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I recently purchased a PC. I have 640Mb of Ram, with an 80GB Harddrive. I want to be able to use my PC to record myself to CD. Now since this is all new to me, I can walk into a stor and "Ask" what should I buy. But We All Know How That Goes.....Can someone please tell me what "Starter" Pakage I should really buy, so I can get My Groove On ??.............Please.... Thank you all for your time re; this matter.
Sing On!!!!!

A mic and a recording software is all you need for a start.

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I can neither confirm nor deny ever having or knowing anything about nothing.... mrscott

Great thank you, I like to sing big band, Tony, Frank, etc.....Is there any particuilar mics, I should be shopping around for??  Thank you.

Shure SM58 for your singing and recording

For your recording program you may choose one of the following program. All are free. Learnt how to use it well .


REAPER: http://cockos.com/reaper/
KRISTAL : http://www.kreatives.org/kristal/
Audacity : http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

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I can neither confirm nor deny ever having or knowing anything about nothing.... mrscott

Thank you very much for your time. I appreciate it. Take care and once again thank you for your assistance

Audacity have a good tutorial, if you need it.
good luck and happy recording

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I can neither confirm nor deny ever having or knowing anything about nothing.... mrscott

those songs are probably best done by pocket songs.
Usually I wouldn't reckomend Pockets songs but they do a great job on their big band and broadway stuff.

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The Line Array Experiment is over. Nothing to see here. Move along.

This baby seem good if you just want to record in your pc. It has built in preamp and use the usb rather than the soundcard.

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/ ... sku=279015

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I can neither confirm nor deny ever having or knowing anything about nothing.... mrscott

Great, I'll check it out. Thanks for the help.  Take Care.

Thank you for  taking the time to point out the correct mic to me.  I'd really hate to have to go through that "learning Process" the long way around.

Wow thanks for the links Jian, I can't believe it's free. I am reviewing all. If you don't mind, can you please tell me how to hook up a mic to my PC??  If you do not have the time to explain, its okay. Im gonna have to go to Guitar Center to get the mic there so I can ask one of them. But I appreciate it. Im sorry for being such a Newbie. Once again many thanks!!!  OOOpss, now that  I think about it, you mentioned tutortial, so I better check that out, thanks.

Oh boy, don't I feel dumb.......I asked you if you can please explain how to hook up a mic to the PC and I checked out the Muscians link and there was the answer.......

Your mic will have a 1/4" jack and you will need an adopter that will have a 1/8" plug, like this:

http://www.radioshack.com/search/index. ... Id=2032058

With that you will be plug it to the 'mic in' of your sound card. The hole have a picture of the mic so you will not miss it.

And buy a pair of hand phone while you are at GC, You will need it to listen to the backing track while you sing and record your vox. You will not get a good result if you listen to the backing from the speaker when you are recording. What happen is the backing music will bleed to your mic.

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I can neither confirm nor deny ever having or knowing anything about nothing.... mrscott