How I record
For live recording, (for instruments/voices) I have several different types of instruments used for recording. Microphone : Standard dynamic microphone used for karaoke, very useful for recording high notes and voices but quality is significantly a lot lower than other microphones just because it was made to be purchase in bundles for singing. The microphone is placed onto a stand facing downwards towards me. Mixer: I'm using the MG10XU from Yamaha, a great mixer overall but unfortunately the usb output on the device lowers the overall sound coming to my computer which forces me to record at higher volumes, the downside of doing this is that when playing instruments, if the sound is too loud the mixer will peak causing the recording to have a very weird spike sound. Computer Specs: AMD 8350 FX processor 8 Gigs of DDR3 RAM