Recording on the Cheap

There is a steep learning curve to setting up a recording studio. The first attempt showed us what hardware problems we had. We were using a MAC PowerMac G5, Alesis I/O 26 Firewire input device and Audacity GNU recording software. The Alesis is very sensitive to the type of Firewire hardware it is connected to. The PowerMac's intergral firewire hardware was incompatible with the Alesis which resulted in spikes across all channels. That made the product unusable except in short sound clips.

We have since built a Windows 7 based system with an Adaptec Firewire input card. This eliminated the spike during recording, but now we have two other problems--a hardware and software incompatibility. First, Alesis has not ported their drivers to Windows 7, so the drivers will "fall out" (not function) after a few minutes of recording. We will need to create a Windows XP SP3 partition on our harddrive to load the Alesis drivers and interface. Second, Audacity will not record more than two channels on a Windows based system; therefore, we will be using CuBase 5 installed on the XP partition. Our next show is in June. I hope to have all the bugs worked out so I can post a mixed down recording of it.

I toured with Potbelly and Potty Mouth Society

                    The band I work with the most is Potbelly.

They have the most impressive discography of any band in the Punk genre. That list is slightly out of date, too.




The other band I will be working with soon is Potty Mouth Society

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What a great way to plunge in to the realm of eCommerce. For some of us, writing and designing our first blog. I have patterned this to meet my needs for my current business dream. I've listened to and been around the Punk scene for nearly as long as there has been Punk. I first heard the Sex Pistols in 1976. For a 13 year old Montana boy, that was definitely something. I am now 47 and have not lost the amazement at the freedom encompassed within the sounds and structures of the genre. Don't get me wrong; my musical interests are vast and varied. In my Favorites section are the categories of the different forms of music I love.