I've been wanting to try and record some dub and reggae in my apartment. The idea of dub fascinates me more because I really want to mess around with Audacity some. So I dug around my apartment and found a lot of the stuff I've used in the past to record. 4-Track, keyboard, noise toys, acoustic guitar, bass, mandolin (it'll be very experimental dub), and so on.
Notice something missing? I couldn't find my microphone. All that hunting and searching and I couldn't find it. Even found the cord that would make it work with my 4-track, but no microphone!!!
So I set up my laptop to see if that would work. Kinda yes and kinda no. I was actually really impressed with how well the little microphone on my laptop functions. It does a really great job of picking up any noise in front of it. The problem comes when you do overdubs. When I start layering the tracks, they start getting off my fractions of fractions of beats. That can't happen when yer doing reggae music. The beat is sooooo very essential that everything has to be DEAD ON. I tried to muddle through a couple of tracks, but in the end it was all so embarrassing I scratched it.
The good news? I'm up and moving. I have a plan of what I want to do, how I want to do and what it'll look like when it's done. I've been in need of a creative project and I think this will suit me very well. I'll just write and when next month rolls around I'll order a new cheap mic. They ain't that pricey.
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