Recording to laptop

Ostrom

Sorry for the shameful cluelessness. Could i record straight to my laptop (with a reasonably cheap audio interface) if i dont have a dedicated soundcard? Assuming a yes to the above, any suggestions for a dirt cheap unit? Will send free samples as compensation for sound advice

Alanstrainor

Alanstrainor wrote: »

Anyway, I got one of these yonks ago Thomann, it's very cheaply made, but it still works. And i bought this sennheiser mic. For recording my videos on youtube.

Clean:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0jHGK0zg_I

Very slight bit of overdrive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEu9ZcHkySM

I posted the above in a thread here a couple of days ago. And yes, you don't need a dedicated sound card. The above unit will only accept a single xlr input, but does the job. I record on my old laptop or netbook most of the time.

Ostrom

Thanks, i was a bit confused about the connectors too. I presume i could go jack-xlr straight from my guitar with the one in your link, or else get an interface with jack inputs? I'm looking to record my strat, semi and edrums (not simultaneously) so the single input would do fine.

fuzztone

If you have E-Drums I would definitely recommend getting something with a midi input. That way you can output midi from your kit into various drum software like these guys have with their E-drums and Superior 2.0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiqgMN--hMg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK_IhSH7qc4

Personally I would recommend this interface http://www.thomann.de/ie/maudio_fast_track_pro.htm . It has a midi input for your drums and it should run with a low enough latency if you wanted to use software amps sims in real time with your guitars like this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inh53hZYEbw

Ostrom

Ok now i'm excited, hadn't considered the midi option (my drum brain is old and i was never terribly impressed with it). Are the bundled mixing programmes usually ok?

fuzztone

efla wrote: »

Ok now i'm excited, hadn't considered the midi option (my drum brain is old and i was never terribly impressed with it). Are the bundled mixing programmes usually ok?

Midi is fantastic. I put together an e-kit using the cheapest drum brain I could find and it just sounds incredible playing it through various drum programs.

As for the mixing programs/sequencers. Most interfaces come bundled with some budget version of Cubase, which is surprisingly great. There is also a wealth of amazing free software online like Reaper (technically shareware but has an unlimited length trial period) http://www.reaper.fm/.

Ostrom

Thanks, for the advice will order that as soon as i'm back at a computer. Might pick up a midi controller while i'm at it for general messing.