>Not until tonight have I had the ability to try mult-tracking again. > >For Christmas, my parents gave me a Tascam MF-P01 Portastudio -- a little >four-track analog recorder. Welcome to my hobby, it can get pretty expensive if you get hooked. ( For Christmas I got myself Roland VS-1880, 18-track digital recorder ) to replace an analog multi-track similar to the one you mention. I was a bit daunted by the learning curve, but I'm starting to get the hang of it. >The first thing I did was record myself doing some Buddy Holly. Below is a >link to my version of "Not Fade Away." > >It's not -- I don't want to mislead you -- a great performance. I think I >did OK with the guitar and lead vocals, but my voice isn't well suited to >the background vocals and I had to make several takes on the backgrounds >before just deciding to stick with what I finally stuck with. Also, there's >some line noise between my stereo and my computer, so the mix down isn't as >clean I would like. > >But, what the hell, here it is: http://www.hbo3.com/notfade.mp3. One (potential) reason for the hiss is that performing an analog to digital conversion inside the computer usually produces hiss. To lower (or possibly eliminate) the hiss you may try moving your sound card as far away from the fan / hard drive as possible. To do the conversion outside the computer I bought a sound card with digital I/O (Mine is a Turtle Beach Montego II, www.turtlebeach.com but there are others) and an outboard analog to digital converter (I use a Midiman Flying Calf www.midiman.com ) . It looks like the Flying Calf has had quite a few modifications since I bought my unit (bummer). Anyway, I don't know the original Buddy Holly song, but the performance isn't all that bad. I like the guitar sound, you got a good sound that is reminiscent of the original 'Buddy Holly' sound. If you want to hear my band's interpretation / arrangement of Everyday, go here: www.farcryfly.com/sounds/everyday.mp3 We recorded it on a similar (but probably much more ancient) analog recorder, which can (oddly) record 6 tracks. It may sound like there is more going on, but it was recorded on the six tracks without doing any ping ponging. -- Jeffry Houser | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: Reboog711 | ICQ: 5246969 | Fax / Phone: 860-223-7946 -- DotComIt: Database Driven Web Data My Book: Instant ColdFusion 5 | http://www.instantcoldfusion.com My New Book: ColdFusion: A Beginner's Guide due out next February -- Far Cry Fly, Alternative Folk Rock http://www.farcryfly.com | http://www.mp3.com/FarCryFly -- I'm jealous of everyone who knows more than me Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
