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Recording new song idea's while composing?


mightysasquatch

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I'll use my phone if I have to -- but it sounds bad. I mean, like garbled. Not groovy and lo fi. ;)

 

If it's something tricky (and I've been trying to push some guitar technique things in the relatively-new-to-me DADGAD tuning so that happens frequently nowadays) I'll fire up my point-n-shoot cam and shoot video of it. (I can EQ the audio enough to be able to sort of live with it. I've even put it up on YT in a couple cases.)

 

If it's just something where I want to get the feel (and not some genius trick I'll never remember) I'll use my desk mic ("Skype mic," in the parlance of the era) with the free, open source Audacity program. It's pretty basic as DAWs go. (OK, downright primitive.) But it can do overdubs and I can leave it to default to my built in everyday audio interface (instead of my good one, which I have to get out a good mic for, etc) so I can be recording an idea in about 30 seconds or so, assuming I'm in front of the computer.

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