Recording Acoustic

[Kyle_Le_Don]

Basically im into singing...and have been for a long time.. ive sang a few times and got bit of praise eveytime, school leavers both at primary & secondry, on a stage infront of a skeggy beach, pub kareokes and most recently at gf's gramas funeral.

I want to start recording music of different genres and mix with some music... love the thought of having my own music studio one day..

Thing is i really dont even know where to begin...

Any suggestiona would wicked, cheeerz

[I am Rod Hull]

[Kyle_Le_Don]

Next time... thats the next step

[scottthefox]

Do you play an instrument as well mate out of interest?? Also there are loads of decent apps out there for the basic recording stuff that I expect will be most suitable to yourself. Ie, easy to use and cheap to purchase. Shop around, you'll get a better response from an Internet search than you will on here.

[Uncle Phil]

You could start off by renting a rehearsal room perhaps, pick up a decent mic for yourself and recording some stuff onto a laptop, there's some reasonably priced recording software out there that most laptops can run so take that along and see how you get on.

[Blanesta]

You're probably best to contact a local recording studio, there are quite a few in leicester, you could try out your ideas as well as get an idea of what's involved in the whole process. If you're serious about it I think it would be the best option, as you don't need to buy all the equipment, you get to speak to people who work in that area, and you also get to hear your voice in a real studio, which should help you gauge your vocal ability.

[21st Century Fox]

Garage Band.

[rico]

http://www.yellowbeanstudios.co.uk/

[FoxesAreBlue]

It's been a VERY long spite since I was involved in this sort of stuff, but as far as I can remember, the studio used Cubase SX3 and Reason 3 (this was in 2004-2006). The most basic microphone they used was a Shure SM58. Ill have a look, because I had an old copy of Cubase which if I still have, you can have, I'll have a butch tomorrow.

That's all I can tomtomhelp I'm afraid.

[Saxondale]

These are surprisingly good. I once recorded a song (acoustic and vocals) on one and added extra tracks on [can't remember which programme, Audacity perhaps?] afterwards. Very, very good piece of kit for the money.

[Houdini Logic]

Best thing to do is buy a half decent mic (£80), a cheap external soundcard (circa £50) and get some simple recording software. Garageband is a good shout for Macs or any of the LE (free) versions of cubase, sonar, etc will do the job for Windows.

You'd be surprised how easy it is to make half decent recordings these days.

[Kyle_Le_Don]

Thanks for all your responses would love the cubabase that sounds cool... not long got back from work.. started a new job not so long back on commision had a brilll day today but shattered will respond to ya'll messages tomorrow... cheerz

Night

[FoxesAreBlue]

Thanks for all your responses would love the cubabase that sounds cool... not long got back from work.. started a new job not so long back on commision had a brilll day today but shattered will respond to ya'll messages tomorrow... cheerz

Night

Ah yeah forgot about that, I'll have a look tonight for you, it's even in my diary now so I don't forget.

[Kyle_Le_Don]

Did u lose your diary

[FoxesAreBlue]

Ah shit, yeah I looked for you! Unfortunately I couldn't find it BUT I'm sure it's in there somewhere and my room is due a bit of a sort out so if I do see it ill fish it out.