Making a start

[joleyxcross]

Hey I'm a songwriter from leeds in the north of England, I've always written for live bands and I'v just gotten round to the idea of recording and sending music to more commercial sources, I've gutted my old music room and made way for a new recording room, sans water cooler and well who knows, basket ball hoop, stripper pole (is that actually the name, or can it just be a normal pole? maybe any pole with a stripper attached automatically becomes a stripper pole? still it seems like iv forgotten the actual name for a pole with a stripper, add a fireman to the situation and its just too much arm chair philosophy for me to handle at four twenty in the morning) anyway, its not got those things, and by the way im sure most dont but i had the unfortunate experience of being subjected to 'cribs' earlier, the most ghastly show with alot of rap artists showing off their music equipment cars and stripper/fireman poles. some also had water coolers...POINT IS!I havn't the foggiest clue about recording, I was wondering A if anyone could point me in the right direction information/book wise and maybe if anyone has any thoughts on a good set up, for someone whos a begginer but can get a good grip on new tech stuff quite quickly, and who dosn't want the finished product to sound 'begginer' I was thinking about a power mac and logic? but i wouldn't mind a step in the right direction, thanks for getting this far, sorry about the rant earlier.... all the finest wishes Joley

[alterboy]

He Joley. I learned by reading the guides from www.tweakheadz.com the site is a bit jumbled but the guide is a good start. Other than that I would get a DAW first and then buy a book on that daw and go for it. I haven't found any shortcuts better than recording music.

[dryan]

Hello and welcome. There are plenty of resources available for learning what you should try to accomplish first. The Taxi Forums is a great place to start. As anywhere you go though, you will find many different pieces of advice as to what is the best way to do what you want. So here is mine to start...1. Unless you have an endless supply of money, educate yourself before making a purchase. Read everything you can. Recording magazine (from the States) is a great magazine for just that. You can also start with these... www.tweakheadz.com (as already mentioned)www.soundonsound.com/articles/SoundAdvi ... ngmag.com2. Decide what kind of studio you primarily want to have... recording, mixing, mastering, or whatever. Find someone who does what you'd like to do. Learn from their mistakes.3. Take advice from people that don't do what you'd like to with a grain of salt. I could tell you what mics to buy, but I honestly don't know what would be best (or even good for that matter). A Mac or PC or Digital Workstation will work for you. All major DAWs can do what you'd like it too.4. Ask for studio suggestions from many people, noting what things to look out for the most. Note also what things that is agreed upon.So.....What do you want to do? Record one person? A band? Are you looking for portability? What budget range are you considering? www.sweetwater.com has bundles of gear to purchase or maybe you'd use www.turnkey.co.ukWhatever you want to do, the Taxi community is full of people who help others to succeed.dr

[timbehrens]

Hey Joley,Just wanted to share a few thoughts with you. I just recently upgraded some of my recording gear and did a fair amount of reading online. In addition to the other sites mentioned here, I found www.gearslutz.com helpful. There is a lot of talk there about budget studios and comparisons of different products. Another trick I like to use is making use of Google's search features. You can use google to search forums by including the 'site:www.example.com' in your search. For example, I was just recently looking into Dynaudio monitors and did this search on Google:site:www.gearslutz.com Dynaudioand it brought up a list of all topics on that site that mention Dynaudio. I use that for searching a lot of forums as Google tends to work better than built-in search features.Hope that makes sense. I've got to second the soundonsound site as a great resource. I was just reading a series under their articles there on sound and it covered a lot of the technical stuff behind compression, equalization, noise gates... all things that I need to know about if I ever want to be successful with my recordings.Anyways, best of luck with everything.