Category: Geeks r Us
Some people in my church's youth choir want the choir to record a CD for this summer's Choir Tour. I volunteered to supervise and produce the recording if it fell through. Now here's the question. What is a good and easy-to-use product that I can learn in a couple of weeks? I'm also looking for one that is studio-quality; I want the best for this choir. I was thinking of GoldWave or Sound Forge, but I know there are others. I would like your recommendations because if we want to record, I have to get started now. Any help will be appreciated.
cakewalk is also a very good piece of software. there are minor issues with it with regard to its accessibility with jfw, but it is doable with a little bit of patience. - if you want to listen to an example of a recording done on cakewalk take a listen to my audio profile, that was recorded on cakewalk, and I am by no means a professional. hth
Well for my recording I use CDEx but I'm totally not professional lol! But I've heard Sound Forge is very good as well. Hope this helps, and good luck!
It depends on what you want to do. CDex is fine if you don't want to edit your work. Sound Forge is awesome for editting. Cakewalk is good if you want it to be like a real studio where you can dubb over yourself. With Cakewalk, you can go back and redo specific sections and record multiple tracks (meaning two things together, like you could record a drumb track and then play the guitar over it afterward). Cakewalk/Sonar is very expensive though for choir work. Also make sure you have good mics.
Goldwave is also good, I know some people who use it and have heard the resulting recordings, which sound not bad. I wish CDEx could edit though. Most everyone seems to use Sound Forge for editing stuff. Cake Walk sounds cool for producing music, so you could like do drums, piano, guitar, singing, etc, and then fit them together. But that's just me. I don't have any of these but CDEx...
I'm leaning toward CakeTalking for Sonar.
ah yeh, that's one up from cakewalk pro audio 9 which is the one I use. I've heard good things about it on the accessibility level as well.
Cakewalk all the way, we're just beginning to use Sonar 4 .. which is probably way more than you need and it's $500 Product, I'd say get Sonar 2 e.g. or even Cakewalk 9 .. a hundered to 200 dollars, get good condencer mics to record, There are Russian mics called Octavo that Guitar Center sells, they are really good, they run around $80 to $150 I think a piece, and they are a lot better, in my opinion than the $400 Rhodes microphones, we've used both, sm-57 is not bad either and it's $70 deal, but for professional sound I'd go with a condencer I think.
Eight hundred bucks? Wow! Must be good! I hope it would be good and accessible if someone went and paid all that good money for it! Man! Will be interestedd to hear what you end up getting RM, and how it works.
Or, you could buy an all-in-one multitrack recorder with a CDR drive, like the Tascam 2488, and learn to use it. I've used one for about a year for field work, and it's very nice! It comes with everything you need except microphones to do a mixed and mastered cd project.
Ooh man I want that I want that...
Well, if you weren't so young, and had to rely on parental fundage, I'd sell it to you!
Would you really?
I said that to Caitlin, but yes, the truth is, I'm looking to sell it. It's on Ebay right now, but hasn't gotten a bid yet.
Lol thanks anyway Krajiel! Heh, i'd buy it if I could, and if I had a real use fori t. I mean I'd love to fool with it but yeah! Heh!
Yeah! $900's a little steep for a 14-year-old.