Hi,

Ok so I’ve kind of had the Mac or Pc question answered and decided to go for windows because it has loads of software that is compatible.

But what make of computer do we go for? Dell, hp, alien wear or any others you can think of. .

Would be great if you could tell us what you use..I haven’t a clue where to start to get the best price and the most reliability. .

I'm trying to record my high school concert bands (winds) and I have an interface hooked up with mics and such but I can't get the laptop to receive the line-in signal instead of the built in mic signal for input. Just trying to get some mild recordings of the band. We went into system preferences and clicked on line-in for the input, but Garageband is still only using the built in mic.

HI :D

I'm still looking for a laptop for my TC Electronic konnekt 8...

It's very difficult for me.

I know about problems on toshiba laptops(with konnekt) and firewire chipset that aren't Texas Instruments...

I saw some brands like ADK, RAinrecordings, Sonica... but i live in Italy and they there are not here (and there's no support center).

Hi, I seek your help/advise as I am stuck in a classical situation. "It worked fine so far but today when I need it ..."

My setup. :

Recording path: Mics >> Mackie 1640 >> Firewire >> HP NX 7400 Laptop
Monitoring path: Mics >> Mackie 1640 >> Aux 1, 2, 3, 4 >> 4 channel headphone amp.

What happens:

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RemyRAD wrote: The only thing that goes into microphone inputs on a computer is computer microphones. Not studio microphones. Not phonograph cartridges. Just $3.98 multimedia microphones. That's all that should be plugged into those anything else is WRONG WRONG WRONG.

All of this stuff ties my head in knots. I don't know very much about recording. I've made a few tracks in the past. The problem is that its sooooo motherloving frustrating. I end up wanting to hang myself with my guitar lead.

ok so i just got a dell laptop recently and would like a temporary way of recording. mostly just acoustic solo stuff, guitar and vocals (if i could do more, great). what is the cheapest way i can get some decent recordings just using my laptop and some software? and whats the best way to go about mics this way (i have one 1/8" mic input and a sm57+mxl 990)

any advice is great

Hi. So I just bought a new laptop, nothing fancy some simple hp pavilion one. Right now I don't even have a mic plugged in and my empty recordings are choke full of noise. Hell I can even capture my own voice if i talk loud enough to the machine without a mic or any kind of sound input device on. I don't know if that's common but I thought it was very amusing.

If this has been asked before, I couldn't find it, but perhaps you could direct me to it.

Anyway,

I am trying to figure out how to can record live drums, guitar, synth (separately or together) onto my laptop directly into Ableton Live.

From brief research it seems that the best idea is a mic and an MBOX...is that correct?

Thank you for any and all help =)