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Okay so you say that you have stuff for live shows -- like what do u mean? Mics? A PA? A mixer? Amps? All of these things can totally be used for recording.

Like if you're recording basically acoustic stuff, you could snag a Samson GoMic on amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Samson-Mic-Portable-Condenser-Microphone/dp/B001R76D42/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1449596017&sr=8-1&keywords=samson+go-mic).

They're super easy to use and really high quality. I personally don't have one but a few of my friends do and use it to record their bedroom pop trash stuff. It's probably the cheapest high-qual USB mic you can find.

Also, do you have a Mac? If so, Garageband is p chill for most recording needs (Alex G uses it, for example) but I personally use Logic Pro because I produce full band and electronic stuff, too.

Here's what I'm gonna assume: You have a Mac, a smartphone, and an acoustic guitar. Those are the only things u need for recording pretty decent bedroom pop. Basically what you can do is simultaneously record with your phone and your computer and then email yourself the audio files and layer them on top of the computer recording.

STEP 1: Open garageband, start a new file. Play your guitar a little and see if the monitor bar hits the red. If it does, it means the mic is clipping and you can go to system preferences and reduce the mic's sensitivity. Once the levels are okay, you're good.

STEP 2: Record. Okay now, take your phone and out, start recording your guitar part. Once you're done, hit stop on both the comp and the phone. I would recommend recording two guitar tracks (because layers of sound are dank AF), so make a new track in garageband, hit record on your phone and on your comp, and play along with your original guitar track using headphones. If u fuck up, it's cool just do it again or leave your little mistakes in for charm.

Do the exact same thing for vocals, like recording both on the comp and the phone simultaneously. Make sure that each part your record with your phone is a new audio file just so it's easier. Once you're done, email all of the audio recordings to yourself (or like somehow get them from your phone to your computer, idk).

STEP 3: The traxx. Okay once everything is a) recorded, and b) on your computer, you're ready to start fucking with the tracks and mixing and stuff (don't worry if you've never mixed before or anything). Go to garageband, hit import audiofiles, and import each phone track as an individual track. By having both the phone recs and the computer mic recs, you're sort of compensating for limitations in both the phone and the computer. BUT NOW IS THE HARD PART!!! You've gotta align all of the phone files with the garageband files. To do this, you gotta zoom in hella far and Solo two tracks a time and like match up the beginnings of each track. It's difficult but like if you don't get it pm me or something or look it up on youtube ("aligning audio tracks in garageband" or some shit").

STEP 4: MIXING!!! Mixing is both really hard and kinda fun and not that hard, if you're using garageband. There are like countless videos you can watch on youtube on how to mix, but really all you need for bedroom pop is compression, EQ, and reverb. Compression will even out inconsistencies in volume on your tracks, EQ will get rid of gross hissy high pitched sounds and stuff from your recordings and reverb will make your shit sound super dreamy and cool. I'm sure you can figure out how to find the EQ and Compression on garageband, but basically like fuck around with it for a while until it sounds okay. I would recommend cutting some of the higher frequencies on the EQ.

Once everything sounds okay, export it and boom! Bedroom pop. Also, you should experiment for a while and get super frustrated with your computer and get mad and angry and feel like you don't know what youre doing because that's totally natural and fine.

PM with any questions! I didn't proofread this at all.