How Do You Record?
For those that have submitted recordings can you please share with everyone how you've done it. This will be of help to the other students. Thanks!
I have only recorded one track for submission. I used GarageBand on my MacBook. I played chromatic acoustically and recorded using the built in mic in the MacBook. I also used the Gospel Choir setting as recommended by David Barrett.
I had the backing track on one track and my harp on another. Then I used earphones as monitors to avoid any bleed over.
I use Audacity which is freeware (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) and easy to use. I import the jam track I need, press record and blow (acoustic) into the built in mic on my web cam. It also works fine when I blow through my amp. It is about as easy to use as old school tape recorder. It sounds pretty good for as basic as it is. You do need to download a program called LAME in order to turn the recording into a MP3, but once it is downloaded Audacity will give you the option to convert to MP3 from the main menu.
Hi!!!
i use Audacity(freeware) and a Shure sm58 plugged directly to the computer,
and play acoustically on the jamtrack with earphones, then convert to mp3.
Marko
Apparently I am in the dark ages with my method, I need to learn more from the younger generation. Since I grew up with an old fashioned tape recorder, I use the same method I would have back then with a little more technology splash.
First, I have already downloaded David's lesson songs and jam tracks and burned them to CD. I then use my CD player to play the jam track. In the meantime, I use the setting "Voice Recording" on my small MP3 player. After pressing "Play" on the CD player, I then press "Record" on the MP3 device and then I turn it off as soon as I am done recording.
Believe me, this is nothing fancy or difficult and there are many variations that can be used with this same idea.
I have submitted many lessons to Dave and he has never made any complaints about recording quality and his reviews are dead on, even though I personally think the voice recording makes it sound too tinny.
Well I didn't see this before posting my question on the thread topic "UA-1G", Winslow set me back on track I was trying to use the software that came with it ,very nice stuff, but way too difficult for me. I had been using as mentioned here the Audacity and different mics and I just didn't care for my audio. As Winslow had suggested I abandoned the Sonar-6 software and now use the UA-1G interface and the Audacity software. It seems to be working a little better although not $100 better I still like the versatility on adjusting my input audio and other audio coupling I can do with it.
Here's a question I had, should I really be changing the audio with effects to be critiqued by Dave? Maybe Dave has a preference or maybe it doesn't matter I was just hesitate to do that.
It doesn't matter that much, but I prefer no effects since this is a submission for technique.
That's what I would have thought. Attempt number 10 coming up!
My recording set up is: mic (usually an SM57 and cupped) into an M-Audio Fast Track "box" that goes into the computer (USB connection). I use Garage Band (on an IMac). I transfer the backing track to GB (drag and drop), open a new track and record there while listening to the backing track. Although I like the "Gospel Choir" setting I'm still trying to understand the equalizer settings to know how to set them up properly.
Variations: - set up the mic on a stand and play acoustically' and (b) I've tried to play into an amp (like on stage) and mic the amp into the M-Audion etc.
I'm really happy with the set up - fairly simple and straight forward but feel I could make it sound better if I were better at the EQ thing. Garage Band is a great program if you've got a MAC and there's a lot there that I'm still learning about.