Pc Recording(ideas??)

[P_1]

ok! here's what i want to do.

run a shure sm58 mic through a ART TUBE MP STUDIO Microphone Preamp or the VT3 then straight to my sony laptop soundcard. tell me what you guys think?? I've been reading a lot about the art tube and the only problem that most people have been saying about it is that its pretty noisy. but i think there's ways around that. IDEAS????

by the way, ill be recording mostly vocals and maybe some guitars (acoustic/electric/bass). and doing most of it on Cool Edit.

[vitaminman]

Hey,

GET RID OF THE LAPTOP SOUNDCARD!!!!!!!! That's where you're going to get most of your noise!!!!

If you don't believe me, try this little test:

1. Unplug everything from the laptop soundcard.
2. In the Windows mixer set the Line-In as your record source.
3. In Cool Edit, hit record.

Unless you have some magical laptop, you should see the level meters flickering around -50dB, which is absolutely terrible. With nothing plugged in, my Delta 1010 has a noise floor of -90dB...

There are laptop soundcards you could look into getting...Echo makes some nice adaptors for their Layla card, it's a lot of money, but you could in theory do 8 track multitrack recording. There are also a bunch of USB and a few Firewire cards out there, they look very nice.

Take care,

Nick