The Mrs. and I were at home the other night and realized that the present band we are working with has been taking up some of our free time to work on our Splitting Hares project - which is basically the two of us continuing to explore and learn about the wonderful world of home recording. She recently acquired a nice Ludwig Classic Maple kit and I, as many know, a LP Gold Top Deluxe. Having had these goodies for a few months now, we decided, "Hey, we need to record something." So we fired up the Yamaha AW, set some mics up, and picked an early favorite Cheap Trick song named Elo Kiddies to cover. I haven't posted it on our Soundclick sight but it is the first song on our My Space profile if anyone wishes to take a listen.
The drums were recorded first while I played a scratch guitar track running direct. The scratch track was dumped after the drums were laid down. I recorded the guitar thru my Fender Bandmaster Reverb Silverface, the overdrive is from my Digitech RP6. Used a 57 close mic on one of the cab speakers, maybe 2" away at around 4 o'clock angled outwards a little. Also used an MXL 992 condensor room mic about 4' way from the cabinet. We overdubbed the vocals and a simple bass line later and added a little reverb/delay from our Alesis Midiverb 4 to the lead vocal track.
Anyway, nothing fancy guitar wise. Just a straight ahead rocker that we enjoyed laying down. Hope you enjoy!
Thanks guys! We really enjoy learning more and more about recording as we go along - we find we listen to music in a whole different way since we started doing this.
The stuff I hear coming from those stand alone DAWs always sound better to me than the computer DAWs. Maybe you just know what you're doing.
Ever since we got the Yamaha I am amazed at what it can do - but I really have no basis of comparing it with anything else. We are starting to record with the other band now and one of the guys has a nice set up at home on his Mac. I am really liking what we are hearing so far and he is starting to educate me on his system as well. As far as knowing what I am doing - well, there is no formal training there - I have just tried to pay close attention to what others have generously shared here and in some other areas on the net. That and LOTS of trial and error!
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Nice work after your DAW dust-off!
Yeah...the standalone DAWs make things a bit easier (do a degree) over a computer where you have install software and configure hardware...etc... ...but in the end, both will yield similar results assuming they have equal quality electronics.
The only down side of standalone...is that you have to replace the whole thing to upgrade (most cases)...but then hey, if it's a good one and running fine...there's no need to keep upgrading. My computer DAW is about 6-7 years old...but it still does the job.
Miro and rw2003 - thanks so much! Miro, one of the other disadvantages of the standalone (at least this one - not so sure about some others) is the editing is sometimes a pain - it is a very small screen and navigation is sometimes a little time consuming.
Having had these goodies for a few months now, we decided, "Hey, we need to record something." So we fired up the Yamaha AW, set some mics up, and picked an early favorite Cheap Trick song named Elo Kiddies to cover. I haven't posted it on our Soundclick sight but it is the first song on our My Space profile if anyone wishes to take a listen.
Hope you enjoy!
