First time recording.

[Superman000]

Im gonna buy a microphone for recording all my GCSE music coursework with.
I dont know much about recording and was wondering about which michrophone to get ?
I would prefer it to be usb.
Easy to use and quite cheap, seen as im almost skint.
Im gonna use it for mainly bass but also piano and maybe guitar.

I was loooking on the digital village website and they have a few good ones.
Am i looking in the right place or not ?
What should i be looking for ?

Im also confused about which program to use.
Any ideas or advice ?


Thanks your usual all very nice

[metalmaniac]

For cheapo shtuff,
behringer microphones come cheap, and as usual audacity is recommendation (free), however if you look in the recording forum you will find no end to program, and equipment advice.

[WalMan]

What's your budget & what do you need to record, single lines, multitracks, live, along to backing tracks, etc? What PC are you intending to use

The first hit googling [color="#0000FF"]free multitrack recording software[/color] gets [url="http://www.hitsquad.com/vocal/post-4258.html"]THIS[/url].

If you don't need MIDI Audacity is OK (and free) and you can record multiple tracks

If you have MIDI capability and wanted a free Drum player you could look at Toontrack [url="http://www.toontrack.com/ezplayer_free.asp"]EzPlayer[/url]

Check through the [url="http://basschat.co.uk/index.php?showforum=10"]Recording[/url] forum as well. I am pretty sure similar sort of queries have come up before and you should be able to trawl some useful info from there as well