[linux-audio-user] Need help - hardware recommendations

[Darren Landrum]

I would like to reiterate how much I like the sound you got form the
drums. It sounds so natural, and quite perfect for the type of music
you're doing.

-- Darren


>Jan \Evil Twin\ Depner
> Anthony,
>
> 	Thanks.  If you had any idea how clueless I am at this moment you
> probably wouldn't ask for the info.  This is really the first time I
> have recorded a session.
>
> 	We did the rhythm guitar, bass, and drums together (in the drummers
> living room with his kids going crazy in the next room).  I had my
> computer with an ST-Audio C-Port DSP 2000, a cheap little 6 input
> Behringer mixer, a Behringer 4 channel headphone amp, a Hughes &
> Kettner Red Box for the bass, and a Digitech RP-100 for the guitar.  I
> recorded the bass and guitar direct.  I used two cheap (Marshall)
> overhead
> condenser mics for the drums (about 2 meters up and slighty back of the
> drummer) and a Shure SM57 on the kick.  We recorded the vocals on one
> of the Marshall mics next.  We recorded one lead guitar track there and
> then I did all the rest in my living room using the RP-100 while
> annoying my wife to no end (I made my own guitar and it's a semi-hollow
> body so she could here me noodling away while she was trying to watch
> Emeril Live).  Total time recording was about 8 hours for the basics
> and then I spent a few more hours doing the lead stuff.  Many hours
> trying to get a decent mix.  I used Ardour, Audacity, and Normalize for
> everything.
>
> Jan