Hi, I'm new here, I'm not sure on all your technical langauge and adn home recording my band (I'm the guitarist), i've studied music tech at b-tech but as usual, i really have no clue about what I'm doing (I only got a pass).

Let me explain about the "studio". were a punk band so were not needing any amazing recording feat or anything, just the basics. I know about some stuff but i need pointers and stuff.

At the moment were using a pc with 120gb of space, 224 mb of ram. its an old pc, but were using Cubase sx, a Yamaha mg16 or somthing mixing desk which goes into the line in on the pc (the only way we can get stereo for the drums!) we have a set of 7 Drum mics which are excelent - http://www.red5audio.com, i would recommend them to anybody.

Guitar and Bass wise, I use a Marshall mghdfx head which i plug straight into the mixing desk and we use the headphone port from the bass amp.

Vocals go straight into the desk too, Now, we have spent quite a bit on all of this and were wondering how we can get the best out of it. any pointers? especially the guitar sounds a bit dull, also the vocals need to cut through a little more. I'm not sure how to do much of this (i was trained in a professiomnal studio using pro tools!) so this home recording lark is a bit different for me. thanks.

oooh, and how do you get a good acoustic guitar sound, i was thinking of using the condenser o/h mics, would this be good?

sorry about the lenth but I'm not asking for a yes no answer. lol