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Hi everyone,
I'm a Mac newb (heck, I don't even have one yet) but I will be acquiring one in the not too distant future. To make matters worse, I'm a sound engineering newb as well. One of the reasons for my switch to Mac is the vaunted ease of doing your own recording. I'm a saxophonist and would like to be able, to start out, just record myself with reasonably good sound quality. I'm assuming that the mic in whichever Macbook Pro I end up with is not particularly well suited to something like that. Could you guys recommend a basic setup that would facilitate this? Another assumption I'm making is that it'll take a mic and a box to run the mic into before it gets to the MBP. Which combo of these things would work well, with the possibility of expanding it to 3 or 4 inputs at once (I'm the front man of a jazz combo and we're trying to come up with a way to record without shelling out huge amounts of cash.)
Anyway, long post. If you've made it this far, you are to be congratulated!
-B
I'm a Mac newb (heck, I don't even have one yet) but I will be acquiring one in the not too distant future. To make matters worse, I'm a sound engineering newb as well. One of the reasons for my switch to Mac is the vaunted ease of doing your own recording. I'm a saxophonist and would like to be able, to start out, just record myself with reasonably good sound quality. I'm assuming that the mic in whichever Macbook Pro I end up with is not particularly well suited to something like that. Could you guys recommend a basic setup that would facilitate this? Another assumption I'm making is that it'll take a mic and a box to run the mic into before it gets to the MBP. Which combo of these things would work well, with the possibility of expanding it to 3 or 4 inputs at once (I'm the front man of a jazz combo and we're trying to come up with a way to record without shelling out huge amounts of cash.)
Anyway, long post. If you've made it this far, you are to be congratulated!
-B