I need advice. I am interested in acquiring an 8 track recorder and do not know where to start. Here is what is important to me:

Hi All -- I am a new member to RO. This is a great site -- very helpful.

I'm an 18 year old singersongwriter and I'd like to know at least the basics of recording so that I can start getting my material together.

I have no idea if this is a hobby or what I want to do with my life, I just know it interests me more then what I'm doing at community college.

Hi,

Greetings,

Note: I have done some searching on this site and found a lot of good information, so I've edited this post to get to more specific questions. I want to be able to do rather minimalist analog recording for singer/songwriter types, jazz combos, and maybe even classical quartets and such. Here is what I have:

I've done a search for this topic in this forum and many others, but I have yet to find anything that pertained to my particular situation. Up until this point, I've been self taught via books/manuals and forums. I hope this question isn't too ignorant.

hi,

I want to home-record some rock tracks.

The sound should get a touch of british indie stuff.

My software: Ableton Live 4 and Tracktion
Plugs: Vintage Warmer and T-racks
Hardware: iMac G3, 350 Mhz
Headphones: AKG K 141

Now I want to buy monitors: Syrincs M3-220 on ebay.

A friend has got Bias Peak, so I can master with Peak.

Ok, I need a bit of help here.

Now I am fairly new here, but since i found this forum, i've been reading quite a few of the past posts, and having done that, i realise that this topic has been beaten to the ground as it is, but if anyone has the time to hear it, here's my story...