I have finally pulled the trigger and got some mics...
I made my first pull with my own pair of mics last night at Gov't Mule @ the Cain's Ballroom here in Tulsa.
I have been reading for some time and have slowly worked my way to a (undoubtedly small) understanding of the overall process of taping....
I have now ventured into post production.
I currently run this rig: Mod Nak 300 > PS2> R09
I also have these programs at my disposal, if that helps: CD Wave Editor, FLAC Frontend, Foobar2000, Winamp, MKW Audio Compression, Audacity, Exact Audio Copy, and Sound Forge 7.0.
I find myself wanting to explore common ways of "tweaking"/maybe improving/mainly experimenting with what I am currently capturing.
I, due to my lack of a preamp I assume, seem to have a little bit of a weak signal. I have tried to "boost" this using Audacity and Sound Forge (as of today). So that is a concern I have.
I also have head of some different processes like "normalizing" and so forth, and would like someone to tell me what that, and other similar processes, effect my quality.
That is a common concern I have. I think to myself "well I dont want to even try to normalize this because I don't want to screw up my stuff somehow" Maybe this concern could be summed up by a few things you DO NOT want to do in terms of post and editing and whatnot...
I know I just threw it all out there....if you think you could help with any part of my situation, any help would be much appreciated!
I thought one way to address all the things I need to know/explore/check out would be to see if anyone here has a set system for what they do with their music once it gets home.......
Thanks in advance.