I would like to learn how to play the Chapman Stick

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Mon Feb 16, 2009 8:49 pm

Both Cakewalk or Vegas are incredible software packages that will let you record multiple tracks. Cakewalk has the advantage of supporting MIDI. I use Vegas for video editing, so using it for audio was easy for me since I already understood the interface. There are lots of other programs out there too, depending on what kind of music you plan on making. I do a lot of drum looping and Sonic Acid is the king for that.

I've been thinking about building an entire Linux-based recording studio, mainly because it's all free software and I wouldn't feel like a heel everytime someone asked what software packages I used and I had to explain that I didn't pay for them. Studio 64 is apparently a pretty good Linux-based multitracking alternative. Unfortunately for me there doesn't seem to be any reliable Linux drivers for the MOTU stuff, which means a lot of wasted money on hardware for me (what else is new).

This is one of the better things I recorded at the house, if you like goofy 80's cover tunes. I played all the instruments (poorly) on that track, did vocals, and recorded the whole thing in Sony Vegas in about 2 hours. I think I did the drums in Fruity Loops.

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 5:29 pm

I use Mixcraft and Goldwave, mainly because they get along with me and the learning curve is shallow.

I have a tape four track but it died sometime in the early nineties. The carcass is in the attic somewhere.

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 11:46 am

I actually had a Fostex 8-track, but I always called it a 4-track because anytime you say "8-track" recorder, people think it used 8-track tapes and it's just confusing. It had some sort of mechanism for combining tracks, but to be honest you lost so much sound quality doing it that I typically only did 4-track recordings.

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 5:23 pm

You mean that ping pong technique where you combine two or more tracks onto another single track? yeah, signal loss is pretty bad when the whole width of the tape is only a quarter inch to start with.

Flack · Post by **Flack** » Wed Feb 18, 2009 6:06 pm

Yeah, this had some sort of automated way of doing it. Like I said, I only did it once or twice and it sounded so awful that I never bothered with it again. With only four tracks to work with, I was pretty limited with what I could do. A drum track, a guitar track, a bass track and (usually dry) vocals. It wasn't until I started PC-based recording that I could really do what I wanted (two vocal tracks, three guitar tracks, etc).

Lysander · Post by **Lysander** » Tue Mar 31, 2009 7:52 pm

Just popping in here to report taht the drumkit I want is

STILL

NOT
OUT!

Motherfuckers.

AArdvark · Post by **AArdvark** » Wed Apr 01, 2009 3:59 pm

Please to post photos!

Or at least a description...

THE
CRACK BOOM BANG
AARDVARK

Lysander · Post by **Lysander** » Tue Mar 02, 2010 4:04 pm

Just popping in here to report that the drumkit I want is

STILL
NOT
OUT
In the us.

Motherfuckers.

Tdarcos · Post by **Tdarcos** » Wed Mar 03, 2010 8:03 pm

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Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu Mar 04, 2010 10:43 pm

This thread took the FUCK off when my back was turned!

I have replies to almost every new post therein. But I gotta finish my text game first.

I gotta finish this.

Lysander · Post by **Lysander** » Sun Jul 25, 2010 12:23 am

Is that how you want this thread to end?

Is it, RobB?

IS IT?

I would like to learn how to play the Chapman Stick

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