Home recording - help needed taking the plunge

Patricide

Ok after numerous pains in the ass forking out money to recording demos and the pain in the ass writing stuff by myself ive decided to get into home recording.

I thinking bout doing the following but i dont know if it will work or if there are any better/cheaper solutions out there.

First getting a line 6 toneport so i have a mic and guitar input, then using guitar rig for my guitars using guitar rig or the gearbox software it comes with for my bass tone and and the gear box software for the vocal and drum micing. i was planning on running this through sonar 5 then to record.

As for the drums i was gonna use my singers mixer to mic em all up

I dont have a clue if this will all work though or if theres an easyer/better way to do things.

sei046

to be honest your better off just buying somethin nice and handy like a lexicon omega into a pc. Nice an simple and perfect results. Thats 4 channels or check out terratec for 8 channels. Your way is fine but i would recomend what i said

jtsuited

maybe look into the mbox2/ pro tools LE direction. I've been around the block with various options and this setup has really been miles better than everything else i've tried.

Patricide

Links Please???

I dont Really mind my setup as long as ive got guitar rig in the balance there somewhere, and something with different vocal reverbs and stuff cause its handy the way you can change between tones and amps without re recording.

smog

Patricide wrote:

Links Please???

I dont Really mind my setup as long as ive got guitar rig in the balance there somewhere, and something with different vocal reverbs and stuff cause its handy the way you can change between tones and amps without re recording.

You wont go wrong with the toneport for the price. Guitar/bass/vocals are just beautiful and the range of tones and tweaking you can do is just remarkable for this little box. As for the software you use to record this, it will be your choice from audtion to fruity loops studio to cubase but as the the toneport records directly via USB the tone recorded is independent of your sound card etc.

As for Drums, personal opinion is that all software solutions suck and two overheads (pg81 etc) a kick (akg112 etc) and snare (possibly the vocal mic if short on cash and its a 58) The closest i would come to frustrating yourself software wise would be propellerheads Reason Redrum(but you would pick the mics up for the price of this)

shabbyroad

Be prepared to give up a significant amount of the time you currently spend in songwriting and rehearsing in trying to get your home recording chops.

Buy a simple stereo recorder with built in microphone and record your song demos onto that.

If the pain in your ass is from having to write everything by yourself then get a songrwriting partner (or 2 or 3).

If you think forking out money to studios is a pain in the ass... just wait until you get a pain in the ass forking out money to Thomann and other such places

Why record real drums at home ? Get some loops or software to get demos done. That 4 hours you spend mic'ing up and getting a basic drum track on (virtual) tape could have been spent sorting out the dodgy lyric while you've got a straightfoward loop or programmed pattern on the demo. When it's time . . . get a serious drummer with recording experience along with a studio that knows what the **** it's doing with some proper mics and pres.