recording...

recording.. and all that it intails, setting up mics, setting eq, tuning instruments, preping the program, tuning agian... is not that hard once you get the jist of how to work THE Board, or the program which ever you happen to have. We (my church) have a Roland Vs-2480 digital recorder... which you can hook to a computer monitor, and a mouse and keyboard and run much
like the one of it's better known brothers... "pro-tools". I am no expert at this machine... nor am I disalusioned to the fact that I probably won't be for quite some time... but hands on learning is where it's at my friends...

I tried to read the manual... yeah right!! it's like a choose your own adventure story... when you find what you looking for say.. how to punch and paste pg 87... you turn there and then it says make sure you understand the part of the book on inputs and track management pg 27... then you get there and they ask another question to which no one knows the answer unless of course your built the thing.... So I tried the "Manly-way" the whole "Frig the instructions I could put this bike together with my eyes closed!"method... Im just praying that the hanlde bars wont be attached to the wishbone at the back of the bike... But so far so Good. The more time behind the wheel of this machine the more it starts to make sense. Kind of like playing guitar... you'll never arrive at a place where you just no how to play everything... there is always more to learn... also like learning to play the guitar in general... when you first start out you hold your pick with a balled up fist.... making awkward strums (like pual bunion trying to slow dance) and you have absolutely no Idea what to do the all that fret space.... so you try to make up chords... but they have that squeeky, flat and you know it... but I cant stop cuz it's to much fun... tryouts for american Idol awful kind of tone. that's kind of how the recording is going right now... but with time It will get better.