Beginning Setup? Options

[meadows.83]

I currently own a pc and have recorded simple guitars on it before. I am planning on switching
to mac's and buying a 12" powerbook. I just want to be able to record guitars, vocals, drums,
keyboard and possibly a drum machine. I was also planning on buying an m-box, which comes
with pro tools le. My first question is, will this setup work for me? My second question is can
I use a line 6 pod with this? Thanx.

[Synthetic]

yep this setup should work fine for you and yep it will work with a Pod. You'll only have 2 inputs that will let you record stereo sound or 2 mono channels simultaneously. For the Pod... just plug guitar into Pod and the runs cables from Pod to Mbox... no biggie.

oh... if you want to record live drums... you will need to get a mixer with enough preamps for all your drum mics (betting you will use more than 2) and then run stereo outs from mixer into Mbox for recording but this will limit your control of final mixing of drums later as it will only be 2 tracks instead of the usual 4-6 tracks. Just depends one how you approach your recording sesssion

[Presto]

I use an Mbox and ibook600 for 2 I/O audio recording. (see my post in "Making Music" also in the Getting Started Forum)

If you are going to use a drum machine, the rythmn will be absolutely perfect so, unless you want a big hassle, your natural (more interesting) drumming would have to be recorded after, while listening to the drum-machine recording in half a headphone. You can record real drums using a stereo mic set-up. You get the live sound and it depends on the place record in. You're "artificial" drums can be used to improve the sound spectrum.

That way you only have to buy 2 good mics. Have a look at the DPA 4060 series of miniature omnis. Some are particularly good at taking sudden very loud sounds.

[Presto]

I use an Mbox and ibook600 for 2 I/O audio recording. (see my post in "Making Music" also in the Getting Started Forum). If you're working on your own, its great. If you have a group that likes stereo recordings live and doesn't mind rerecording when its shitty, its great too.

If you are going to use a drum machine, the rythmn will be absolutely perfect so, unless you want a big hassle, your natural (more interesting) drumming would have to be recorded after, while listening to the drum-machine recording in half a headphone. You can record real drums using a stereo mic set-up. You get the live sound and it depends on the place record in. You're "artificial" drums can be used to improve the sound spectrum.

That way you only have to buy 2 good mics. Have a look at the DPA 4060 series of miniature omnis. For stereo recordings, get two identical ones (that's what the experts say, but I can manage with 2 very different mics). Some are particularly good at taking sudden very loud sounds and you can fit them on your head too. www.dpamicrophones.com