sooperunkn
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Anyone else have one of these?
I finally upgraded my computer (after 7 years) and I decided it was time for the Firepod. I can record 8 channels at one time!!
1 - lead guitar
2 - rhythm guitar
3 - bass guitar
4 - lead vocals
5 - kick drum
6 - snare drum
7 and 8 - above cymbals
I've been using Cakewalk which is great and can basically support an infinite amount of tracks but your limited by your soundcard as to how many you can record simultaneously. Your average soundcard has just 1 input and its analog to digital conversion is usually not that great.
We used to just hang a condenser mic in the middle of the room and record our practices... but obviously the quality was never great. When we record demos the drums are always the biggest challenge. If you don't have the mix perfect before you record then you have to keep going back and tweaking and tweaking. And I've got one of those rare "impatient" drummers (LOL!!) so we're always compromising the quality of the drums tracks.
Now I can record every practice and jam session and F with them afterwards (mixing, panning, filtering, adding effects to individual tracks, etc.) to see if there's any usable stuff or try something we missed during the jam (like adding delay to the lead guitar). Typically when we just jam there's always some cool stuff that never sounds that cool during playback because you can't pick out the nuances or F with the levels. Then we'll be like... "well I guess it wasn't that good" and toss the ideas. That's what I'm most excited about... not being so quick to toss an idea that we know is good but just may need some tweaking to spark another idea or give us a different point of view about the song!!
I finally upgraded my computer (after 7 years) and I decided it was time for the Firepod. I can record 8 channels at one time!!
1 - lead guitar
2 - rhythm guitar
3 - bass guitar
4 - lead vocals
5 - kick drum
6 - snare drum
7 and 8 - above cymbals
I've been using Cakewalk which is great and can basically support an infinite amount of tracks but your limited by your soundcard as to how many you can record simultaneously. Your average soundcard has just 1 input and its analog to digital conversion is usually not that great.
We used to just hang a condenser mic in the middle of the room and record our practices... but obviously the quality was never great. When we record demos the drums are always the biggest challenge. If you don't have the mix perfect before you record then you have to keep going back and tweaking and tweaking. And I've got one of those rare "impatient" drummers (LOL!!) so we're always compromising the quality of the drums tracks.
Now I can record every practice and jam session and F with them afterwards (mixing, panning, filtering, adding effects to individual tracks, etc.) to see if there's any usable stuff or try something we missed during the jam (like adding delay to the lead guitar). Typically when we just jam there's always some cool stuff that never sounds that cool during playback because you can't pick out the nuances or F with the levels. Then we'll be like... "well I guess it wasn't that good" and toss the ideas. That's what I'm most excited about... not being so quick to toss an idea that we know is good but just may need some tweaking to spark another idea or give us a different point of view about the song!!
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