Hello yall,

Hey, I'm using garageband and a Behringer mixer. I'm recording direct through the rca cables through the input and output. THIS IS DRIVING ME NUTS. I'm playing through my monitors, and it sounds f**king beautiful. then I hit record, still sounds good. DONE.

Having been disabused of the notion that setting levels means just turning it up until the red light comes on and then turning it back down a little, I am at a loss as to how to translate the little green bar in GarageBand into the actual -12 to -6dB (maximum) peaks that I hear so much of on this board and elsewhere.

Hey, guys.

I've been lurking for a few weeks, stealing your best informations as I find it.

However, I've run into an issue that's got me totally stumped. I'm trying to mix a song for my band (we're trying REALLY damned hard to do our recording in-house so we don't have to pay someone else to screw up what we can screw up ourselves).

Okay so our my death metal band wants to do some recording. I have a Yamaha MG16/4 Mixing Console, a drum mic kit, Garageband, and a Mac Mini. I basically need to know anything and everything that could help me as I am just starting out. I want to be able to get a clear sound from the drums and a powerful but clear hit on the bass drum. And how should I go about recording the guitars?

I want to start up my own portable recording studio using my macbook pro and wanted to know which software I should use and what equipment to get. I plan on recording voice and instrumental tracks, mainly for songwriting.

I'm looking for a digital mixer to use with garage band or logic studio. It would have to be USB because apple decided that the new macbook users weren't good enough for firewire. Im having a hard time finding a USB mixer that would work with garage band. And It would need to be under $300. Please Help! Thank you!

I use garageband and a m-audio fast track interface

when I record straight from guitar to interface to computer i get very low output on my screen. there is just a thin line that goes down the middle of the media bar.

what can i do there is actual amplitude?

thanks

I don't have a mac, so Garageband may not be in the cards for me. I've been hearing good things about Mixcraft, so I just wanted to see how it stacks up.

Then I spose I just need a midi keyboard and someway to plug my guitar and keyboard in, correct? Like a preamp or something?

I've worked with Live before with my old band, and we got some really decent sounding home recordings from it.