Home recorders--help!

[Muddslide]

Want to get into recording at home on a laptop. I have some experience with this, but it's been awhile.

Can anyone talk to me about things like EZDrummer?

I'm also considering Line 6 POD UX2 for the interface. Good way to go?

I also think I might try to get a laptop to dedicate just to recording. But I need to go cheap.

I'd also take suggestion for multitracking software. I hear a lot about Reaper.

Thoughts or advice greatly appreciated!

[Muddslide]

[BullHorn]

I've had tons of trouble with this. Most of the guides and stickied FAQs are complicating stuff too much.

To record, you need to get your bass's signal into your PC - simply speaking.

Bass -> laptop is possible with a 1/4" to 1/8" cable.

If you want more felxibility, get a USB sound interface ($100-$300). The cheap ones are pretty much equally-bad. I have a Lexicon Alpha. Good enough for home recording.


Regarding hardware, I record with a 5 years old Celeron laptop. Yeah.

[ShredderMaximus]

I got a Line 6 GX, works nicely, haven't bought upgrade yet

I use mixcraft 4, super easy to use program, great for beginners

EZDrummer- Great program for super realistic midi drums, for covers I'll usually render a Guitar Pro tab to midi, isolate drum midi track, and place it in ezdrummers track in recording program. (Sorry, I have it figured out but don't know all the terminology)

I record on my laptop Hp Pavillion Dv6, and have pretty much no latency issues, computers about 1.5 years old.

Hope this helps!

[BulbousMoses]

You might want to take a look at n-Track for recording software. It's inexpensive but pretty full featured.

[Hellbastard]

Check this thread in the recording gear Forum Recording 101 - collection of articles

Lots of great information for the beginner home recording .