Topic: Equipment question

[lmlypfan]

A friend of mine wants to record some multi layered guitar tracks on his PC.  He wants to do this with a direct feed from his guitar straight into the CPU.  What kind of CPU equipment and software would he need to produce a great sounding recording at a reasonable price?  Here is what I am thinking.  We looked at Creative Labs Platinum sound card ($198 @best buy).  I also suggested a 120gig hard drive.  I suggested using sound forge for the mixing. 

Any input (equipment, software, and where to get them) would be greatly appreciated.     

[tibbsa]

A friend of mine wants to record some multi layered guitar tracks on his PC.  He wants to do this with a direct feed from his guitar straight into the CPU.  What kind of CPU equipment and software would he need to produce a great sounding recording at a reasonable price?  Here is what I am thinking.  We looked at Creative Labs Platinum sound card ($198 @best buy).  I also suggested a 120gig hard drive.  I suggested using sound forge for the mixing. 

Any input (equipment, software, and where to get them) would be greatly appreciated.     

Audacity (http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) might be a better program for mixing, just because he can record each track separately and easily align (and re-align) them in that program...

[cleantone]

It will be hard to do this:

produce a great sounding recording at a reasonable price?

when your doing this:

He wants to do this with a direct feed from his guitar straight into the CPU

To answer the question, you will need an interface that takes a hi-Z input. Whats your budget?