what is the cheapest way to home record music?
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If you can find a cheap microphone, probably at radioshack or some such store, that is all you need to buy.\n\nOther than that, to record onto your computer you can use the program audacity ( http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ ) It is completely free and totally user friendly.\n\nOf course, you could always use a Walkman :)
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You will need a cassette player (!), PC with a stereo input to soundcard, conversion software, CD writer. Yep that’s about it, oh yeah and a lot of time…..\nNote: if you are using a laptop, you may need a USB external soundcard (mine has only a mono mic input – not good enough!) – you can get cheap, simple but effective ones (from Hong Kong) via ebay…\nYou could get someone to do it for you, friends of mine at: www.cassette2cd.co.uk for one. There are plenty to choose from out on the web, this type of job is perfect for a 'virtual' studio.\nThe software is probably the thing you really want to know about.. you will find loads out there. Personally I use Magix Audio Cleaning Lab – primarily for lifting vinyl, but will take any analogue signal. It has loads of features including cleaning filters, effects and editing… it’s cheap too and even comes with a stereo cable – try ebay. There are loads more, some even free downloads – listen to folks who have used the software then have a go….\nOh yeah, and Magix has automatic track recognition based on silence between tracks and auto-stop recording so you can go out for the day and it will stop at the end of your tape – really useful!! You will use up loads of hard-drive space, so don’t try this if you are pushed for space…You may need to purge the huge files every so often (10MB per minute WAV files, 1MB per minute MP3). You could save some space recording directly into MP3 at the sacrifice of a little sound quality.\nOne last thing, track recognintion works great for CDs in WAV format (for playing in a standard CD player), I don't think it applies to MP3s though as each MP3 file would need to be separated into individual tracks - This is how Magix software treats it anyhow.\nHope this helps
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Use MP3Gain. It has lots of features. The interface is very intuitive.\n\nDownload it from http://mp3gain.sourceforge.net/
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you can use jet audio recorder but some setting required <you can find the way>.\ngoodluck
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you can use total recorder... http://www.totalrecorder.com/
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You have software that can record the music.\n\nAudacity is a free open source music editor that you can use to record music from websites. I use it consistently:\n\nhttp://audacity.sourceforge.net/\n\nJust start it up, hit the record button, go to the page and it should record. For more help, try the help files on the program.
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Try Behringer , or Mackie - they make a pretty good variety of models just for what you need , good price too.
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Well it all depends on how much music you are going to record. Like how many songs do you have? Usually the cost for studio time runs anywhere from $75 to $150 american dollars. Now that is cheap, it really all depends on the access you have and where you live. Now if you are somewhere remote and not close to any big citys well then double or triple that amount. Now another way to go about this is to start to make your own home studio. Now I take it you want to get the best possible recording that you can for a small amount of money. There are great web sites to find the equimpment you need.\n\nHere is a link to explain what you need and the cost.\nhttp://shop.drumbalaya.com/s.nl/sc.12/.f\n\nNow my personal favorite on line music store is musicianfriends.com they have great deals on equipment.\n\nLook I have alot of family that are in bands... and friends with home studios.. Alot of up an coming musicians are doing  it. And it gives the contorl back to the artsit..  =)
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Try Audacity! It's freeware and it does the job pretty well.
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Okay by a good condenser microphone like one of these http://shopping.yahoo.com/search;_ylc=X3oDMTFncmo3bG5vBF9HA2dsb2JhbF9ncm91cARfUwMyNzE2MTQ5BHNlYwNzZWFyY2gEc2xrA2J1dHRvbg--?p=condenser+usb+microphone&fr=FP-tab-prod-t-t400&toggle=1&cop=&ei=UTF-8\nThen a pop screen like one of these http://shopping.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=ApcB5QrNPw9B_4rxQnHGPKEbFt0A;_ylu=X3oDMTBtNTA5a3RqBF9zAzE0NDg5MTE1BHNlYwNzZWFyY2g-?p=pop+filter&did=\nThen download this free software called Audacity here http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Then get a beat for your song at http://www.soundclick.com/genres/charts.cfm?genre=Instrumentals Soundclick.com Instrumentals. There are tons of free beats for u to use there. After u got your beat make lyrics for it then burn it to a cd and put it on your cd player or put it on your mp3 player. Then open Audacity put your headphones on play your beat and record yourself singing to it. After your done you will have an acapella of your song (acapella means just vocals). Then in audacity go to Project, Import Audio then click your beat. Then you will have on track on top of your acapella and on the bottom your beat. Then get your acapella lined up the way you want to with the align tracks button that looks like this\nhttp://www.sniff.org/pulp/sizewe.gif\n but black. Then save your song and export as an mp3. After your song is done get an account at  http://www.soundclick.com\nand upload your files to your artist account. Then if u r good you will get popular. After you get more and more popular you may soon get a deal at a record company. Or if u r lookin for a deal sooner take your songs and burn them to a cd and send whatever label you want to get on a demo of 5 songs. Thats basically it. If u dont understand audacity just go here\nhttp://audacity.sourceforge.net/help/tutorials \nfor tutorials.
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Acoustica has a music format converter that is approx $20.00 that's the least expensive that i have found so far... and it is easy to use also.
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i personally use copypod, which is shareware (you can only use it for a couple weeks before you need to pay), but i've heard that winamp can also copy your music back for for free (but i don't know how!)
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If you want to record the sound as it is being played you can use a trial version of SoundTap Streaming Audio Recorder 1.25 - download from http://www.download.com/SoundTap-Streaming-Audio-Recorder/3000-2168_4-10580128.html?tag=lst-0-5\n\nYou can search for many other recorders on www.download.com - search for RECORD SOUND PLAYED ON COMPUTER \n\nJust be sure to check limitations listed to make sure it doesn't have some nasty things like only 60 seconds of recording while using trial or saved disabled or junk like that. \n\nIt is good for recording audio streams too. \n\nIf you are wanting to have the file "grabbed" and converted you can try doing a search for audio converter followed by the type of file you want to convert and type you want it converted to (ex: audio converter midi to mp3
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Audacity.\nIt's free (open source)\nhttp://audacity.sourceforge.net/
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Audacity is a good choice for this sort of thing -- it's free and works on just about any operating system. You also need a microphone if you don't have one. I'm using the Samson C01U at the moment, but any mic will do. If you are going to send your samples as MP3 files, you'll also need LameLib. Audacity's website provides instructions on how to get LameLib and how to make Audacity talk to it (it's not difficult). Good luck!
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Hi:  I use a free program called AUDACITY. You can record (into your sound card) from a microphone, or a cassette player or both to your computer. Then play back your recording with windows media player.  It's kinda tricky but after using it a few times you will get the hang of it, it works very well.  And it's FREE.
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Try Audacity. It's free and it will be easy to trim/clip songs.