Yes, its another "Cheap Recording" thread

[anonymous278347457]

I've tried searching, but since I have absloutly no clue about recording, the FAQs don't really help.

OK, so heres what I need to do:

Get 2 songs recorded for my band, guitar, vocals, bass and most importantly-DRUMS!!!.

I think I have guitars and bass.

Ive got a copy of Cubase, and a copy of Guitar Rig. Ive tried recording bass and guitar directly into my PC through Line in and it sounds acceptable. For bass, I may use the Line out of my amp as well.

But the main problem is drums, we play prog metal, death metal, general metal. So lots of double bass. So the drums need to sound reasonable. And I have no idea how to do it.

So heres what I've got:

Behringer B2 microphone

Some sort of hard drive/flash recorder thing, which I haven't seen(its my dad) but he uses it with the behringer. I Don't think its designed for recording music, my dad is in architecture/acoustics. So he uses it for analysing sounds.

various PC microphones

The PC I am using has a Creative X-fi, and a dual core and 2 gigs of RAM.so PC power should'nt be a problem(I hope)

4 track tape recorder

big to small mono audio adapter(guitar to pc)

Big splitter(eg 2 guitars to 1 amp)

And between us I'd say we can scrape together maybe £50? maybe a little more.

Yes, I think we will have to record drums with 1 microphone. Ive tried plugging the behringer in my PC, but its very quiet and I think it needs power. I don't have a seperate power supply for it, but I think the recorder (which I haven't seen) provides power for it. But the recorder records to flash or hard drive, I don't think it has an output thing so I can plug it into an audio input somewhere else.

So is there a way to get the microphone power, so I can use the mic straight into the PC?

Also, what other ways are there to record drums effectively, preferably with what I've got, or spending minimal money.

 

[anonymous278347457]

Would something like this work?

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[velvetkevorkian]

There's no way you're going to get a good metal drum sound with just one mic- it's just not gonna happen. I would try going round colleges or something, and try and find a recording tech student (there's loads of them now!) who either has gear and will record your drums cheaply or can get access to gear (in college? often cheap/free studio time as well) and will do it.

If you can't get manage that (a) program the drums or (b) save up for enough mics and a portastudio and do it yourself.

 

[anonymous278347457]

Whats a portastudio?

And what can I use to program the drums? We have all of our songs in Guitar Pro format, so we can have midi drums, but they sound bad(so does guitar pro "RSE")

Could I use Reason or Battery or something without a midi keyboard input device?

 

[velvetkevorkian]

By Portastudio I mean something like any of Invalid Link Removed
I have no idea which of those is best value.
I've programmed drums using the Cubase midi editor and Groove Agent, but it still sounds like programmed drums IMO. I think your best bet is to have someone else do the drums to be honest- getting a good drum sound is a LOT of work, its not like you just dangle a mic nearby and away you go.