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

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