ok so I wanna try recording some stuff guys, help get me started. Are there any free straight up downloadable programs that any of you have tried. Like I said in another thread MagicIso is a mess on my comp and plus I guess I'd rather not have the option of feeling guilt depending on what day of the week it is(downloading something I could buy or whatever) I've looked around and Audacity seems maybe the best bet EXCEPT, no midi. How important is that? I'm guessing very. Any help would be appreciated.

i like adobe audition a lot. it isnt free, but i got it off of oink for free.

sounds like adobe audition is the only way to go. Will it have the equiptment to actually identify mics a guitars though, cuz i tried audacity and it seemed to all work fine for mixing and editing but it couldnt actually pick up the input to my bass to record it........... I'm really bad at computers/computer talk. thanks for the input cutup

It should. Though I haven't tried myself. I have a guitar to PC cable, like a microphone jack on one end and a guitar output jack on the other. my computer doesn't seem to recognise it, so I think I'll have to spend some more money and get a behringer guitar to pc input thing.

Also I may be able to help you out with Adobe Audition. If you're interested let me know.

I've never used adobe for recording music from an instrument, but if you had a cable that was quarter inch male on one and and eight inch male on the other end, you could use that to connect the headphone out from your amp to the line/mic in on your computer and you should be able to record fine like that.

That worked. And here I was thinkin I could just put my guitar into my PC and expect it to work.

Now I just need to get the volume a little higher (for my PC to detect it, all the knobs excluding bass had to be on full, so it was the hard rock distortion sound through the entire recording)

Thanks for the help though.

If you have a small mixer board lying around you can throw that in the chain between the amp and the PC to boost the signal.

That's something I should try and pick up. First I'll need to find an Australian Site (ha, eBay.com.au) and look at some prices. Nice idea though, thanks.

I thought you could go straight from bass/guitar to comp and record it, theres no way to do that? you need to stick an amp in the middle? I don't really understand how that would help the comp recognize it?

I was messing around with this for the first time today, I just plugged my guitar right into my comp, no amp needed. Worked fine, though obviously you can't get any distortion without the amp. I'm not sure if it's just the recording software I'm using (Goldwave), but if you volume was up to high it would go fucking nuts and all you'd hear is noise. then when I tried with the amp at all, no matter what volume (0, even), same deal. Total chaos. Downloading Adobe Audition now from the Pirate Bay, maybe that'll remedy the problem.