Audiocity; How I love thee...

[markachu]

Audiocity is greeeat! I'm slowly getting the hang of the basics of it, such as editing, cutting etc. I've even had a go at the impossible: making a Nightwish song almost bearable (if you've heard the original of this 'radio edit', you'll know how much of a favour I've done for mankind

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[thedarkproject]

When you plug the fx board in, make sure the output on it is turned to minimum, then ramp it up until the recording levels in Audacity are satisfactory. Some people have fried their sound cards because the output from some amps and so on is too much for a simple computer's line-in.

As for drum stuff, there isn't much on the market that is any good, even counting commercial stuff. If you have control over individual beats in Hammerhead, then it's probably worth persevering with that, after getting hold of some decent 'rock' samples rather than the usual hip-hop/TR-808/jazz shite they come with.

Pretty much any program will work though if it can export wave files, which you can then drag into audacity and position them accordingly.

You may want something like the VST plugin for Audacity (http://audacityteam.org/vst/) which lets you use VST effects, many of which are free and great quality. Maybe that's a little further down the road though.

[markachu]

Already did the VST update, will play with those at a later date.

[shallowthing]

I still can't work out why my PC won't accept audio input. Maybe it just wants to spare the world the horror.

[markachu]

Soundcard issues?

[thedarkproject]

There can only be one input source set at once, so a common problem is that it's set to draw input from the cd-rom drive or a microphone socket when you want it from line-in.

Or the recording level is set to zero...