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Location: Corvallis, OR | First, I have a used, still in box, "Guitar Tracks" by Calkwalk. A recording program especially designed for guitarists. I used it a little, found it OK.You can have it for FREE, if you pay postage (I assume postage is around $5 to anywhere in continental US.)Box contains software, cables and manual.
SECOND, does anyone have a few sentences of informed opinion about the "MobilePre" Digital recording software for a computer ?
It seems like the ideal way to go for a home based amateur guitarist,according to the advertising blurb. But I would rather rely on someone with hands on experience :-) |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Sent you an email 4fingers. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Come to the OFC Tour. Master T. will be giving a clinic on recording. Dave |
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Location: south east Michigan | I'm looking forward to that little seminar.
The most important feature with the system I end up with is SIMPLICITY. My little handheld Pandora has a ga-zillion features that I don't need and won't use. To many features get in the way of the basics. It is a marvel of engineering and design but you almost have to be an engineer to use it.
I'll wager that most of us here are looking for the features that I'm looking for. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Brad, When listing to your latest recording I kept wishing for one feature - a MUTE button! |
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Location: NJ | nice! |
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | I took Alpep`s advice,and took to the standalone route,and even that is mindbogling..... ( invested in a KORG D3200 )
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Location: NJ | I dunno . . . I STILL like using Cubase on the PC.
Once y'get past the initial learning curve, it's really pretty easy. All of the effects and bells&whistles CAN be a bit daunting, but y'don't HAVE t'use 'em (but they DO help you in keeping all of your tracks from sounding "the same" . . .
We just bought a Sony 40" flatscreen, and I suggested putting it in the MusicRoom so that I could use it as a monitor . . .
. . . it's been two weeks, and she's STILL laughing at that one . . . |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | I got the Cubase basic that came ith my new mixing board, loaded it on the computer, and can't even figure out how to open it up.
I suppose it would help if I read the manual.
Printed out it's about 4 1/2 inched thick,
written in Incompra-geek and just sits on the coffee table
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Location: Copenhagen Denmark | Well now Cliff, You should`ve gone the stand- alone route , that tiny little screen on the D3200 might`ve made Mrs.Cliff feel sorry for you ,but hey ,You had to have that gigantic comp.screen.....
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | I have a 26" LCD screen in my studio and I thank the Lord every day that I spent the extra beans to get a bigger monitor.....so easy on the eyes. |
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Location: NJ | Next Tax Season (or Bonus) . . . . |
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Location: south east Michigan | Originally posted by Tupperware:
Brad, When listing to your latest recording I kept wishing for one feature - a MUTE button! Dave, Dave, Dave... You hurt me to the quick brother!
Now I seem to remember offering to get up early and help you tune up all those ukes before you get up in front of all those people to teach. I dunno now. I seem to have somehow lost confidence in whatever modest musical ability I ever had.
I will now be showing up to the tour as a broken man. A mere shell of that coconut-boobed, happy go lucky person I once was.
I think I'll now have to change my name here on the board. Slipkid may have to become... Sadkid.
It's like... how I feel man. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Brad, cheer up....I loved your singing monkeygram! |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Alright you guys, let's see if we can keep one thread on track, wouldja? Man, I just go crazy when the hijackers show up... :rolleyes:
I can't wait for Temp's seminar either. I've just got a ton of home recording questions. Been playing my various gits for over twenty years and never once considered recording. Now, I'm dying to give it a shot but have no idea on where to start. Just seems like there's so many different directions to go in - pc software, stand alone units, hand-helds...do I need condensor mikes, speakers, a mixer...how far down this road am I going to get before my bride hands me my head on a platter for playing games...wouldn't it just be easier to drive to CO and break into T's place while he's away on vacation somewhere...AAAHHHHH!!! |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Originally posted by Weaser P:
wouldn't it just be easier to drive to CO and break into T's place while he's away on vacation somewhere...AAAHHHHH!!! and I thought guitar GAS was bad. Weaze...if your coming to grab my stuff you're gonna need a big truck! Being a gearslutz is worse than a guitar one. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Brad, I forgot about the monkey gram. OK brother, you're back in good graces. Dave |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Originally posted by cliff:
I dunno . . . I STILL like using Cubase on the PC. Damn Cliffy......wish you could be here for a few days longer. It would be cool to have some real talent in my studio :cool:
After a few hours recording we could email the rough mixes back and forth using cubase and submit a couple nice tunes for the next OFC CD. :) |
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Location: NJ | ". . It would be cool to have some real talent in my studio . ."
Yeah, but that would mean bringing Templeman in (flatulent buggah . . .). |
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | "...I have a 26" LCD screen in my studio and I thank the Lord every day that I spent the extra beans to get a bigger monitor.....so easy on the eyes..."
A cheaper setup that works will is to use a dual smaller monitors. I have a set of Dells, a 20" and a 19" flat LCD's. which lets you spread things out quite nicely.
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Wayne....a cheaper setup????
Wouldn't that require 2 video cards and 2 sets of cables? |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Most modern video cards have 2 outputs. So you use 1 card to drive both monitors. Dave |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Guess I need to look into a modern video card.
Never put much importance into one for my DAW....not like I was playing video games and needed fast graphics. |
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Location: closely held secret | You don't need fast graphics... many now have digital outputs along with a VGA out. Make sure if you buy a second monitor that has a digital in. |
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | Right guys, thats what I am doing, one monitor on the digital out and one on the analog. The Dells come with both cables.
I bought a new computer at Christmas and just added the monitor from my old one.
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | You don't need a monitor with digital in. It can be two plain vga ins. Or you can get a $10 digital adapter and just use a plain vga plug. I know that you can put up to 5 cards, each with two outputs into your computer and mix digital and plain vga. I've connected up to 6 monitors at a time to one computer. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Makes it look like nasa. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | My prob is the 26" eats up 70% of the desktop space. Doesn't really leave room for a 2nd monitor unless I set the 2nd a little off to the side. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Get a bigger desk. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Geeks! |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Actually, a 15 inch lcd would go nicely as a pallette monitor next to the 26 incher. You could also get an ergotron stand which could hold both monitors. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Originally posted by Tupperware:
Get a bigger desk. I do have one in the other room that the wife would be happy about me moving. Just not sure it would be a good fit. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Originally posted by an4340:
Actually, a 15 inch lcd would go nicely as a pallette monitor next to the 26 incher. You could also get an ergotron stand which could hold both monitors. Ummmmm...a pallette monitor??? Isn't that what you would typically use for something like Photoshop?
How do you mean it in reference to a DAW? |
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Location: closely held secret | In a DAW you should be able to undock parts and move them to the other monitor. Say, tracks and mixer on one and everything else on the other.
Or, run the DAW on one and a softsynth or Reason or whatever on the other. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | I started using two monitors in the studio a few years back. Don't know how I ever lived on one monitor. I had a pair of BenQ 19" monitors LCD's. The frame is only about 1/2" so spreading things across two monitors is a breeze. I also use Matrox video cards which allow for some really nice layouts. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | I have heard the Matrox video cards were some of the best when it comes to dual monitors.
Don't know if the newer generations from Nvidia and ATI are optimized for this feature or not. |
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Recording at home ?