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Mikendher:
Dynamite Kid and Johnny C know what they are talking about. Other people probably do too. Usually all you need is a condenser mic and a way to record what the condenser mic hears (computer, 4 track, etc.).

I use a condenser mic ($100 from Samson) that goes through a USB interface ($150 from M-Audio) to my computer. I use Adobe Audition. This is all I need. The condenser mic is used for anything acoustic, and often electric things as well, but I can still plug electric things directly into the USB interface if I want to (like a bass guitar).

To whoever suggested Audacity: The program is full of bugs, and does not offer anywhere near the power of a program like Adobe Audition. I have looked at the code at Audition very thouroughly (for a comp sci project), and it's pretty terribly written.

Just my thoughts. I am not law :-)

Splunkle:
Audacity has the massive advantage over Audition is that its free. If you want lash out and get a audio editor, there are many to choose from: Sound Forge, Audition, Wavelab, etc....

But really, unless you are getting into all sorts crazy sample stuff, audacity does all you should need, and is only buggy on certain platforms.

Also, thanks for reminding me about USB microphones, I fogot all about them.  Which was rather stupid, I admit. I'll go edit hte other post I made to mention them. 

Scytale: Yes, lots of these hosts are very expensive (Read: ProTools).  However, cheap versions exist of most of them, which are much cheaper. FLstudio, for example, ranges in price from US$100 - US$360.  Well, there is a $50 version, but thats little more than a drum machine.

Spinless:
Bittorrent. Yargh.

Rubby:

--- Quote from: Mikendher on 29 Oct 2006, 02:18 ---Dynamite Kid and Johnny C know what they are talking about. Other people probably do too. Usually all you need is a condenser mic and a way to record what the condenser mic hears (computer, 4 track, etc.).

I use a condenser mic ($100 from Samson) that goes through a USB interface ($150 from M-Audio) to my computer. I use Adobe Audition. This is all I need. The condenser mic is used for anything acoustic, and often electric things as well, but I can still plug electric things directly into the USB interface if I want to (like a bass guitar).

To whoever suggested Audacity: The program is full of bugs, and does not offer anywhere near the power of a program like Adobe Audition. I have looked at the code at Audition very thouroughly (for a comp sci project), and it's pretty terribly written.

Just my thoughts. I am not law :-)

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It's true that Audition (Cool Edit as I like to call it) is absolutely uncanny when it comes to wave editing, but I'm gonna go ahead and say that it's sequencing capability's flat out suck. When it's compared to any program which is strictly a sequencer (I like Cubase) you can instantly see the drawbacks with Audition. A few things that come to mind are the lack of decent control over positioning and quantization. It makes sense though because before Adobe bought Cool Edit and made yet another stupid attempt to everything-ize it, it was mostly just a wave editor. Audition still has all the power and more of Cool Edit, but it's lost it's character and charm because Adobe just wants to join the recent "all-in-one" bandwagon.

pat101:
Thanks a ton for all the info, I think I'm going to attempt a route similar to what Splunkle suggested originally I've got a few dollars to spend and I've done the recording on the computer mic thing and the results haven't been terrible we're just looking to improve a bit, also ambient noise shouldn't be a major problem as I'll be recording in my basement and I live in a fairly quiet area. I can't start right now (as I'm currently living in China FAR away from my musical equipment)

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