For years, I used a shitty 750mhz p3 running Windows XP with 256 megs of Ram, an Maudio AudioPhille 24/96k Recording card and Sound Forge.

These days I'm using an AMD 4600+, w/4 gigs of ram, XP same card as above and Sound Forge.

Once the mix is recorded, I normall roll off anything thats 20hz and down, cause is just noise and muddys up the mix. Boost some mids and some of the highs and I'm done. I'll post a picture of my EQ settings when I get home.

I know some people will master an entire mix from start to finish.. Im kinda lazy.

What about you?

We used to use and old P3 866Mhz / 256MB ram, 20GB Hd Laptop... with windows 2000 until the screen decided to start going intermittent and finally kicked the bucket

When I started waaaay back. I used a Pentium Pro 200mhz and 64megs of ram to do 16bit recordings same card to record and those sounded pretty good.

Honestly, it doesn't take a monster machine to record or play.

editing on the other hand can happen, but its just sloooooow.

soundforge on anything p4 or higher with 512 or more ram

so i use a

laptop
Fujitsu A1110-72 (Intel Core 2 Duo T5800 Processor 3GB RAM 250GB Hard Drive Windows Vista Premium

and rca to the mic in.
wah wah...
with soundforge

ive been recording and recording but it always has extra crakles and pops that make it sound nasty...
ive been trying to put out a mix for a good while now, but hearing my shitty sound quality makes me not wanna post them just yet...

when i went to the goverment controlled event last month, i noticed a m-audio interface, which i know improves quality...

do yall know which one it was that yall use?

and how can i improve my sound now without the interface?

and its not the tables, needles or mixer cause i have perfect sound coming through my speakers as i play.

use a firewire or usb2.0 converter card. Problem solved.. you can get them from guitar center.

record with audacity. normalize. upload. share.

Adobe Audition w/ m-audio delta 66

duhrdy; what version of audacity are you using and when you say normalize is that in the edit menu? cause i sometimes have the same problem as mluna, playback sounds like garbage. i did record one this weekend that sounded ok. and i know to get them flawless would be a large investment on my part. so im all about audacity for now. if theres any tips you can give me on this it would be much appreciated mang.

just check your line-in levels and make sure they're not too low or too high and clipping the recording.

normalize will take the median of the peaks and valleys of your recording and make them the same consistent volume. its under effects or sumthin. i'm not at home atm so i dont have the program to open and tell ya.

and i have the newest Audacity as far as i know. i think i DLed it like 3 months ago.

Viral, yea, justin said it. Even if you mixer is at 0db when recording, if your line-in levels are off it'll either over drive the signal giving you bad sound, not enough signal means you can't hear anything.

this sort of thing also applies to the radio station as well.

right, thats why i was asking, just wanted to make sure. i figured out how to not make it clip but i still have a slight fuzz. im gonna try the normalizer when i get home and ill let you guys know how it sounds! thanks! also kdh, are we still on fo the test run this afternoon?

what time? Im at work (haha..) and I have a meeting to be at in a few minutes. how about a little after 5pm CEN time?

yeah viral, normalize will basicly fix alot of sounds after u record but it wont "equalize" each song to song to sound the same ( volume, lows, highs wise). thats when u go through ur recorded session and really try to equalize the whole mixx to be at the same volume..song by song. and try not to clip or it will sound like cripe..trust me i used to do all the time till i found out the difference between clipped and not clipped.

btw... im using audacity as well atm, i was using audition which really rocks but my last virus killed that for me

k well, i am having technical difficulties at the moment. just reformated and installed a fresh XP. and last night it was running fine. i got winamp and u know all the other crap i(or we) want cluttering our desktops, and now it wont even load a damn page. im a little pissed. back shortly

i had an issue with the shoucast dsp.. kurt told me to erase and re install and worked good for me yesterday.. add/remove programs through ontrol panel and try again man...

Viral, AIM me or drop me an email and I can work with you to resolve the issues.

audacity or ableton.. i switch back and forth.. and a Yamaha Audiogram3..

i use acid to make tunes and also to record my dj sets since it woks just like soundforge. It renders to mp3 320 in a breeze as well as multiple other formats. Ive been using that prgrm for ages

acids always been great.. thats what i first started recording on 3 years ago - then switched to audition..

Use anything that you are comfortable with working with. I like to use Soundforge or Cubase either way it will do the same job at the end of the day...I would not always go the Normalzing route try eqing it proper before you just go out and start boosting levels...

We use Cubase, on our 'music production computer', which has an Intel E8500 processor, 4 gigs RAM, windows XP, and NOT CONNECTED TO THE INTERNET! (its also our machine for producing tracks!)
Inevitable editing of shotty mixes (to my ears), sometimes even the slightest hint of reverb gives it that "live" sound. (Gotta be careful tho, it will make some tracks bass go boom). Even slighter EQing (depending on what sources we're using, vinyl, WAV, Mp3, etc.) and I call it a day.

audacity with my audigy 2 zs platinum sound card.