Jolt Country

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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

STILL

NOT
OUT!

Motherfuckers.

Please to post photos!

Or at least a description...




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

STILL
NOT
OUT
In the us.


Motherfuckers.

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I thought she died last week.

Thank you! This has been Too Soon Theater!

Brian: That joke was as lame as President Roosevelt's legs!
Lois: Brian!
Brian: What, too soon?
- Family Guy

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.

Is that how you want this thread to end?

Is it, RobB?

IS IT?