First attempt at recording with Ardour on Linux (Heaven On Their Minds)

I finally bought myself a studio mic - albeit a very cheap one. This is my first play. It's not the whole song and it was one quick take so the singing is a bit pitchy and the timing is off in places - I really just needed some audio to figure out how to drive my recording software.

For those interested I am using JACK, Ardour, JAmin, and Audacity under Linux. Now I know the singing has issues (as I mentioned above), but I am quite interested in feedback as to the recording itself (especially from those that have done a lot of this). I have a background in live sound, but I've never really dabbled much in recording. Overall it sounds a bit thin and hollow to me, but I'm not really sure why yet.

I'll do some experimentation over the next week and then post some more polished videos.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• ardour
• linux
• recording
• jesus christ superstar
• heaven on their minds
• judas
• karaoke
• cover
• patrick brennan

[schnupfy12]

nice

[iwbtswy]

@schnupfy12 Cheers, it was quite an interesting evening. I was getting fairly well annoyed with ALSA, Jack, and my soundcard. I hadn't figured out monitoring when I did the recording so I still couldn't hear myself properly. Got it figured now though. Open Source man - it can be a learning curve sometimes (and I'm paid a lot of money to work with it). :-)

[PeCherries]

what's your hardware setup? also, how are you recording your guitar? I'm trying it out myself, and I'm not sure how to go about the electric guitar recording.