Audacity!?!?

[Ty_Boogie]

Hi, I've read the stickies, and way too many posts (gave me GAS for some high end stuff) but me of little and /or no funds have downloaded Audacity.

Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card
AMD 1800+
1 gig of RAM

nice start?
My first 20 tries were distorted horribly
I finailly made one that was "ok"

I'm looking for tips on using this program

Mic suggestion, I already learned from reading the threads that I should have used "line-in", instead of "MIC"

also I have no MIC, I used a head set with a mic(eek!)plugged only the mic in, then hung it from a bass stand

all I want to do is to hear myself to improve my technique, nothing pro going on

Bass>amp> Mic in front of amp>sound card>audacity

I convert tha almost descent one to MP3, from a wave using switch, ended up 2MB and 59sec long

 

[Pruitt]

Abandon the Mic. If you have an active bass, just run it straight into the Line-In (you'll need a female 1/4 inch to male 1/8 inch mini-plug adapter. If your bass is passive, see if you can acquire an inexpesive direct box or preamp and run that into the Line-In. Or if the amp you have now has a Direct Out/Pre-Amp out built into it, try running that into the Line-In on your PC. Using your PC headphone Mic is not going to result in a very good sound imho.

Good luck and have fun!