Budget Home Band Recording

shawn040

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Hello everyone

i need some help and guildence from u all..i will like to setup a budget home studio band(digital drum,2 guitars,1 keyboard, 2 mics) recording in my room. I not very sure i have the correct equipment for my home recording although there are a lot of methods. Pls share with me all your experiences thanks thanks :)

This is how i going to have for my budget home band recording

E8 mixer (channel enough)
2 x monitor speakers(i used instrument amp(feq resp n power is enough) act as monitor)
1 x Digital Drumset
2 x guitars
1 x keyboard
2 x shure mics

My most headacne thing is do i need a hardware card like 8 input/8 output so that i can record one shot into my pc? How much it cost if i need it? Btw i am using audacity to record the soundtrack. Now i only record one track at a time only. Help help me pls...

Shawn
 
Thanks james

if i use midi to record..i will need to think of solutions how to record into pc liao becos i thinking everything use mixer. Any help from midi??



Shawn
 
For recording, the spects listed are okae, but for editing, i think you will need much more than 900mhz. My 1.6 ghz laptop chokes on playback of my multitrack recording while using cubase sx. I usually have 10-14 channels when editing, and i have to disable reverb on some channels, or commit it to file when editing to maintain my CPU load at an acceptable level. I guess with digital drums you only have 1 input to mix, but then you lose the flexibility of applying seperate compression and reverb for each channel, or changing them after your recording.

You may want to get monitoring headphones for your vocals, because you don't want any backing track to leak into the mikes while doing your vocals. You may need an amp simulator, or mikes for real amps, if you are recording an electric guitar.

Lastly, you need DI's for your bass, guitar amp sims(if you are using) and perhaps your digital drums, if they do not have a direct out.
 
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