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Post subject: New song and I need recording advice!
Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2014 5:02 am
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Of course,kinda unfinished but I would like you to hear it and tell me what do you think about it https://soundcloud.com/venysonn/enliven
If you listened you probably heard that sound quality isnt the best.Is is possible to make a professional sounding song by using audacity or reaper? I am really not experienced when it comes to recording so give me some advices please! Just some tips or something like that.I only plan on recording 2 guitars and maybe some ambient background noises but I want it to sound full and professional.And I know,Google is my friend.Thanks a lot :)


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Post subject: Re: New song and I need recording advice!
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2014 9:47 am
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How are you inputting the audio into Audacity? It is possible to make good recordings with it so long as you have a good interface. The stock on-board soundcards in most computers are NOT going to give good results.


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Post subject: Re: New song and I need recording advice!
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2014 11:13 am
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brotherdave wrote:
How are you inputting the audio into Audacity? It is possible to make good recordings with it so long as you have a good interface. The stock on-board soundcards in most computers are NOT going to give good results.

They've come a long way, but the OSes (especially Windows and MacOS) lag behind, and tend to want to lock primary interfaces to 16 bit 48 kHz by default, which means if you don't bypass the OS' mixer, everything will be resampled, usually at quite bad quality loss. Working in 24-bit 88.2 kHz won't help much if the OS resamples all sound through 16/48 going both in and out.
The settings for changing this can be buried quite deep in subpanes of subwindows. Make sure the bit rate frequency matches what you work with (or even multiples, like 96 or 192 kHz if you work in 48), and that the bits per sample is set as high as possible.


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Post subject: Re: New song and I need recording advice!
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2014 4:54 pm
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brotherdave wrote:
How are you inputting the audio into Audacity? It is possible to make good recordings with it so long as you have a good interface. The stock on-board soundcards in most computers are NOT going to give good results.


I use my fender g-dec 15 w amp. I just need something to record the clean+some solo leads.No heavy distortions or something like that.

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brotherdave wrote:
How are you inputting the audio into Audacity? It is possible to make good recordings with it so long as you have a good interface. The stock on-board soundcards in most computers are NOT going to give good results.

They've come a long way, but the OSes (especially Windows and MacOS) lag behind, and tend to want to lock primary interfaces to 16 bit 48 kHz by default, which means if you don't bypass the OS' mixer, everything will be resampled, usually at quite bad quality loss. Working in 24-bit 88.2 kHz won't help much if the OS resamples all sound through 16/48 going both in and out.
The settings for changing this can be buried quite deep in subpanes of subwindows. Make sure the bit rate frequency matches what you work with (or even multiples, like 96 or 192 kHz if you work in 48), and that the bits per sample is set as high as possible.


I will do my research on this.really never thought about it.Thanks! :)


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