Extremely Modest budget

[tweetersaway]

Hi,
I want to begin recording, but I have a very modest budget. I have a 5 year old computer and a kareoke machine to record. What is the best free recording program? or the best way to record multiple sounds on tape with two working tape players, and one working tape recorder. Thanks

[Brendo613]

I, too, have a very low budget (being 15 contributes to this). For my recordings I just use one of the electric guitars through a multi-effects pedal (Digitech RP200) and then into the computer. All I needed to buy was an adapter to fit the computers soundcard. This setup works fairly well, I recorded this with this setup: www.soundclick.com/BrendanS (http://www.soundclick.com/BrendanS) .

As far as the program, I use Acid Xpress 3.0. I only have a modem, not some fancy DSL or one of dees instant services, and this program was 30 megabytes, so it took me 2 hours to download. Check it out here: http://www.download.com/Acid-XPress/3000-2170-10228816.html?tag=lst-0-1

This program is everything you just described that you wanted http://www.zentao.com/ubb/smilies/eek.gif I got it because you can record many tracks, play them together, and edit certain parts. Also, volume levels can be changed, so if one track is louder than another, that's as easy as sliding a ... slider http://www.zentao.com/ubb/smilies/rolleyes.gif

I found a little trick that really helps if you do get this program. Whenever you record a track, it asks you what you want to call it and where you want to save it. I recommend making your own separate folder for each song you are working on, and then saving each track of the song in that folder. The reason why is because they're saved as .wav files, and Acid Xpress only lets you convert a final song from the Acid format to .mp3 or another format 20 times, which can easily get run down if you do multiple takes of a song, etc.

I'm assuming you have Windows, and Windows has a program, Windows Sound Recorder (as you probably know http://www.zentao.com/ubb/smilies/tongue.gif ) which can read .wav files. You simply open one .wav file and then mix it with another (play around with the menu, you'll see what I mean), and then you can save the final product.

Only problem is now you have a .wav file, not an .mp3 which you can uploud onto a site like Soundclick. What you then do is get a .wav --> .mp3 converter, like Right Click MP3. That's what I did, and you can get it free from here: http://www.download.com/RightClick-MP3/3000-2140-10104982.html?tag=lst-0-4

This should be enough to keep you busy for a while http://www.zentao.com/ubb/smilies/movingeyes.gif

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