Getting sound

The first obstacle you will have to overcome is how you will physically record your instruments.  We were lucky to have access to an electronic drum set that had audio output capabilities.  This saved us from having to mic a drum set and getting an appropriate acoustic environment for recording.  The rest of the instruments were easier, since they are all electronic guitars and bass guitars.  Several people have simply used the mic input on their computers to record analog with good success.  A couple of us were lucky enough to have USB recording capabilities in our normal setups.  The analog inputs are subject to noise from the cables, just like in a live setup.  While the USB interfaces tend to be higher quality, they tend to be subject to some recording lag, depending on the equipment and software combination that you use.  I personally overcame this lag by monitoring my sound directly from the amp, rather than monitoring the sound through the recording software.  This means that I did not have problems hearing myself play, but the audio did not sync up on the recording software when I played it back.  Luckily this is easy to fix in most recording software – I just moved the whole track back an appropriate amount to make it sync.  You can even do this visually, if you have software that shows the wave forms of each track, as you can then see the peaks where the beats are and line them up.

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