i thought of sharing my journey of Recording. it's been quite a long evolution (for me) to come to produce good quality recordings as it all started with a Pentium 2 pc with a Rm15 sound card that have no brand at all and a multiFX zoom707 2 , a cable and a guitar. i learned that i can record using my pc. that time i'm using Cakewalk's pro audio software. very easy, everything
's click and record to fancy stuffs like plugins or whatever. the drums i will use drum loops that i can find from the net, of course it's very limited. 
ok, here goes.
1) you need to have a good understanding of the material you are going to record. The song, you need to know all the arrangement from hair to toe, i mean verse 1, verse 2, chorus...etc
2) your players need to know the parts of what they are going to record. No mistake can be save while mixing. if it ain't good, record again.
3)Sound - Change your guitar strings, get a very good multiFX with amp sim. if you are on a budget. If not, get a good 5K mic and a 15k amp. Everything need to sound very good to you before you record it. again, if it ain't good, don't record until you get it good.
those are the 1st tips, ok about my hardwares.
i'm running Sonar 8 from cakewalk on a pentium4 pc with 2gigs of DDR ram. Window XP and a multimix 16 USB 2.0 (audio interface/mixer) connected via usb. i also have a midi controller, by a yamaha keyboard and connect using a midi to usb cable(you can get it in ebay, very cheap). I'm using podX3 from line 6 as my amp sim, great stuff. 78 amps 48 cabs, can you imagine?
oh ya, did i mention it can have a dual tone and a stereo output, means i can run 2 rigs in 1 time. too good to be true. but sometimes for great distortion i use my digitech Black 13 running straight to the mixer for that extra bottom end.
I'm using a AKG pre 200 condenser for my vocals and acoustic guitars, and also Sm57 & Sm58's for their use. Cables, you need to have good ones, invest in good ones, cheap china ones really gives you hiss and hums.
That's all about my hardware
's click and record to fancy stuffs like plugins or whatever. the drums i will use drum loops that i can find from the net, of course it's very limited. 
ok, here goes.
1) you need to have a good understanding of the material you are going to record. The song, you need to know all the arrangement from hair to toe, i mean verse 1, verse 2, chorus...etc
2) your players need to know the parts of what they are going to record. No mistake can be save while mixing. if it ain't good, record again.
3)Sound - Change your guitar strings, get a very good multiFX with amp sim. if you are on a budget. If not, get a good 5K mic and a 15k amp. Everything need to sound very good to you before you record it. again, if it ain't good, don't record until you get it good.
those are the 1st tips, ok about my hardwares.
i'm running Sonar 8 from cakewalk on a pentium4 pc with 2gigs of DDR ram. Window XP and a multimix 16 USB 2.0 (audio interface/mixer) connected via usb. i also have a midi controller, by a yamaha keyboard and connect using a midi to usb cable(you can get it in ebay, very cheap). I'm using podX3 from line 6 as my amp sim, great stuff. 78 amps 48 cabs, can you imagine?
oh ya, did i mention it can have a dual tone and a stereo output, means i can run 2 rigs in 1 time. too good to be true. but sometimes for great distortion i use my digitech Black 13 running straight to the mixer for that extra bottom end.
I'm using a AKG pre 200 condenser for my vocals and acoustic guitars, and also Sm57 & Sm58's for their use. Cables, you need to have good ones, invest in good ones, cheap china ones really gives you hiss and hums.
That's all about my hardware
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