learn how to record sound onto my computer, process and podcast

dont worry all good

I’m a band manager
but
we’re lyk a garage band
so I’m trying to learn to record their songs onto the computer
so they can become more than a garage band
but
lyk i said
its so hard
I need to know what equipment is needed
and etc…

For a change from all the read/write stuff, I’ve finally got around to upgrading some of my audio capabilities. The griffiniMic purchased last year came out of its packaging and was connected to the USB hub trailing from my Mac mini. A computer microphone and speakers were plugged into the iMic, and everything started working straight away.

I couldn’t find a simple sound recording program on my computer so I started up garageband and tried that. After a bit of searching about for the editing and effects options, I was ready to go with my first live recording omto the mac. It’s a short burst of my version of Joe Cocker’s version of ‘with a little help from my friends’. Learning how to use iTunes to convert the aiff to mp3 took as long again, but good enough is good enough, so publish and move on.

http://firstclass.ultraversity.net/~Andy.Roberts/blog/friends.mp3

I don’t seem to have a compatible mic and socket on the Mac Mini and I don’t want to be restricted to when I have access to an iBook or eMac so I’m going to start up the old PC which I used to record songs on, using an external mic, record to wav and compress to mp3.