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16 Oct 2008

Live Recording

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Posted By : Scott - Metalleeka | Comments : 3

Anyone got any tips for recording straight from the desk so that I can then insert the tracks into cakewalk?

I do a lot of home recording on the pc but have limited knowledge on how to record live.
I was thinking of trying to get a hold of a digital hdd recorder with 8 inputs which would allow us to capture 3 drum tracks, bass, guitar and 3 vocals.

The idea would be to record 8 seperate tracks onto hard disk so that I can then mix down each track individually into Cakewalk and then work my magic :)

Has anyone tried this in practice?
If so, what make and model of recorder did you use?

thanks

Scott

Comments

# Posted by Kingpin (Keith) - 26/10/2008, 22:30 (GMT)

Hi Scott, im not sure what you mean by "playing live" do you mean all at once or each play and record the parts seprastely which I think is the only way you could do it.does your desk have a record out, if so you could record one track at a time but you would have to play the track several times to get all the parts. Why not just record the drums and vocals and add the rest at home, you could record the guitar parts and bass directly into cakewalk?

# Posted by Scott - Metalleeka - 27/10/2008, 09:34 (GMT)

sorry, I should have said "live drums"
I've always used drum machines and drum samples over the years, but I would love to be able to put real playing on a real kit.

I know I'll never be able to replicate the sounds that I use from my samples, but I just feel that no matter how good they sound, I can never replicate the passion and fills of actually playing the kit.

# Posted by Conky - 09/11/2008, 17:16 (GMT)

I use a MOTU and patch 8 direct inputs from the desk using a Behringer 2442. The MOTU connects direct to a pc via USB.

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