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Some of the tools you'll need is a program to edit your tracks, Audacity seems to be the most popular it's a free download at http://audacity.sourceforge.net/    I would probably go ahead and download this program then go through Russell's tutorials because he explains everything you'll need in detail and all the tutorials are for the audacity program. You can get the tutorials at http://www.mediafire.com/myfiles.php?r=ippam

Cheers!!!! No more snakes.....wooooo hooooo

I'm going to feel like a real dummy if St. Patrick was not the guy who ran all the snakes out of Ireland .  I'm sure some of the fine folks that live in Ireland will correct me if I'm wrong

Hi 06,

Since you guys are just getting started, I would probably just use mp3. It is true that the quality is not as good as .wav but it will probably be easier using mp3 and most emails should handle these files. This will keep you from having to obtain another account on another website. I think g mail will allow up to 10MB files but I'm not sure. Like Doug and Russell mentioned, you might want to keep in mind the website "mediafire" in case you get serious about recording and want to trade a higher quality sound because this site will allow something like a 100MB file upload without paying for a membership. And believe me, if the "recording bug" bites you like it did me and a lot of the other members on chordie, you will definitely want the highest quality you can get,,,,for free of course...:lol:

Hi Selso,

The "bassier vocals" could be something as simple as having your mouth to close to the mic.. You might try a trial run and move away from the mic a bit and see if that makes a difference. I'm just assuming that your using a dynamic mic. We use to record with dynamic microphones and it was always a challenge to find a position to get the best sound with these type mics.

As far as mixing, be careful when adding effects i.e. eq, compression, chorus, noise filters, etc... to you music. It's real easy to get carried away while mixing and you end up overdoing it by adding to many effects.  I guess what I'm trying to say is to try and get the best sound possible before the song gets into the recorder. This will require less effects to your song. For instance noise filters, these are great for removing unwanted sounds (hiss, background noise, etc...). These work by removing a certain frequency but it does not make a distinction between "wanted" from "unwanted noise", it just removes a range of frequency. So as it removes the unwanted noise it also removes the "wanted" noise. I hope this makes sense . Just be aware of this when adding effects and you should be able to produce some good sounds.

Hi selso,

All you need to do is upload your mp3. file to your mediafire account. Then when your friends want to hear your song, they will go to your mediafire address, download it, and listen. Perhaps you could be a little more specific than "its not working." To me it's not really that hard, in fact I thought it was extremely easy to upload/download files. Mediafire has some of the fastest upload and download speeds that I've used online. It takes me just a few seconds to download a 5 or 6 MB song, but of course my connection maybe faster than yours. Anyway a little more information about your problem would be helpful in trying to fix it. There are several people on here(chordie) that uses mediafire so we should be able to get you uploading and downloading in no time.

It just occurred to me that you may be looking for an imbeded music player on mediafire. They(mediafire) do not have a player,,,whoever wants to hear your song must go to your mediafire address and download it and then use their own software ( i.e. microsoft mediaplayer, winamp, adobe mediaplayer, etc...) to listen to the song.

Hope this helps

yeah something like that Russell, these mics have to have power. Some interfaces, recorders, mixing boards have "phantom power" some don't. If whatever piece of equipment does not have phantom power, and you want to use a condenser mic you will need to find one of these boxes to power your mic. The one that came with my mic is just a box that plugs inline between the mic and the recorder, mixing board, PA, etc...And as far as I know the only purpose is to provide power to the mic. Perhaps someone with more experience would be able to explain better, I've only been using a cond. mic for about 6 mth so it's kinda new to me also.

Hi Steve and welcome to the forum. I remember well the very issue your faced with. I'll give you some advice ,,DON'T STOP USING A PIC,,,, sorry didn't mean to yell...:lol: If your just messing around and want to play something to be playing it, It's ok to not use a pic however you should continue to use a pic as often as possible. It will be no time until those smooth silky sounds will be rolling out of your ax. Hope this helps and good luck. If you've any questions just ask on this forum, Folks here on Chordie are always willing to help.

Russell,

Something like this may give an incentive to chordians to join in on recording forum. I know there has been lengthy discussion in the songwriters section lately about words with no music, perhaps this would be the perfect opp. for those folks to put the work to song.

Anyway I think this is a great idea and you can count on me for whatever you need me to do.

Thanks for the info but I'm still confused. 

She has a song book with the music and in the back of the book it has chord structures(hand positions) for the clarinet. Lets say she is suppose to play a "G" note according to the clef. When she plays the "G" it actually comes out as a "G#". According to the back of the book she is playing a "G" but it's not a "G"......(Golly G I've typed G more times than I ever have..:lol:)....Jerome.oneil are you saying that this is suppose to be this way? This idea is totally bizarre to me....Thank goodness my bass only has four strings, you don't have to blow into it, and G means G...:lol:

Hi everyone,

Great song and the mix sounded real good Roger, good job to all.

Thanks again to Old Doll for showing and sharing "Christmas Crackers" with this dumb ole county boy who had never heard of these wonderful gifts. I still can't believe I'm the only one that's never heard of them...:).

Fatstrings

I am surprised at a couple of the albums on this list (according to the 50% Shakespeare source). The biggest surprise is that AC/DC ranked only 5th . I would have thought it to be 2nd or even 1st. Everyone, or so it seemed, had this album. Also, Sgt. Pepper didn't make the top 5 in U.S. and Led Zep didn't make it in U.K.,,,,WOW. When Back in Black was released, it was about the time when the transition from records to cassettes was happening. Do you think this could have any affect on sales? This may be a question for a different thread,,,if so I apologize.

Great Post

Hi everyone, Roger, you did a fantastic job on this tune. It's amazing the things you can do over the internet,,,,thank goodness Al Gore invented the internet...:lol: (for those that don't know, this is a huge joke in the states). Anyway thanks for including me in your song and hopefully more songs will come along and we can do it again.