Hi folks newer guy here looking for ideas for recording some of my practice sessions. Hope this in the right forum. Mostly bass clef transpositions as written along with a track. The iPhone thing isn’t cutting it. My recording experience is about nil. Just looking for things that may work for others and is fairly inexpensive. Thanks!
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Self recording for practice
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Hi Jrl22 & welcome to TB!
It sounds like you're trying to record yourself while playing along w/a pre-existing track, is that right?
If you want to hear the bass part you've played in isolation afterward, you'll need at least a rudimentary multitracking setup. If you just need to hear yourself playing along with the track (and you don't want to futz around with interfaces & software etc), you may want to grab a portable recorder w/built in mics, like the Zoom H2 or similar. There are quite a few similar machines out there by Tascam & other companies too.
GT
It sounds like you're trying to record yourself while playing along w/a pre-existing track, is that right?
If you want to hear the bass part you've played in isolation afterward, you'll need at least a rudimentary multitracking setup. If you just need to hear yourself playing along with the track (and you don't want to futz around with interfaces & software etc), you may want to grab a portable recorder w/built in mics, like the Zoom H2 or similar. There are quite a few similar machines out there by Tascam & other companies too.
GT
Thanks GT. I’ve been browsing some of the hand held recorders they are reasonable for what they do. In normal times I could ask the kid behind the Dj counter at guitar center and find out all about it. I’m leaning towards a hand held recorder. O
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Or if I can find a small cheap mixer at the pawn shop and figure it out that way. Appreciate your response.
Joel
Or if I can find a small cheap mixer at the pawn shop and figure it out that way. Appreciate your response.
Joel
If you just want to hear how you sound to get that feedback, a handheld recorder is the easiest way to go. Recording yourself is very helpful.
I’m using the iZoptope Spire Studio which is dead easy with iPhone or iPad and can produce tracks in mp3, mp4 or wav quality. Playback thru my IEM or home theater sounds good. It’s been great to underline both things I like and dislike about my playing. All the members of my jazz ensemble have one and we’ve just started to use it create projects (full tunes) with sax, piano, bass and drums. It’s the next best thing to playing live during quarantine.
Something like a Zoom handheld recorder is going to have you covered for practice/rehearsal/transcribing purposes. I can't give you too much guidance on the models and such, because I had only started looking into these when I discovered that my fancy new amplifier had some nifty capabilities for recording easily to a device.
If you've got a line out from your amp, and from your playback device you're using w/your tracks, you could use a Y cable w/the Zoom to send one to the left channel & the other to the right, which would save you the expense of a mixer.
There's a couple of small mixers out there right now that allow you to directly record the main output to a USB stick. That would do the trick as well & be more flexible, but isn't as compact as the handheld recorder route.
GT
