a basic principle of modern recording.

hallelujah

cornbb wrote:

Try Reaper: http://www.cockos.com/reaper/ or Audacity: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/



You will likely get shítty results if you try to record yourself sing and play at the same time. The software mentioned above will allow you to record yourself play, then record yourself sing while listening to yourself play over headphones, then mix them together. Its a basic principle of modern recording.

I'll try one of those software packages. Had a wee think about me recording playing and singing at the same time and your right, the results would be bad, unless I had some sort of way of pointing a mic at my amp and another at my mouth. Think using recording software would be my best bet. When I make it, you can all have free tickets to my first show - most likely the newly developed Landsdowne road.

Niall0

Reaper is awesome ,probably the best free recording program for windows.