Guitar101
Moderator   Posts: 461 Registered: 12/22/2003 Status: Offline
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 posted on 6/9/2007 at 17:36 |
Just wondering how many of you guys or gals are recording by yourself
meaning drums,bass,"guitar of Course" vocals etc...
I record alot and have used drum machines but here lately the best method
is real audio loops and you can't tell that you don't have a real
drummer...Really... Check out Beta Monkey Music
http://www.betamonkeymusic.com/
I love their loops the best I heard yet. So all you need is a good computer
recording software " I like Cakewalk Sonar", some drum loops in the style
you like, a bass guitar, your guitar and maybe some vocals and your on your
way. Well I should mention you will need a decent computer with a good
sound card.
You will get some amazing results and noone will know since there's no
machines. I personally hate drum machines and everyone can tell it's a
machine. "Stiff Sounding" The great thing about using real audio drum loops
is you can cut, copy, and past the loops and write song after song without
losing focus working on everything but the guitar. Give it a shot and post
your songs here. I wrote 4 songs today without my band and the drummer is
amazed by the loops. ____________________
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GuitarMuscle
Captain   Posts: 160 Registered: 5/4/2004 Status: Offline |
posted on 6/11/2007 at 16:55, Reply 1 |
I checked out some of the sample loops at betamonkey and they sound
awesome, I have some acid rock loops I mess around with.
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Bill15
First Lieutenant  Posts: 15 Registered: 6/29/2007 Status: Offline |
posted on 8/7/2007 at 23:01, Reply 2 |
You guys or anybody know where I can get free drum loops that you can
customize the tempo? I particularly need any rock drum beat at 76 bpm.
Thanks
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Spidercents
Moderator  Posts: 1011 Registered: 7/29/2004 Status: Offline |
posted on 8/7/2007 at 23:58, Reply 3 |
Mixcraft 3 is free to try...it has real live drum loops however if you want
to share your music and put it in mp3 format you need to buy it...its
really cheap though.
Its a multitrack recording software with drum loops and bass loops.
Screenshot
http://1000watts.proboards21.com/index.cgi?board=mr&action=
display&thread=1177038701
Sample of songs the songs I wrote using the real live drum loops...and yes
you can change the tempo of the loops.
http://travtale.dmusic.com/music/ ____________________
Treat people the way you would want to be treated.
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bobdaigle
First Lieutenant  Posts: 20 Registered: 8/22/2007 Status: Offline |
posted on 8/23/2007 at 11:27, Reply 4 |
Drum Loops are great, better than a drum machine
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Bill15
First Lieutenant Posts: 15 Registered: 6/29/2007 Status: Offline |
posted on 8/23/2007 at 12:02, Reply 5 |
Hey I downloaded and I'm within the trial period right now and it's great!
Just what I was looking for. I was wondering though, how do you guys
record guitar? I just ran a guitar to computer cable straight from the
emulated line out on my Marshal mg50dfx into the mic input and it sounds
pretty darn good for such a cheap setup.
[Edited on 8/23/2007 by Bill15]
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bobdaigle
First Lieutenant Posts: 20 Registered: 8/22/2007 Status: Offline |
posted on 8/23/2007 at 12:19, Reply 6 |
Sometimes less is more. Send us some tunes when you get em done
[Edited on 25/8/2007 by moderator]
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Spidercents
Moderator Posts: 1011 Registered: 7/29/2004 Status: Offline |
posted on 8/23/2007 at 14:13, Reply 7 |
quote:
Hey I downloaded and I'm
within the trial period right now and it's great! Just what I was looking
for. I was wondering though, how do you guys record guitar? I just ran a
guitar to computer cable straight from the emulated line out on my Marshal
mg50dfx into the mic input and it sounds pretty darn good for such a cheap
setup.
[Edited on 8/23/2007 by Bill15]
I was wondering if you were refering to betamonkey or mixcraft3...just
wondering...wasnt sure which you were referring to because I have not tried
betamonkey as of yet.
As for a recording interface you could use an m audio fast track...or
firewire,Guitarport and the list goes on.
Lots of options for recording on the puter from your instrument...you could
go directly to puters sound card however there maybe latency issues and or
quality issues doing it that way.
[Edited on 8/23/2007 by Spidercents] ____________________
Treat people the way you would want to be treated.
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cncfuture
First Lieutenant Posts: 1 Registered: 8/23/2007 Status: Offline |
posted on 8/23/2007 at 20:00, Reply 8 |
Came across this great site for DRUM LOOPS
www.atlassoundlab.com
This site offers DIRECT DOWNLOADS if you have a PayPal account.
They also have a E-bay store they sell some of the disks a bit cheaper ...
(you can get to it from their main site.) They also have some FREEBIES!!
I got lucky when I ordered ... ASL offered me the entire collection to beta
test .... blows BetaMonkey away ... and A LOT CHEAPER check 'em out.
OH YEAH!
AND ... they offer "Custom" Drum TRACKS ... you send them your mix and they
throw some drums into it ... I had them do a track of mine ... blew me
away ... the communication through out the process was awesome!
Keep on jammin guys ...
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Bill15
First Lieutenant Posts: 15 Registered: 6/29/2007 Status: Offline |
posted on 8/23/2007 at 20:04, Reply 9 |
I was referring to mixcraft. But since I'm new to recording, I have two
more questions to throw at you:
1) I wanted to run my guitar through the line in jack on my pc but when I
did, sound only came out of the left speaker. You know anything about
this?
and
2) When recording a rhythm guitar track, to get that stereo sound (almost
as if there are two guitars), is one trick to copy the track and then
stagger it so that it's very slightly behind the original and then set one
to the left speaker and one to the right speaker? I thought they might have
done that in the Mixcraft 3 demo song that they give you when you first
intall it. I like the sound that they had going on that rhythm track there.
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