Music Recording Software

[mph]

When I'm fully moved back to school, my friends from Ohio State are going to move in with me and my other roommates and record their album in my house. Having said that, I'm looking for some good software to use to record and master the songs. I have very little experience with mastering and recording software, but I'm rather confident I'll be able to learn to use it within a few days.

Anyone have any experience in recording music? Recommendations on software?

Thanks in advance.

[Nathan]

Mac or Windows?

Mac has some great Pro apps for media editing (Not iLife).

You could probably do what you need with Garage Band (iLife), but if you want a more profesional app, use Soundtrack Pro. Unfortunately its $299 new.

You are probably working with windows, but if you aren't those are definetly options you should explore.

[mph]

Sorry I didn't specify Windows. I'd use Garageband if I had a mac. I've heard nothing but good things about it.

I just got Sony Sound Forge 8.0 and Sony Acid Pro 5.0, but have yet to try them out.

Anyone have suggestions?

[mph]

We have a recorder that we're going to use, but afterwards, I plan to transfer it to the computer and master it.

I would be interested in hearing the quaility of what you recorded.

And from looking at the site, it looked like something you would do ;)

[Tralala]

This is the kind of thread I always end up discovering new music from.... it's the best thing about the "long tail" and music.... before u had to read in a magazine or hunt around in a record store to find something cool -- which made the choices always subject to the "gatekeeping" of editors and music store buyers and etc... -- which would lead inevitably to mediocrity and the prevalence of "poser music" -- i.e. stuff that you want to like because you think it's cool, not because you really like it. Music journalism especially creates high-profiles for really lame stuff, because journalists are always looking behind their backs, trying to profile something that they think in 2 years people will think they were cool for liking "way back when".... I GREATLY prefer the democratic nature of threads like these, where people simply list their tastes and you can just look something up on itunes or youtube and check it out for yourself....

These days I'm really into techno and techno/rock and stuff like that -- try searching for these songs:

Thomas Falke "Revolution On The Dance Floor"
Groove Cutter "My Shooter"
Control One "Just A Little Bit"
Ian Carey "Redlight"
Kevin Weg "Dead Radio"

I don't usually go for techno but these are sort of like a weird crossover between rock and techno/trance.

Here are also some downloads with some other cool stuff too -- http://www.electricfilebox.com/tracks

[Farbin Kaiber]

I don't like iTunes, Gunther.

[jex]

Well...I have been able to achieve good quality recordings in Sonar, but its not mac.

You can check out my recordings on www.myspace.com/murderinthemirrortn

Not sure if you can use it on a mac or not, but a great mastering plugin is Izotope Ozone.

[bmw_e30]

It's funny how we have a music engineer on this board and he hasn't responded to this thread yet.

Maraino, where you at?

[jflip2002]

Its all about the Pro Tools & Mbox.

[george graves]

Its all about the Pro Tools & Mbox.