I did the same thing with the electric guitar, creating several tracks of those.
Next I plugged my bass into the Line 6 interface box and played the bass part along with the drums. I set up the song structure of You're All I Have by Snow Patrol and pushed the record button in Reaper. Jamstix will play to the tempo of the song. I opened Reaper, turned on the metronome to find the right tempo and inserted Jamstix onto a track. Once you have the $300 or so invested in the computer recording studio I'm describing, you'll only pay once for the gear, so not counting time, every other song you record is free! How did I do it? And then you'd have to pay that again for every song you wanted to record. Now if you were to go into a studio and do this by yourself, it would take many hours, which would cost many hundreds (if not thousands) of dollars. If you like it, you can buy it for $40 bucks! Jamstix also has a free trial, but then costs $100 to download if you want to keep it.
One man band equipment trial#
If you use Reaper, you can do this project with their 30-day free trial that never expires and is not crippled in any way. So just looking at the interface and microphone the cost is about $170. For the cost information I'm only going to talk about the recording gear requirements, since there are so many variables in what musical equipment folks might already have. I did already have an electric guitar and a bass guitar.
One man band equipment software#
With just a pretty average computer (Intel Core Duo/3 GHz/3 GB RAM), some VERY inexpensive software (Reaper - see details about cost and capability in my post here: PC Recording Software), an audio interface box, the Line 6 POD Studio GX USB Computer Recording Interface, costing $99, a USB microphone, the Samson Q2U Handheld USB Microphone for $59, and drum software called Jamstix for about $100. Part 2: 1-Man Rock Band - Song In The Box, pt 2 Listen to the finished product! Summary Part 1: Rock Song In The box-The PC Recording Studio If you want to review my first two posts about this project, you can find them at the following links: The song was a cover of You're All I Have, by Snow Patrol. Just for fun I decided to record myself as an entire rock band as a demonstration to show what was possible with a modest PC recording studio.
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