Recording equipment

[Rosie]

Hello,

I want to do some basic audio recording at home of vocals, and some with my band.

I have microphones and everything, but I wondered if anybody knew what recording equipment I would need?

I don't want to spend hundreds of pounds on it, but I would like a decent quality recording, and it would be useful if I could plug it into my computer, and end up with an mp3 file.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thank you.

[Darren]

Always wanted an Edirol R09 but there quite expensive.
What about a Zoom H2, on ebay for a bit cheaper £129.99, you may find it even cheaper else where?!?!

Is that the kind of thing your looking for?

[tommyjohnson]

It all depends how you want to do it.

You can buy computer software that is basically multi-track recording software. This enables you to record, edit and mix to mp3 and usually can be bought for a good price. This would be great with a half-decent mic to record your vocals. I have used it before to put down a little acoustics and drums and bass etc.

I would suggest that sort of technique rather than any other, very easy to record with and mix into an mp3 and you can do as many takes as you want and manipulate the recordings. Might be harder with a full band but you can set it up like a live gig and record that way.

www.cakewalk.com/default.asp - Take a look at that, they usually have a good range of products.