A serious question this time: at practice time we have been recording onto my laptop with Soundforge using a crappy computer microphone: I'd like to raise the quality of these recordings so we can listen properly and play the new songs that we have been obsessively writing to people who might tell us nice things (and also email them to ourselves to facilitate practice). Is there any kind of a decent microphone that will plug into a regular computer jack and give a reasonable reproduction of three amateur musicians playing in the spare bedroom? Best Robin
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 1:09 AM, jimberke...@gmail.com < jimberke...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > This is an interesting summation of techniques and gear > > http://mixonline.com/online_extras/recording_bluegrass_extra/ > > It's easier when you begin recording to have someone else play your > instrument while you engineer. Start with one mic at first and move it > around until it sounds good. Let your ears tell you where to place it. > When you get good at one mic then go stereo. Engineering is like > learning a new instrument. Work your way up the gear ladder like you > would with mandolins. > > I play solo live without a pickup. Partly because I'm a folk barbarian > and partly because it would be a pita to constantly plugin all my > instruments. I cary an SM-57 with me and will use a small diaphragm > condenser if the venue has one. I like singing through a SM-58 beta. > I love large diaphragm mics but it has to be the rite room with a real > listening audience to work. > > For amplification I used a Bose L-1 3 nights a week for a year and a > half and they are nice but really really pricey. I have had good luck > lately the Mackie powered speakers. My old soundman has a Fishman > Soloamp that he loves for honkytonkin but I haven't played one yet > barbarian style. > > Jimbo > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
