Author: Oboe Craig
Date: 2010-12-29 20:58
Robin,
You, my friend, are in for all sorts of fun! Learning by doing is my favorite method these days, and usually propped up by liberal wicki reads and google research.
What you are doing trying to achieve a live stereo mix should be doable for intermediate quality results.
Your recording device has multiple inputs in addition to the built-in mics, I think.
Does it also have line inputs, either mini jack or rca inputs?
If so, you could record your Music Minus parts directly, then play back to them using a headphone while recording oboe parts.
And if you have the 4-track model, I think it allows overdubs, so you could record piano, reassign the mic inputs to 2 other channels and record oboe along-side the piano so its not overwritten by oboe. The output levels can function as a mini mixer for overall balance.
If you are a Mac guy, even garage band could be helpful and you could drag in HQ MP3 conversion of the CD parts, then record oboe over that.
PC probably has something similar, but I'm all Mac these days so not up on Windows 7.
And at any rate, w/o going to all the entry-levl pro gear acquisition I described before, there are good quality small multi-track HD recorders by various manufacturers. Tascam is not bad these days. Alesis has some great things, too.
$1000 and up gets you into something useful for small projects, and by small I mean 8 tracks or less. And the nice thing is most of those come with a CD production capability and some automated mix down and effects on-board already. They will have phantom power ( 48 Volts running out the balanced inputs to power the condensor mics) and still the old-fashioned dynamic mics work fine.
Sorry for throwing out so many technical terms, but wiki and google are real blessings for quick reads, at least enough to demystify the terms and concepts.
I'd be tempted to go study electronics myself if I were not so busy having fun with the music. Only now and then does a technical problem really require digging deep into new territory.
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