There are lots of DAIs to choose from. Sounds like you are on your way. I decided on a Behringer UMC202HD from Sweetwater. I want to repeat the course and chatgpt recommended I record my playing the lessons - listening after to determine areas for improvement.
I wanted to record the lessons simultaneously with my playing which means bassbuzz/firefox needed to talk to Reaper on the same pc. The solution was to install VB-Audio Virtual Cable and VoiceMeeter (needed for interface to Reaper). I just got all this set up last night - there were lots of tricks - today is test day! yeah!
I think there will be other situations where this will be useful.
Thought I took care to point out that it wasn’t my install The funny part is that they didn’t exceed the 60 day grace period by just a little…
Reaper is definitely worth the very modest license cost, I’m on my second paid personal license term, and I bought a commercial license for the voiceover stuff I do as well. Just fantastic software that does everything I want/need. Highly recommend!
I have used both the VoiceMeeter stuff and Mixline.
VoiceMeeter digs very deep into the system and crashed sometimes. Mixline introduced latencies, at least in my case.
I found another way to do what I want, but my use case is different from yours.
If VoiceMeeter works for you: don’t look anything else. Otherwise, try Mixline.
I wish there was a 1 click solution. I have a tech background so it helps but it’s all a twisty winding maze. I finally have my dedicated laptop setup. Found a 2TB SSD at Walmart for $129. Lucky find. Eventually I’d like to create covers but more practice is required. Billie Jean is a C+ right now.
I use Songmaster Pro, cause d@mn @TheMaartian “forced” me to get it
It’s a really great tool, BUT you cannot hear the bass guitar and the song coming from Songmaster at the same time, using ASIO.
Mind you: I use a one PA Speaker for both bass guitar and background track.
My workaround: switch the audio interface to hardware monitoring, and you can hear both. Of course, the signal is “dry” then (no effects).
Not every audio interface supports hardware monitoring. My Zoom AMS-24 does, my Presonus Quantum E42 does not, unfortuately.
@Al1885 not sure who the question was for but in case it was me. I want to repeat B2B (most of it anyway) and my advisor, ChatGPT, recommended to record my work but I would like to overdub the lesson with my bass. GOT IT WORKING!!! ! lots of driver shenanigans. in/out, over/under. Vogons and bypasses.
It’s fine. But I read the OP who just want to record the video. It involves many things
Audio interface to record the bass track on track 1 music track on track 2
Camera, phone is probably the best camera everyone own.
Then put it on the computer that requires syncing the 2 together, not that hard but there’s a learning curve there. It took me a few tries to execute that.
There are a few devices that will let you connect directly to the phone I own a few of those, decent quality and easy to use, I also own the Zoom Q8N 4K, which I now use as my main cover camera. Best audio interface on any camera period. The swappable option accessories makes this such a GOAT.
- Connect interface to your computer, set interface as input and output.
- Connect bass and headphones to interface
- Open Reaper(set asio driver if needed) and add the song audio track(mp3) in there.
- Optional: open your phone camera and start recording if you want a video of yourself playing.
- Start recording from reaper. Song audio will play in there, so no need for any external speakers. You can play with the volume for every audio track, maybe you want lower volume for you backing track. Edit if needed and save/export.
- Optional: use your phone video and exported audio and synch both.
The extra step (which I got from Pam and John’s videos linked to just above) is to run all the sound through your interface and to your amp. That lets your phone have audio to pick up and then if your video editor has an auto-align feature, you can use the “good” audio from your DAW to align to the video with the “probably crappy” audio from the phone. Then just strip out the phone audio track.
Other option is to connect your amp to the interface, even better if you use individual XLR cables for better sound. I just ignored any amp option because I’m currently have no amp lol
I havent actually used it properly yet - just installed the software to take a sneak peak - this looks like a fairly steep learning curve but I’ll give it a go using fender pro free trial.
In essence I want to record my self playing over tracks - maybe using video in the future which I’m guessing would just be off the webcam.
lots of driver shenanigans. in/out, over/under. Vogons and bypasses.