JohnSorcer

On 2/27/2024 at 5:32 AM, Starship Krupa said:

I go with Intel myself, mostly because it's what I know.

You can put together a killer system for that amount of money. My system (see specs in sig) can do the tasks you mention without getting anywhere near breaking a sweat, and it's years and processor generations older than what you're going to get today.

Heck, I could put together a good system for half of your budget!

Do you have an audio interface? If not, that's really the critical component and the first one to decide on.

Hi, no, I don't have an interface yet, was planning to start with something like Motu, Focusrite 2i2 or Audient, entry level stuff since I am a beginner. I would like low latency and direct monitoring, but I can't decide yet because I can't try them since I don't have a pc.

Hi guys,

I am building new pc for music making and video editing. I am a beginner in all this and my budget is around 1400euros. 

I would like to record electric guitar and make basic rock songs and also short videos for Youtube, nothing fancy. Can you please recomend me should I go with Amd or Intel, or it doesn't really matter considering my budget? This is my main concern at the start. 

Thanks!

On 4/1/2021 at 10:38 PM, Base 57 said:

A mono track panned center will play from both speakers equally.

Ok, these kind of 'simple to understand' answers is what I was hoping for, great!  I am tryin to get the basics, so that when I start recording, I lose as little time as possible thinking about technicalities, and spend more time developing riffs and solos and actual song. Although I'm aware that recording is a long term learning process.

Thanks all

On 3/27/2021 at 11:52 AM, Giorgio Gabriel said:

Hi,

if you play your guitar using some fx to get the right sound, I suggest to record it in mono; then the effect that you will use will probably give you a stereo sound, based on the mono track that you recorded (electric guitars are connected with 1 single cable, so mono will be fine).

Regarding drums it depends: if you want to record "real drums" you need some mics and every mic needs to be connected, in the end, into the audio interface that must be a multichannel model (usually, at least 8 channels).

Given that if you plan to use an instrument for drums you will record a midi track that will feed the plugin, so no problems in this scenario. You need then to set the instruments and its multiple outputs into multiple channels in Cakewalk (BD - CHH - SD etc.).

Regards,

 

Giorgio

 

Thanks to all.

Ok, so guitar is mono, right.

For drums, I will not use real drums, but a plugin in Cakewalk. And then I will make separate tracks for drum elements (snare, ride,...) and then I will use step editor to lay my drum beat for entire song. I find step editor much easier than piano roll.

So as I understand, these tracks will also be 'mono', not stereo, but when I press play, I will hear the drums on both speakers, right? This is what I am trying to understand.

Hi guys, I'm a new user and starting to record rock songs in Cakewalk.

Before that I would like to determine some stuff that I'm still not familiar with so I have a question about stereo and mono recording - which one to choose when recording guitars and which one for drums? How is it usually done?

I will make drums with every drum part on a separate channel (snare channel, hi-hats channel,..) so I can pan them easily later - so before I start - should these drum channels  bi in stereo or mono?

And also, when recording guitar (solo guitar channel, rhythm channel,..) should I do it in stereo or mono?   I will record guitar through audio interface (no miking).

Thanks, I appreciate your help