bass guitar preamp
How to record guitars, basses, keyboards and vocals correctly and without background hiss?
Can someone help me get that annoying “hiss” sound off the recordings while at the recording stage?
At the moment, I don´t have fancy equipment and pro audio stuff, but I am assuming that it is possible to get decent takes of my instrument recordings.
I have an Alesis Multimix 8 USB Mixer/Interface.
This isn´t like the greatest stuff out there right now to record, but this is the best deal I could get for the budget that I have.
I don´t know if the preamps on this mixer/interface are not that good enough, and I don´t know either if it would be good for me to get like an external preamp and hook it up in my signal chain after my instrument and before the multimix 8 input.
I just want to take as much “hiss” sound as possible before trying to tweak it out with plugins on my DAW.
Thanks for the help!
For the plugged instruments you can record without letting the sound go through the air: just plug the instrument to the amp, the amp to the mixer and the mixer to a recorder (even an iPod will do – so far I recorded two albums for a professional music label with this method).
The voice is the one instrument that causes more troubles, along with drums: here you’d really better have a recording studio, or a very very good microphone plugged to the system I talked about above. Once you have completed the recordings, bring the tracks into your computer and clean them as much as you can with some softwares such as Cool Edit Pro. That’s a good way to have house-made professional records 
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