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\"1-Man-Rock-Band\"Just for fun I decided to record myself as an entire rock band as a demonstration to show what was possible with a modest PC recording studio. The song was a cover of You’re All I Have<\/em>, by Snow Patrol<\/a>.\u00a0 If you want to review my first two posts about this project, you can find them at the following links:
\nPart 1: Rock Song In The box-The PC Recording Studio<\/a>
\nPart 2: 1-Man Rock Band – Song In The Box, pt 2<\/a><\/p>\n

Listen to the finished product!<\/h3>\n

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Summary<\/h3>\n

With just a pretty average computer (Intel Core Duo\/3 GHz\/3 GB RAM), some VERY inexpensive software (Reaper – see details about cost and capability in my post here:\u00a0 PC Recording Software<\/a>), an audio interface box, the Line 6 POD Studio GX USB Computer Recording Interface<\/a>\"\", costing $99, a USB microphone, the Samson Q1U Handheld USB Microphone<\/a>\"\" for $69, and drum software called Jamstix<\/a> for about $100. \u00a0 I did already have an electric guitar and a bass guitar.\u00a0 For the cost information I’m only going to talk about the recording gear requirements, since there are so many variables in what musical equipment folks might already have.
\nSo just looking at the interface and microphone the cost is about $170.\u00a0 If you use Reaper, you can do this project with their 30-day free trial that never expires and is not crippled in any way.\u00a0 If you like it, you can buy it for $40 bucks!\u00a0 Jamstix also has a free trial, but then costs $100 to download if you want to keep it.
\nNow if you were to go into a studio and do this by yourself, it would take many hours, which would cost many hundreds (if not thousands) of dollars.\u00a0 And then you’d have to pay that again for every song you wanted to record.\u00a0 Once you have the $300 or so invested in the computer recording studio I’m describing, you’ll only pay once for the gear, so not counting time, every other song you record is free!<\/p>\n

How did I do it?<\/h3>\n

I opened Reaper, turned on the metronome to find the right tempo and inserted Jamstix onto a track.\u00a0 Jamstix will play to the tempo of the song.\u00a0 I set up the song structure of You’re All I Have<\/em> by Snow Patrol<\/a> and pushed the record button in Reaper.\u00a0 Voila…stereo drum track.\u00a0 Next I plugged my bass into the Line 6 interface box and played the bass part along with the drums.\u00a0 I did the same thing with the electric guitar, creating several tracks of those.\u00a0 Then I sang the lead and harmony vocals.
\nAfter everything was recorded, I applied effects like EQ, compression and reverb for each track as needed (these effects come free with Reaper:).\u00a0 Then I mixed it to taste and rendered it to a stereo track.\u00a0 Done.
\nNow this may only be something that was freakin’ cool to me and nobody else.\u00a0 If so, oh well.\u00a0 If you would like to learn to do stuff like this though, leave a comment here so I have a feel for how cool folks think this is.\u00a0 There are already video tutorials on the site here to teach the basics of setting up a home recording studio.\u00a0 But if there is enough interest, I can do a few videos showing the one-man rock band thing in more detail.
\nEither way, it was a blast.\u00a0 I don’t know what I would have done with myself if this technology existed when I was in college.\u00a0 I probably would have flunked out;).
\nAnyway, if you don’t know anything about recording yet, you can get our first several lessons free<\/strong>…well…for the price of entering your e-mail into the red form at the top right of this page;).
\nCheers!
\nKen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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