Seems a common thing happening these days is musicians recording some of their tracks at home and some at a studio, then having the studio mix it. This is a great idea, but as with all of life's endeavors involving things we know little about, a potential waste of time. First thing to understand fully is that the old line "fix it in the mix" is not actually a thing. Crap goes in crap comes out. We can edit and EQ and all kinds of things to minimize problems, but they are usually futile and will never sound right. As mentioned on a few other droolyflappings, recording is a labor of details. Every missed detail is another step down the ladder of awful sound, and at the bottom awaits a nauseated cat and a bag of badgers. Ya know... I was typing away here for a while and I bored myself. I usually find me to be endlessly fascinating and charming, but there are times when I sit here wishing I could make some hasty excuse and leave myself sitting there looking dumbfounded. I'd be all like, "WTF man I thought I was interested in this stuff!" Then I'd be like "No dude I'm boring the shit out of me." Then I'd just leave. That'd learn me up some. Actually that doesn't work. After several failed attempts, I find every time I leave I'm somewhere else. Revenge is a dish best served confused. So apparently this will not be how to record at home. Suffice to say, find an engineer willing to help with it. Thing is, just recording a source is actually pretty straight up: grab mic cable, plug one end into mic, other end into mic cable hole on the box with the blinky lights, place mic in front of thing about to make noise, hit record, make noise, hit stop. Sounds easy enough, but you'll have to decipher that from the chinese translated manual: Take cabling of much microphone, wrap prong of horizontalness into amplified container featuring happy funtime lights, impress play, make many noise, impress unplay. If you haven't got your DAW and gain structure figured out, and about 1500$-3000$ worth of gear for at least one decent line into the computer, and a somewhat treated room, you probably shouldn't bother. Having an engineer that will help with mic choices and placement and what to listen for is one thing, phoning every ten minutes because a blinky light isn't blinky is another. And really, the internets has billions of terrabytes on all that. Look it up. Unless of course your plan all along was to record a cat throwing up on a bag of badgers, in which case you're good to go. So that's it.
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