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I attended my 1st class on recording last Saturday, so
yesterday I pulled out a old Line6 recorder I'd had for
a couple of years, but didn't know how to use, and made
a recording. I laid down a piano track to a drum machine
with a scratch vocal, then came back and added bass, then
came back and laid down guitar. By God I'm proud of my
1st recording also, how do I put it on to my computer, I can
run out the headphone jack, and get it to play out of the
computer speakers, but no way to catch it so I can put
in to a file, I guess. I am a computer dumdazz and my old
lady is doing all the computer work, but she's very busy with
out having to take care of my bullshit. She said something on
the way out the door this morning she'd have to download a
program, see you tonight.

For my 1st one so far I'm real happy with the mix, I wrote the
song I recorded myself cause it made it easier to play all the
instruments and get the good mix, going to add vocals and
synthesizer today.

My computer needs a 1/4 inch jack that I can plug into and
load the song and type in the music and lyrics, and move on
to the next one.

I've bought the wrong equipment so many times, that this
time I'm going to try to educate myself on recording before
buying anything else,just use something I've already got like
that Line6 recorder. I love equipment.

I am also a computer illiterate! Thats why I bought the Boss BR1180 back in 2003! It was advertised as the easiest recorder to use. Basically it is a studio in a box. It does everything. It is real easy to import digitized drum tracks from discreetdrums.com. It is the same as the BR1600 is now. I still struggle recording with it!

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Lynard Dylan wrote:I attended my 1st class on recording last Saturday, so
yesterday I pulled out a old Line6 recorder I'd had for
a couple of years, but didn't know how to use, and made
a recording. I laid down a piano track to a drum machine
with a scratch vocal, then came back and added bass, then
came back and laid down guitar. By God I'm proud of my
1st recording also, how do I put it on to my computer, I can
run out the headphone jack, and get it to play out of the
computer speakers, but no way to catch it so I can put
in to a file, I guess. I am a computer dumdazz and my old
lady is doing all the computer work, but she's very busy with
out having to take care of my bullshit. She said something on
the way out the door this morning she'd have to download a
program, see you tonight.

For my 1st one so far I'm real happy with the mix, I wrote the
song I recorded myself cause it made it easier to play all the
instruments and get the good mix, going to add vocals and
synthesizer today.

My computer needs a 1/4 inch jack that I can plug into and
load the song and type in the music and lyrics, and move on
to the next one.

I've bought the wrong equipment so many times, that this
time I'm going to try to educate myself on recording before
buying anything else,just use something I've already got like
that Line6 recorder. I love equipment.

Line 6 has been known to use Ableton as its DAW. In fact that is what I use.

If you do have Ableton, then you must Export Audio in the FILE menu.

It will ask you to select the length. This means how many measures you want to export. ei.... 30... 59.... however long your song is. You will be able to see this in the Session view.

Once you enter that, you will then hit okay to export the audio.


Now, Ableton will export a .wav file. If you want to share your music on here, you will want to creat a MP3 file.

To do this, you must convert your exported .wav file, into a .mp3 file. You will need a converter.


The software and be found online for free but be careful, sometime people disguise these programs, and they are really Malware, or Spyware... (viruses).

http://www.koyotesoft.com/

That is where I got my Mp3 converter, and it hasn't caused any problems yet.


Using that software is pretty easy.


But once you get the software convert the file, it should ask you to place it somewhere. I use my desktop so I can find it easier, or I use my Documents/Music folder with I created.


From there you should be able to use this website under your music tab to upload music.


I hope this helps, and if you have any questions let me know, I will be on and off here tonight so, I should get back with you fairly quickly.

What kind of recorder is it? Is it a JM4 looper or one of their USB interfaces like the UX1 or UX2? What?

It'll be kinda hard to help you w/out some details.

Of course there is always RTFM.

Why down load a converter...? Windows media has that already built in.. Gotta go in there an make the default rip t MP3 format.

There are also a couple of software programs for windows that are "record what you hear"

You can find tham a cnet.com

Hey thanks for all your help, the little women
downloaded some program, and we uploaded?
the track onto our computer, but the sound is
only coming out one side. Like I said I'm a
computer dumbazz.

Exactly what I'm doing, useing the loop on
Spider Jam III, 1st loop drum track, piano,
and scratch vocal, 2 nd loop bass, 3rd and
4th loops guitar, 5th loop vocals. All loops
about 4 mins. Trying to upload with out buying
another chord, I'm already chord rich, but it
looks like I'm going to have to buy another chord.

I got RCA jacks out on Spider JamIII, so I guess
I'll get RCA jacks to USB?

Recording is fun, layers of music without all the
band BS

Lynard Dylan wrote:Recording is fun, layers of music without all the
band BS

Sounds like you got bit.

LD you might as well just break down and get yourself an Interface next time you run out to Guitar Center. Do your research though, lots of choices. And your computer needs to be powerful enough if you want to track multiple instruments simultaneously.

I think I've been bit Jahva

I've got so much equipment
laying around, I'm not buying
anymore till I complete all 5
weeks of the recording class at
GC

I just found out what a audio interface
was last Saturday at the 1st class.

I wrote this song and have recorded
twice, like described, I've got both
versions blaring out loud, lots of
screaming guitar. Fixing to go downstairs
and record it for a 3rd time, tried to get
some synthetic horns in yesterday but
just couldn't get them to fit, maybe today.

Two days and I'm no expert, but seems you
get a better sound if you play to the mix.

I posted a reply earlier but it got lost somewhow. Anyway...

If you have a Spider JAM, there is a slot for an SD (storage) card in the back. If you don't have one in there, go buy one at the electronics/department store. Just buy a 2Gbyte SD card (like $10 or so). The JAM will not support cards greater than 2Gbytes. If you buy one you'll have to format it when you put it in the Spider JAM.

Once you have the card in the spider jam:
- Get to your recording.
- Hit the save button
- Scroll down to "Save Rec Mix As WAV To Card."
- Take the card out and insert into the reader on your computer (hopefully you have a card reader there).

Now, the JAM will only save a .WAV file in MONO. You'll have to convert it on MP3 on your computer (e.g. I think iTunes will do it among other things like Audacity etc.)

The songs on my profile were done on my Spider JAM.

There is also a way that you can save individual loops as separate .WAV files so you can mix them later on your audio editing program (i.e. DAW)

Suggest you also download the Spider Jam Manuals. That will tell you more on how to do this stuff. Its not the best documentation, but enough to get you thru it.
http://line6.com/support/manuals/spiderjam

Lynard Dylan wrote:I think I've been bit Jahva

I've got so much equipment
laying around, I'm not buying
anymore till I complete all 5
weeks of the recording class at
GC

Smart move

Denny thanks, I've got the SD card, and
I've got the owners manual. Same kind of
card I use on my camcorder. I appreciate
all your info, it maybe more than I can take
in at once. I know she converts something
from WAV to Mp3. I've been recording for
about 3 days hope to have one up on my
bm page soon.

Thanks again to all.

Hey Denny just listened to your stuff
on your bm page, sounds good. You
really got it mixed well, clean sound.
Thanks again that SD card will be easier
to carry upstairs to where my computer
is than the Spider Jam.

Lynard Dylan wrote:Hey Denny just listened to your stuff
on your bm page, sounds good. You
really got it mixed well, clean sound.
Thanks again that SD card will be easier
to carry upstairs to where my computer
is than the Spider Jam.

Thanks.

lol-- yeah. For as small as that amp is, it seem awfully heavy.

I'm guessing you've been saving to "internal" vs. to the card. You probably want to save all your internal recordings (as is) to your card as well. Then save the "mix downs" (WAV files) when you're ready to convert to MP3 or mix them (once you learn how to record/save separate parts).

If you get a chance, you should download the Advanced Spider JAM guide as well. There's a few things in there with respect to recording workflow and mixdown that should help you as well. Its not in the regular user manual.

btw-- I love the sound you get out of that thing with your LP.