I'm on a mission to record myself as cheaply and effectively as possible.  Part of the problem is that I'm using Linux which is still in its infancy as far as multimedia is concerned, especially when compared to, say, a Mac ;)

My goal is to take my little laptop (HP Compaq NX7000) and turn it into a recording studio, of sorts.  I'm not exactly aiming at professional results but acceptable results so I'll be taking a few shortcuts along the way.

One such shortcut is this little goodie.  It's called a LightSnake STUSBG10 and it's basically an external laptop that goes directly from your amp or guitar into your PC, via USB.  It allows for decent quality recording at a very good price (R300-R400).

Compared to the M-Audio Jamlab, this baby comes with a lot less extra but also comes in at around half the price.  Now I haven't bought, much less tested this cable so I can't vouch for it yet but, at that price, it's worth the gamble ;)

The idea, with this little project, is to keep it all very affordable and produce results that may be suitable for a demo.  My REAL focus is just to be able to stick my ideas down somewhere but I know that there are a lot of folk out there that would like to know how to get this sort of thing done affordably so here goes!

If you'd like to be kept up to date with my progress, keep watching this topic I created on recording guitar using Linux.<!-- technorati tags begin -->

Tags: recording, guitar, guitar forum

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