Live setup and home recording - UK guitar forum for guitar shops, guitar dealers, guitar reviews, guitar technicians, guitar tuition and more

You are not logged in. [Log In] » Forums » UK Guitar Forum » Acoustic Guitar Forum » Live setup and home recording

Who's Online

1 registered (old but not out) and 127 anonymous users online.

Newest Members

Forum Stats

9081 Members
50 Forums
26304 Topics
289025 Posts

Max Online: 390 @ Yesterday at 01:42 PM

Page 1 of 1

Topic Options

Rate This Topic

#273222 - 11/03/10 07:19 AM Live setup and home recording
Bato Bato Be Nice (I'm New!) Registered: 11/03/10 Posts: 1	Hi everyone, I am new member on this forum and recently became owner of Ovation 2006 collectors edition FKOA. The guitar sounds amazing unplugged but its about time to get some more gear for live performance and home recording studio. I already bought small Yamaha mw10c mixer which does not have Hi-z inputs. It can be connected to computer through USB. Can you recomend some good gear for acoustic guitar setup. What I currently have in mind is: guitar - ????? - Mixer - PA - speakers OR guitar - ????? - Mixer - Computer and monitors Do I need acoustic DI between guitar and mixer ex. Fishman Aura Spectrum. Which acoustic effects do you recommend to get some nice sounds? What do you think about TC G Natural? Any recommendation is welcome as I don’t have much experience with acoustic amplification. Regards
Top

Richards Guitars. Faith Guitars Specialist. Call 01789 263333

Dedicated Personalised Service, Unique Levels of Quality Control & Bespoke Professional Setup Included

#273224 - 11/03/10 07:35 AM Re: Live setup and home recording [Re: Bato]
Noise_Maker Noise_Maker Old Timer Registered: 23/10/07 Posts: 1154 Loc: Usually on the Sofa	A decent 2x2 audio interface (such as an M-Audio or Line 6) will allow you to record vocals (mic) and guitar at the same time. I think the M-Audio device is circa £130. You may have something that already does that job. A DAW package (I use Reaper) can be use to record. Reaper has a free trial period (unrestricted) for 30 days. Purchase price around £35. If it helps I can document my setup for you to review. _________________________ Guitars: Cort Earth Grand, Cort G250 RMS, Kimbara Strat Copy, Vester Strat Copy (Stage Series), Custom Build LP Style (By Steve Benford), 'Podcaster' Custom Build prize! (tele Style), Variax 600 Mac based recording and VOX AC4TV
Top

#273229 - 11/03/10 10:19 AM Re: Live setup and home recording [Re: Noise_Maker]
english_bob english_bob Unregistered	The simplest answer in each case is a DI box. If the guitar has an onboard preamp that works well and sounds good, anything above and beyond a bog-standard DI is likely to duplicate what the guitar already does. If the mixer can be connected to the PC anyway, I'd be inclined to ignore separate interfaces for recording and invest in a good quality mic- you can then mix the DI signal from the pickup and the mic together, which ought to get you lots of variations in sound. If you don't really know what you want in terms of effects, I wouldn't advise spending all that money on a G-Natural, it's potentially a lot of overkill if all you end up wanting is a bit of compression and reverb. I've been really impressed with my POD Studio- it has lots of amp and effects modelling stuff that's more useful for electric guitar, but the POD Farm software has lots of studio effects- reverbs, compression, mic preamp models etc that will come in really handy for acoustic. It also comes with bundled recording software. Alternatively, if you're in need of a software recording package, you can download Audacity software for free, which is a pretty good multitrack recorder and mixer.
Top

Page 1 of 1

Previous Topic View All Topics

Moderator: stickyfiddle

Hop to: