How do you guys usually demo gear? I'm thinking of going to guitar center and buying a bunch of preamps etc. and then returning the stuff I don't want. But they don't really have everything I'm looking for. Are there any online rental places or anything with high quality gear?

Hi guys, let me introduce myself: I'm Josh 21 year old drummer from Texas. After numerous disasters with lost data from an old 8-track recorder, I've been reading and browsing around on your forum for about a month or so trying to learn what I can about digital when I have time.. and I think I'm just about ready tackle my first demo for my band.

First some background...My band has been together for about a year now. We've recorded a pretty good demo here at my home studio. There's enough material for a full "album" release. There's a friend of the band (we've all known him for years through various sources, and have all recorded with him in the past) who runs what I would call a "project studio".

Mom and Dad bring Daughter to Studio. Daughter belts out a few songs over a karaoke CD.

Now she has a "DEMO"

I can print on the disk.
I figured I'd do a two-sided card for the jewel case cover.

What's the right way to label a demo?

Hi all,

Hello, I am new to this forum and am hoping I can get some help. I sing with a gospel trio. We have a full live audio set up with a 13 channel board, powered mains, wireless mics, preamps , and monitors. We sing mostly with accompaniment tracks. I am wondering if there is an easy way to run a cable from our board through a computer to record, and edit a couple demo's?

Hey all - I've been reading a lot of threads on this site and gathered a lot of pertinent information. My desire is for a simple home studio to record MIDI and some audio into a laptop for sequencing and mixing. My budget is $2500 - I have no immediate need for mic's as I just want to lay down the music at this point.

Hi, i dj and I am trying to record a demo/mixtape to my laptop. I have an HP tablet and the stupid thing has no line in jack, only a mic input. As I understand the mic input has a preamp built in. There is no way i can buy another sound card cuz this is built in to the computer. So if I want to record from my mixer to my laptop, what am I going to do?

hi everyone.
this is the situation:

I have a good friend who is interested in starting a career doing voice-overs and possibly audio books. Can anyone recommend a few good books on the topic of getting started in this field, as well as any real-life experience about this? Thanks! ANDY