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Karl Monetti
`Olu`olu
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 Posted - 11/11/2010 : 10:24:35 AM
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Okay, I am sure this has been covered before. If anyone can point me toward older discussions about voice and guitar recording on garageband, please do so.
For guitar i have a GuitarPlug, which is an interface in a cord; 1/4 inch jack at one end, USB at the other, that allows nice recordings on the guitar. But, how about for voice recordings. And how do you do voice and guitar at the same time?
Thanks for any help. It's about time I put some stuff down before I am gone.
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Lawrence
Ha`aha`a
USA
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Posted - 11/11/2010 : 10:47:06 AM
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It's about time I put some stuff down before I am gone.
That's a bit morbid Karl, is your health OK? 
But then again, maybe it is the attitude that most of us should have had when we were 16.
I believe you can get USB microphones that will work easily into your GarageBand (but I am not familiar with GarageBand). Also a lot of the Zoom recorders (H2, H4n, R-16) will function as USB audio interfaces that you can record your voice with. As for Guitar and Voice at once, you can hook more than one USB device to you computer or you can use a multichannel interface (in which case some of the Zoom recorders above will still work).
Read Mark Nelson's reviews on these small recorders as to their performance as audio interfaces. My personal opinion is that the Zoom R-16 is the best bang for the buck right now (and you do not need the computer to do your recordings with it - though I would reccommend post-processing with a normal computer/DAW).
Speaking of which, if you want a little more serious DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) tool (not that GarageBand isn't good enough), try out Reaper. I assume you have a Mac, and there are Mac and PC versions of Reaper.
P.S. - If you ARE going to kick-off... can I have all your hand-made instruments? ( I promise I will take good care of them).
Additionally, My wife was going to buy me a viewing of the Aurora Borealis from someplace in North Pole, AK on My Birthday (some January).
Can we drop by?? (and I will pick up the instruments). 
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Mahope Kākou...
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Edited by - Lawrence on 11/11/2010 11:39:07 AM |
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hapakid
Luna Ho`omalu
USA
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Posted - 11/12/2010 : 2:42:51 PM
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I use a small mixer to mix guitars and mics, then take the output into the computer. I have also bought a USB condenser mic, but the output levels, even though powered by the USB plug-in, are barely enough for recording.
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Allen M Cary
Lokahi
USA
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Posted - 11/15/2010 : 11:26:54 AM
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I was just in the Apple Store the other day (may not have those in the Great Whit North) and saw the there is a mixer box for Garage Band that allows various inputs. I'm afraid I didn't get the actual product name or the price.
I personally do my recording on a Boss 600 digital recorder then take the tracks over to the Mac for tweaking with Garage Band. It may be an unnecessary extra step, but I have been happy with the results. I use a condensor mike and one channel of pick up for recording into the Boss.
Aloha,
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Karl Monetti
`Olu`olu
USA
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Posted - 11/17/2010 : 11:06:15 PM
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Thanks fellas.
Lawrence, my health is fine, but we ain't getting any younger. I've been threatening to record some stuff for years. When I first travelled from home after school I sent casette tapes of me playing and singing back to my folks and the girl I was a'courtin. Most of them are lost now, and my kids are grown and gone and due to an unfortunate divorce, never got to hear me play or sing much. I'm not any good at either, but my Dad couldn't sing a word of Italian and I'd love to have a tape of him "singing" along with Verdi operas. My wife and daughter bought me 5 hours of studio recording time for Father's Day two years ago. That resulted in 8 really rough tracks; as badly as I play it would take 5 years of sutdio time to get a dozen songs "right". But, I can mess around Garageband for free, so that's why the questions. I wanna be like Jesse!!! I love your stuff, man.
I'll try the local apple store (we aren;t that far out of touch, after all, our town has 7 MacDonalds, and we can see Canada from here), and one of the music stores has a fellow well versed in GB, so I'll pick his brain, too.
Lawrence, you darn well better stop in if you ever get up here. January is usually a good time to see the aurora, but there are no guarantees (if anyone says they can guarantee sightings, they are lying to you or your wife). One of my renters takes Japanese tourists to a remote site every night of the winter to view the aurora. Last year he told me they only saw it THREE times all winter!!!. But, that was the worst i can remember in 40 years here. This year I have seen them a dozen times already, nothing spectacular, but then it is mostly on the 100 yard wak from house to wood shop, so I am not outside long enough to tell you just how often they have been "out". Let me know when yo might come and i can contact some friends in teh know. Also, the university of Ak has a web site telling about aurora activity complete with forecasts. I have not found them to be completely reliable though.
As for who gets the instruments when I die; I would hope to have most of them sold. The few I keep are the original prototypes. They have more mistakes than I make when playing them, so I could never sell them. My son has first dibs; he's dang near as big as me, twice as tough (well, not as good looking) so you'll have to fight him for them.
And, I'm not going near that Zoom stuff; that's slkho's dog, what's he know about recording???
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