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NEW SYSTEM !


Finally got out of that 12 year old Gateway.

Soon to install Cubase

Hopefully the learning curve wont be a complete circle

We have so much new music I simply must get on line and start doing our videos.


Wish me luck! I'm going to need it.

Good luck! Learning any new DAW is a challenge when starting.

I loved Cubase from even 14 years ago. A whole bunch of things that are good. My first puter only had a couple gigs of hard drive. One song and it was full. Mix downs with incredible speed. (half hour four 5 tracks )

Being a man of good intelligence you should have a ton of fun.
I just wish I was there to hear that first WOOOOOOWEEE.
Have fun Sans. Look forward to hearing that first mix!

Congrats Sans

I can't imagine not being able to record at home. I have a blast doing it. Even if it's just for my ears. I use a simple version of Pro-tools and once you get the hang of it it'll become addictive. In a good way of course.

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Been so busy with the organization & gigs we ( I ) have not progressed on little bit into the recording facet.

But that's OK ... the band is busy and doing well.

Sans, Let me know if you need some help with Cubase. What type of interface will you be using?

not sure if you've already taken the plunge for cubase, but I wanted to offer up some life saving advice....

PRESONUS STUDIO ONE!!!

What is an interface ??

The Cubase came with my ZOOM R16 recorders.
There was really no plunge involved as the software came with the recorders ( I have two of them linked master slave for 16 channels off my 20 channel board )

The intent is to upload directly off the SD cards so I'd have to assume at this point that any music production software could be utilized.

What is "life saving" about PRESONUS if I might inquire?

Thanks Mr Santos ... I'm sure you will be hearing from me.

I came home from rehearsal crying like a child ... I hate tooth pain.

Wont look into it any further ( physically ) until l we get this weekends show behind us.

Sans,
An interface is basically a box with 1/4" input jacks for instruments (and XLR jacks for microphones). It is a combination of a DI box for boosting signals, but has "Audio to Digital" (AD) converters to turn your signal from your guitar/microphone into something your computer can record.

Your computer has a microphone jack, but the converters in standard microphone jacks are very poor - they were not intended for recording music or instruments so the quality is not up to par.

An Audio Interface is a great bridge between your instruments/mics and your computers recording software because it was built for the sole purpose of recording music.

Presonus Studio 1 is an audio interface. If you google it, you'll see what it looks like. There are rack-mounts, standalone boxes, even PCIe audio cards you can install directly into your computer. The most common ones are connected to your computer via a USB or Firewire cable.

Hope that answers a few questions.
Chris

Look into getting an instructional DVD or video series. Those kind of things helped me learn Pro Tools much faster.

Read the sticky threads posted on the Newbies section of the user forum at homerecording .com - the place is a great resource.

Thanks for the info. I'll probably get my old friend Ray involved again when I finally get things ready to kick off.

The recording will be done via my Zoom onto SD cards then transferred to the computer or I may just move the computer to our "studio" and at that point if I understand the analogy correctly my Zooms will in fact be the interface and a control device.

Need bigger SD cards so I will have to clear the investment with the band this week. Then we should begin to put it to use.

Biggest advice I can say with Cubase et al. When yer all setup, take screenshots of everything you configured!! Cannot say that enough Once and a while either your PC or Cubase will throw a wobbler and something will be wrong...screenshots save a world of pain.

I'm looking at moving over to Reaper (open source) when I move from Windows XP as I'll have to upgrade my Cubase version at a cost. The majority of recording I do in Cubase is doable in Reaper, just not looking forward to the learning curve trying to do the same things as I can do in Cubase at the mo'....

Reaper is pretty easy to get up to speed with. Great manual and very helpful user forums.

Sans the one thing that I have come to love from Presonus is their monitoring station. http://www.amazon.com/PreSonus-Monitor-Station-Studio-Control/dp/B0010HGCTU/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

The beauty of it is once you have your sources and destination systems wired you don’t have to crawl behind the computer every time you want to change sources or destination. I use it with an external sound card/interface/DSP, so it’s easy to just unplug it and use it with a laptop for portable recording. The four headphone jacks are great for monitoring during isolated track recording.

Zoom makes some cool stuff and you get a lot of features for the money. I have an older MRS 1266 ten track which still comes in handy from time to time. If you’re using Cubase why don’t you just record directly into the software on the hard drive, rather than swap cards back and forth?

In either case it’s a great setup though because you have the freedom to do all hardware/software, or both for recording. It will ease the learning curve if you’re more comfortable with the hardware interface, while learning the DAW. Hardware is so much more intuitive to use, it took quite a while before I started trusting and using Sonar.

When you use the Zooms in tandem like that, does it combine the sound from both units into one master stereo output, or does it stay the same with one stereo output per unit? Mike was looking at replacing his old analog console, I’m trying to figure out the best way to get him to digital recording. His preference is a hardware interface with physical faders.