Author Topic: Recording gear (Read 2954 times)

hamfist · « **Reply #15 on:** October 22, 2007, 08:52:24 AM »

Rich,
OK, sounds like amplification is sorted for you. That's good - more money for everything else.
Have you found out exactly which x-fi soundcard you have yet ?

Also, do you have a reasonable microphone yet ? Or is that going to have to be included in the budget too ? Can't go wrong with an SM-57 IMHO.

BTW, I'd still thoroughly recommend chatting to the DV boys. They will be switched on to the whole market. Individuals, like me, tend to be rather blinkered and focus only on the particular type of equipment that we tend to use. There's just so much out there.

Alan

Vernon48 · « **Reply #16 on:** October 27, 2007, 08:02:02 PM »

You guys seem to know what your talking about when it comes to recording. Can you help us out?

I want to record without using mic's, and I'm currently running through a line 6 POD 2.0 into a Creative 'Xtreme Music' X-fi soundcard (has ASIO 2.0).

But I'm having problems with my sound, and cant get it to sound good enough. Do i need a preamp or does the POD act as this?

Problem being my recordings sound quite flat, almost as if they are in mono (they're not like, they are in stereo, just sounds abit dull)

Any suggestions?

kevincurtis · « **Reply #17 on:** October 29, 2007, 08:42:08 AM »

off the top of my head, the pod should be outputting sufficient signal to not need a preamp (if it wasn't you would find you couldn't get a decent recording level)...and lifeless sounds a bit like an impedance matching issue - have you tried different inputs on the soundcard (you could use mic in and just keep the volume on pod down) just as a test?

MDV · « **Reply #18 on:** October 31, 2007, 04:47:31 PM »

Quote from: ailean

Thanks Mark, that E-MU looks interesting. Have you actually used it?

Yes, but not for music, alas. I use it for accoustic monitoring of nuclear waste disposal equipment.

I use its bigger brother, the 1616M at home. It has some mixing advantages, but so far as I can tell for simple home recordings there isnt anything thats gonna do the job much better than that at that price.