One of the best purchases I’ve made in some time is the Behringer Guitar Link.
Why? I can plug my guitar and bass into that little device, run it through the USB port on my computer and record and mix tracks all day long. As I’ve mentioned a time or two, I have decided to use free software to record my stuff. I do rather suck at guitar, after all, so why spend a lot of money on amp models and the like when I can find what I need for free?
Of course, when I say free, I’m not talking about pirated or anything like that. Click one of those links up there to find out about some of the open source stuff I’ve found.
I have an obnoxious tendency to post something here whenever I do find a cool, free thing I can use for recording. An application I downloaded the other day is the HammerHead Rhythm Station.
That’s an easy to use drum machine that sounds pretty good when you install the acoustic samples (you’ll find more details at the above link). Want to hear it in action? Just click the “play” button on the DivShare thingie above to hear something I wrote that would sound even worse without the HammerHead drum machine and a set of acoustic drums samples.
All I had to do was program in my beat, stream it as a WAV file to my computer, loop it through Audacity, load it into my Kristal Audio Engine mixer and record two guitar tracks and a bass track around it.
PS: Because of spamming purposes, the linky will be closed on Thursday of each week at midnight, Malaysian Time. Thank you!
9 comments:
Monday hopping!
Those all sound like cool sites for musicians. I'm not a musician but I do use Audacity for sound analysis. It's great!
Nancy -- Glad you stopped by.
Patricia -- Audacity is great, isn't it? I use it at work to edit podcasts and I'm still a bit surprised that software that good is absolutely free.
I still prefer Krystal for recording and mixing music tracks, but Audacity lets me do things like easily make drum loops, convert WAF files to MP3s, etc.
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