A bit of an update. Compression works, I'm still at a stage of over doing it but learning. Reapers working well, I just found out tonight you can use an external program within Reapers options to edit each track, audition is made for that. recording at 44100 x 16 is fine as well, no need to go higher I've found. ty for that.
We lost our keyboard player this week and he took his drummer back so we are left a 3 peice, it's worked out better, we did a bass, 2 rhythm, 2 backup vocals, and a synth track using the gr-20, hell we sound better now and of course tighter, hopefully there's not to many musos in the audience

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We can also now have a perfect start/end to the tunes, easy is good and what a huge sound for 3 average players. So..if anyone wants a backing track without an instrument to jam over ..well we can try

Lastly again with compression, you can pull it tight to make a studio recording almost fit to play on the wireless (old man talk lol ) or pull it up for the PA live sound..very

I thought. I am recording a band in a few weeks, I'll throw something up here when or if it's good enough to laugh at.