Recommendations for Audio suite…

[Phil Loarie]

Thank you John for the recommendations.

I am assuming that your PreSonus is connected to your Vegas Pro suite.
If so, I am taking a closer look at this.

By the way, my recording tests went very well last night. I feel like such a dummy for not asking folks sooner if Vegas Pro could handle direct live recording. Gees, this is cool.

I just need to get more familiar with the recording ins and outs such as the bus configurations so I can record simul sync without sound on sound, as in monitor the other tracks without blending them into the new track.

Can you recommend any online tutorials about the basics for Vegas Pro 10 recording?

Thanks again,
-Phil

[Phil Loarie]

Hello Scott, Stephen, Danny and Ted.
Thank you all so very much for your comments and suggestions. I really appreciate the kind attention here.

Before I got my Tascam US-800 which did work for about a month with Steinberg Cubase 5 LE, I was using a Tascam 2488 stand alone 24 track to record my takes, and then I would do a live mix to Audacity via the stereo line input on my computer. The stereo line input was very touchy about its recording volume, the spectra always looked very compressed.

BTW: on my initial post, it may appear that I am dis’ing Steinberg Cubase and/or Tascam. I really should make it clear that for one thing I have used Tascam products over the years and always found them reliable and trustworthy tools. I still have my 26 year old Tascam PortoStudio 4 track, the one that uses cassette tape at twice the normal speed. Also, it may be my own clueless dummyness that has prevented me from properly configuring both the Steinberg s/w and the Tascam Driver.

I generally only record one stereo track at a time: either one of my electric guitars, or the Yamaha Synth, or my old Alesis SR-16 Drum Machine. Talk about old, but still delivers. :>

I don’t presently have a need to record more than 4 inputs at a time, as I may record my band, “Thunder Banjo Johnson” one of these days, so input bandwidth is not an issue yet. However, it’s best to plan for peak loads unlike the way our freeways were engineered as witnessed at rush hour.

You all have been so kind and so attentive, I really impressed with this forum.

Thanks again,
-Phil

[John Rofrano]

I don’t of any tutorials for audio recording in Vegas off-hand. Once you have a proper audio interface that is using ASIO drivers and recording only from the assigned inputs you will have no problem with monitoring the other tracks without blending them into the new track. Any track that’s not armed for record (and not muted) will playback. There are also options on the armed tracks for input monitoring. I like to monitor from the audio device outputs but you can monitor through Vegas as well.

~jr

http://www.johnrofrano.com
http://www.vasst.com

[Stephen Mann]

“I did a lot of research reading reviews on several different interfaces. M-Audio got terrible reviews simply because of their drivers.”

Support for M-Audio, including driver updates, kind of lost any attention since Avid bought the company.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com

[Phil Loarie]

Thank you again John.
This is very useful.
-Phil