Thanks for your great feedback and assistance everyone, much appreciated. Kind regards, J. -----Original Message----- From: blindav-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:blindav-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Diego Demaya Sent: Tuesday, 17 February 2015 4:21 PM To: blindav@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [blindav] Re: Audio record setup for PC - Hi Jay, You may want to consider getting one of those Tascam USB connected multi-input interfaces you can read about easily on Amazon.com/access I have never used one myself, but you will learn a great deal by reading the user reviews in terms of recording instruments into a PC and processed by one of the several software packages as mentioned by others earlier. Tascam also makes several devices that allow you to plug in an instrument either directly or via microphone and playing sound along with it via either digital audio files or CD. I believe these are practice devices founded on the principle of Karaoke. They may permit you to record off the device the mixed instrument laid onto the audio track. If you want to go beyond these simple solutions, you will no doubt face a steep learning curve and several hundred dollars in at least 2 or 3 different devices to accomplish multi-channel mixing and recording onto a PC. Many musicians simply purchase a decent stand alone CD recorder, such as the Tascam CDRW-900SL and hook up a mixing board to it and live record their sound downmixed into stereo after tweaking the mixer for optimal levels and so forth. This method has the virtue of avoiding having to use a PC and learning software operation. Regards, Diego -----Original Message----- From: blindav-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:blindav-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of J Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2015 7:25 PM To: blindav@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [blindav] Audio record setup for PC - Hi all, I want to record from a microphone to my PC with decent - high quality sound. I understand I may need a new sound card or something with audio input (auxiliary or something like that?). It may be easier to explain, I want to record saxaphone (and other instruments) with my PC, pull them into Audacity and mix/lay them over tracks from other artists I am collaborating with. I'm really new to this, so any suggestions - including other software for this stuff are welcomed. Kind regards, J. *** You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the Blind Audio/Video email list. To post an email to the list send an email to: blindav@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Please don't forget to visit everyone's favorite podcast www.avrant.com *** *** You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the Blind Audio/Video email list. To post an email to the list send an email to: blindav@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Please don't forget to visit everyone's favorite podcast www.avrant.com *** *** You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the Blind Audio/Video email list. To post an email to the list send an email to: blindav@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Please don't forget to visit everyone's favorite podcast www.avrant.com ***