Home-studio multitrackins

[poeticdrums]

Hello everyone. I have just started to really get into home recording. I've got myself some decent equipment at my hands, but having a mixer to do all my recording just isn't cutting it anymore. I want the ability to add effects to each individual channel and edit each channel, but you can't do that with a mixer cause it's just one stereo source coming out. I was wondering, what could I buy to make mulitracking possible?

Are there any USB mulitrackers cause I use my thinkpad laptop for all of my recording. I tried musiciansfriend just to get an idea, but all of their mulitrackers only have I think 4 XLR inputs at most, and seeing as how I'm a drummer I'm gonna need at least 10 for myself

-thanks in advance

[Moseph]

Presonus, Tascam, Yamaha, M-Audio, Fostex, and Echo all have firewire options that are under 1000 dollars US that will support 8+ channels.

[guitarbaz]

Hello everyone. I have just started to really get into home recording. I've got myself some decent equipment at my hands, but having a mixer to do all my recording just isn't cutting it anymore. I want the ability to add effects to each individual channel and edit each channel, but you can't do that with a mixer cause it's just one stereo source coming out. I was wondering, what could I buy to make mulitracking possible?

Are there any USB mulitrackers cause I use my thinkpad laptop for all of my recording. I tried musiciansfriend just to get an idea, but all of their mulitrackers only have I think 4 XLR inputs at most, and seeing as how I'm a drummer I'm gonna need at least 10 for myself

-thanks in advance

i'm just getting back into the home recording too after a few years off, quite handy you can get mixers that connect on a firewire to enable true simultaneous multi track recording. i've only used a similar method of playing into a desk but only having the stereo outputs from it. which just means that you got to get the drum sounds just right before you record them as there's no way of separating and tweaking after. do-able but not the best.but that's a low cost option anyway if you don;t want to spend too much.

what's the spec of the laptop you're using and what software? i'm looking at exactly the same setup, i've just tried it using my work laptop and it was a revelation but i'll need my own if i'm to do it seriously again.

[poeticdrums]

I've got an IBM Thinkpad T41 series. 512 MB of Ram
30 gig harddrive
1.6 Ghz centrino processor

Only two USB ports :(

I've been using adobe audtition 1.5 for recording and I love it.

[guitarbaz]

I've got an IBM Thinkpad T41 series. 512 MB of Ram
30 gig harddrive
1.6 Ghz centrino processor

Only two USB ports :(

I've been using adobe audtition 1.5 for recording and I love it.

sounds like a hub might be in order, 2 usb ports is a bit of a bind.

i've used cakewalk in the past but i'm thinking there may be some better stuff around now as its an old version, i'll take a look at that one..cheers