Hi everyone I am trying to record MP3s at home on my home PC with microphone. I tried google to get some softwares, I tried Super MP3 it is very good but I am using a trial so it is only allowing continuous 40 seconds. Can you suggest any good freeware or shareware for recording at home. Remi
i have seen many such posts, and i have noticed one common thing in all the posts.. lack of necesarry hardware.. u cannot record with software alone .. u need an interface.. and the default soundcard in your system its not meant for music recording. so you need to spend some money on the hardware first, and also ensure things like your harddisk speed.. it should be at least 7200rpm. ram.. cpu speed etc. and any audio interface will come with support sequencing/recording software. Jay
Thanks Jay, I have a Toshibha satellite it is quite ok, it is P4 3.2 GHz. Microphone also works fine considering I am just doing home recording. I tried recording using windows recorder it pretty sucks. So looking for a better way. Remi
There are a lot of options available.. you can try M-Audio Mobile Pre USB... It is about 135$ and supports 2 inputs the PCI based ones might be cheaper... but USB is more convenient then... you have to buy microphones... you can get decent microphones starting from 150$.. I started with a brand called MXL (cheapest)
Why dont you guys check out my home recordings. Started my own thread. https://indianguitartabs.com/showthread.php?t=8426 Tell me what you think of it . If u guys like it I have no problems giving u a step by step approach to home recording(with bare minimum equipment)
Thanks googly, Jay I have decided to buy M-Audio Fast Track USB (99 $) and a microphone Samson Q7 (90$) from sweetwater. Lemme know if I am missing anything like software ? how is this site sweetwater(I checked ZZounds but felt sweetwater is better)? Remi
i hav creative Sb live..which is still an old one.......and the recordings come out decent....... not studio quality but hey still quiet good for home recordings
Samson Q7 is a vocal mic.. what are you trying to record? I have no idea about the websites.. you can search the website for instrument microphones.. if you need one.. here is a sample recorded using m audio mobile pro - https://s24.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2KA2RDR9ZC27835L3LAJ5U5YQ5
Well I am trying to record Guitar practice and vocals on to my laptop. I found there are many types of microphone, I called customer support of sweetwater they said Samson Q7 would be fine with M-audio. They suggested fast track I squeezed my budget.
Jay, googly I bought m-audio fast track interface and mic from sweetwater. It came with some GT player - Live lite software and when I try to record it is record as a track file (asl format its own format).The software is quite complex and it is more of live mix tool with tracks. Also carton says interface is ideal for garageband and other software Can you please suggest a simple software to record (preferably shareaware) Thanks Remi
There's a program called dbPowerAmp music converter used for ripping music. It comes with a plugin called Auxiliary Input which records from various inputs. Thus you can record and the directly convert it to wave or mp3. (For more you need plugins). Download it from https://www.dbpoweramp.com/
remi, did you try https://sourceforge.net/projects/audacity/ this is freeware - opensource and you can record tracks as mp3s
Well, if you want good shareware then you can try out Sony Sound Forge 8.0 or Sonic Foundry ACID Express.
Thanks all for the response. I tried audacity and its works fine ..importantly it is open source.. Soon I will post my recording.. Has any tried GT express - Live Lite ..it seems to be good but it is for mxing and recording
Has anyone tried this ? https://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/MAudioBlackBox-main.html I am considering to buy it....
