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If you just want to record some guitar tracks it takes almost no knowledge whatsoever. It's pretty basic with Garageband out of the box.

Conky,

I think you'd be fine with any of the newish MacBook Pros. Doesn't have to be a Retina or anything, I'm talking like just baseline MacBook Pro. Easy to max out RAM later on if you wish and you can upgrade the hard drive at any point in time if you want. Won't run games but I don't think you give a shit about that. Biggest problem would be CPU bottle neck if you're trying to record the whole band live -- Skip might have more insight as far as that area goes.

If you pick up something used/older than you should ideally aim for 2010-sh or newer to get some life out of it. If you're planning on going new pleas consider PMing me as I may be able to assist you further.

Yeah if your just doing guitar tracks its no biggy, super simple and easy. My six months was more jumping into recording full on albums and learning mixing, signal paths, fx chains, how to properly produce a mix for mastering, etc , etc.

And your spot on right about the MacBook pros, the CPU bottle neck shouldn't be an issue as since 09 they used multi core processors like PC's that have pretty much eliminated that to my knowledge.

D.o.S. wrote:Agreed. Getting the right interface for what you want to do is another huge part of it, too. For me,I'm running oscillators and delay pedals into a PC that really isn't optimized for recording, so being able to monitor what's going on independently of the DAW was a must. All I use Ableton for, more or less, is arming the track and recording it, but all my sonic architecture stuff is happening outside of it.

I imagine having to record my bass rig into my current setup would be hair-pullingly annoying, but I've got engineer friends with their own recording rigs (who are way, way better at that shit than I am) that I can avail myself of, you know?

Very much agreed on the interface, I use tascam stuff due to cost to input ratio. They aren't the best preamp's but they do just fine for my shitty mixes. As far as ableton its almost overly complicated for just simple arm and record, but it does that excellently. I use it for full on recording of albums and songs and its intuitive GUI is so much easier to navigate than PT.

With out atleast a 2 channel interface and a decent mic yeah it would be annoying, and if you have someone you can easily visit with a better recording rig than you don't need more.

Oh, yeah, there's songs in there too, they're just being mixed as much as possible before they hit the PC.

...and they all sound like bad covers of Hawkwind interludes.

Any chance of a Holy Mountain gutshot? Also are the graphics screen printed?

Anyone else going to see Skully in DC tonight? If so, y'all should meet up for bong rips beforehand because I can't drink.

Could barely get everything stuffed into my car last night. To the point that my wife has to carefully rest her feet on top of my Verellen head in the passenger seat cause there was no room in back for it

PS Boatrich what time are you getting there? I'll be getting in around 7p- if I give you a Dirge shirt will you help me load in? My wife is pregnant and I could use the help haha

skullservant wrote:PS Boatrich what time are you getting there? I'll be getting in around 7p- if I give you a Dirge shirt will you help me load in? My wife is pregnant and I could use the help haha

I can definitely try for seven. I have to figure out where this place is first.

hahhaha me too

BoatRich wrote:Anyone else going to see Skully in DC tonight? If so, y'all should meet up for bong rips beforehand because I can't drink.

If me and the wife weren't feeling extremely under the weather I'd definitely come out, but as it sits I'll be lucky to stay awake through the end of my shift.

skullservant wrote:hahhaha me too

Looked at the map on their website and honestly got more confused? I've been to a show here before I just can't remember where it is

Feel better Skip!! Tell wifey I said to feel better too.

And that's funny BoatRich hahaha. I don't frequent DC that often, so this should be fun

I would totally come help you out skully, if I didn't live on the opposite side of the country.

Corey Y wrote:I would totally come help you out skully, if I didn't live on the opposite side of the country.

I appreciate it buddy

good luck tonight Skully...wish I could witness the awesomeness you're going to put down on that stage!

samzadgan wrote:I dont know what it is about me...maybe im just tech-idiot...i can never work out recording software and when i read up on it, it all just sounds so complicated thats its overwhelming. I got a mac thinking i would start recording etc but just ended up giving up on the idea as it seemed like such a stretch for me.

How long did it take you guys to get with recording software? Half the stuff i dont understand because ive never recorded in a studio either, so the terminology is way over my head.

I never bothered with mac cause I hate everything about it.

But with the first thing I ever used and had... took me a 2 min tutorial from the guy who hooked me up with the program. it was cool edit pro2. So overall it's been very easy.

Less reading about doing it and more doing shit and weeding out what doesn't work and keeping what does.