Help with recording to PC

[paulm12]

My problem is that when I record my acoustic guitar and vocals using my PC mic I can never get a good vocal sound. What I want to do is use the PC mic to record the guitar and a vocal mic for the vocals. However my laptop only has 1 port for plugging in a mic..............how can i record from both mics at the same time?????????????////

Thanks

[moaner]

don't.

go to the audacity thread and download that peice of software. Then, record them one at a time.

sorted.

[paulm12]

thanks for your reply..........i use goldwave, i can use it to record seperatley, but i find i can't apply the same meaning and emotion if I record them seperatley........................................ .....

[theabstract]

then buy a usb soundcard with multiple inputs and 2 mics. There is no way to record using both the computer mic and an external mic unfortunately.

[theabstract]

don't.

go to the audacity thread and download that peice of software. Then, record them one at a time.

sorted.

Audacity...pffft. Cubase SX is where its at biatches :cool:

[KKKKKocaine]

Audacity...pffft. Cubase SX is where its at biatches :cool:

Yeah but Cubase SX 3 has MIDI and MIDI is useless. :p

[Moseph]

a few other options exist here...

1) You can get a stereo joiner (a sort of y-adapter) which combines two mono signals to one stereo signal. Assuming you can keep the levels f/ clipping, you can then set your computer to record in stereo, and you'll effectively get the left channel being one signal (say, voice), and the right channel being the other signal (say, guitar). I would 2TS to TRS connections are in the range of $10 @ various locations (Radio Shack etc).

2) You can spend a little more money and get a cheap two channel analog mixer (for less money than a USB interface): All you need is two inputs and stereo out. Then you can take the stereo out f/ the mixer directly into your computer. The advantage here is that you can assign each signal to far left/right, as in above, or you can mix it in real time (if you want to do any track editing, do it left/right and mix w/ software).

[Moseph]

Yeah but Cubase SX 3 has MIDI and MIDI is useless. :p

Read the audacity dev/user forums: people are working on implementing MIDI to audacity, just not the main devs @ the moment. I would expect MIDI implementation will be top priority after they finish the designs for plug-in GUIs and automations.

Also, Cubase SX 3 costs several hundred dollars, and has been developed over the past few decades by a large corporation devoting millions of dollars of R&D annually into it. Audacity's development started as a graduate student's project in 1999, and has been developed by interested programmers in their free time @ no cost. It only makes sense that Cubase SX is a more powerful tool: it's got more time and money put into it by more people who are trying to make it the best. Audacity is just trying to be functional and affordable: it's powerful, but still in the infancy stages of what professionals would consider a reasonable tool to keep in the studio.

[KKKKKocaine]

Read the audacity dev/user forums: people are working on implementing MIDI to audacity, just not the main devs @ the moment. I would expect MIDI implementation will be top priority after they finish the designs for plug-in GUIs and automations.

Also, Cubase SX 3 costs several hundred dollars, and has been developed over the past few decades by a large corporation devoting millions of dollars of R&D annually into it. Audacity's development started as a graduate student's project in 1999, and has been developed by interested programmers in their free time @ no cost. It only makes sense that Cubase SX is a more powerful tool: it's got more time and money put into it by more people who are trying to make it the best. Audacity is just trying to be functional and affordable: it's powerful, but still in the infancy stages of what professionals would consider a reasonable tool to keep in the studio.

I was joking :p

[theabstract]

lol, i knew you were joking. Hey did you know some people seriously think midi only goes as far as general midi sound? fools. lol. Hey speaking of midi, i just got a second computer for my studio and i have it syncronised with the old one via a midi cable. So now i have 20 ins :cool:

[paulm12]

a few other options exist here...

1) You can get a stereo joiner (a sort of y-adapter) which combines two mono signals to one stereo signal. Assuming you can keep the levels f/ clipping, you can then set your computer to record in stereo, and you'll effectively get the left channel being one signal (say, voice), and the right channel being the other signal (say, guitar). I would 2TS to TRS connections are in the range of $10 @ various locations (Radio Shack etc).

2) You can spend a little more money and get a cheap two channel analog mixer (for less money than a USB interface): All you need is two inputs and stereo out. Then you can take the stereo out f/ the mixer directly into your computer. The advantage here is that you can assign each signal to far left/right, as in above, or you can mix it in real time (if you want to do any track editing, do it left/right and mix w/ software).


thank you very very very much!!!!! :D