BandHub: The Internet recording studio.

Riccardo, that’s great.

BandHub is also a DAW application, with the added tweak of supporting video.
It also provides all the online storage, which is backed up automatically.

You should give it a shot! It’s completely free, and it will always remain free (we may introduce a ‘pro’ version in the future).

Thanks!
Pablo

For Pablo, what kind of audio interface would be compatible with Bandhub?

Alex: any audio interface woks with Bandhub – you can even record using your computer’s mic – or just plug in any audio interface you have and use it.

Mark: do you have a Mac or PC? When you say no sound comes – do you mean the monitor? Or are you actually recording and not hearing anything? Does the audio interface show up in the list of audio devices in the Bandhub recording app?

Hi Pablo,
we are musicians (singer and drummer) and are super excited about Bandhub!
What a brilliant idea!!

But how disappointed to see the recording app never opens once we click on Record…
We are using a Mac Air, once we click on Record, the pop up window comes up, showing ” installing update – this might take a few minutes” and we never go past this point.
it’s very frustrating!
What do you think is wrong? Thks for your help!

I’m working with Mac 10.8.5. with external sound card connected with firewire to my Mac. If I open the window where I want to record music on band hub, the sound I hear is distorted. A hard terrible sound which doesn’t bring me any motivation to gig. If I listen to a song from the info page window it all sounds great. How can this happen and how can I resolve the problem. Greetings from The Netherlands Allard

Bandhub Review.

It’s fun, easy and good to try out things against other musicians in private, work out what I did sucks, and discretely delete it. Some bandhubbers seem ok copying their audio files out of their memory cache into their DAW of choice, otherwise in within Bandhub sound quality is not near recording quality. It’s acceptable to jam with though.

Downers for me…. Loading times at times, or a lot of the time. The sound quality is not near recording quality, but it’s online data consideration.
The other thing is important but please hear me out..

You say in interview above.. “any audio interface woks with Bandhub – you can even record using your computer’s mic – or just plug in any audio interface you have and use it.”

Now people do this, that actually can sing or play.

Picture this.

They are sitting in front of their laptop, listening to the song coming back at them through the system speakers or from their mp3 player, and then recording their vocal. If you listen you can hear the song playing in the background, with a whole lot of hiss.They don’t get essential of a metronome or backing song track.
The worst thing is that this person can actually sing, strum, etc.
They do maybe half a dozen dismally recorded tracks, singing or strumming in time and in key, but impossible to collab and get even reasonable results. So they feel ignored, then quit. Good musos quitting, dilating the quality. Bad musos whatever, but good ones, man that’s what will make BH successful longer term. I note the prompt for backing tracks is more obvious now, which helps even beginners consider starting with a backing track, tick.
How about some simple page and picture on sign up, showing ideal setup if all newby has is a laptop and bud earphones, so at least the backing track spill will be minimised.

I’ll trade you this opinion based on fact for the upgraded bhub recording app functions so I can mess with my tracks. I think this is where Bhubbers raiding the cache comes in and going away from bandhub for all the time it takes to process the audio in their other DAW, for what might be days or weeks depending on number of songs. I am surprised there is not advertising on Bandhub. I think many would accept a small amount for improved functionality and faster servers perhaps. Maybe some ad popup when you first sign in, but honest and clean no trojan adware rubbish.

I cannot download the recording app!!! I’ve had an account for a while and used to have the app a while ago. Due to issues and hardware failures, my pc was wiped and the OS reinstalled (windows 7 64bit) i had no problem with it until now, when i go to reinstall it and I keep getting an error code. Did you guys update it, remove it? Are there new system/ browser requirements that im not aware of?

It keeps saying it doesnt find the webcam when i obv have one

Guitar Rig 5 , Amplitube, ect doesnt work. Can we assume no effects will work? ( VST’s )

App does not work for me, just says loading but never loads. I am on mac with sierra 10.12.2.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

@Pablo Osinaga: I came across this thread after trying to find out a bit more about Bandhub. I signed up and had a browse, but my initial concerned impressions are only being validated further by this comment thread.

My first alarm was when I checked my profile – it had somehow filled in my location despite me not having been asked for that information. I don’t know if you deduced it from my IP address (in which case more fool you, because many people use VPNs or Proxies which would give an incorrect -location anyway, so well done on the sloppy work!) or you snooped in some other manner I can’t think of. I’m sure someone who understands these things can fill us in, but however you did it, it is WRONG and disturbing.

Secondly – this comment thread, which as another user has pointed out appears to be the unofficial customer support thread, appears to be the only way to contact anyone at Bandhub. And you expect people to hand over money for PRO tier accounts? Pfth I don’t think so, Mister!

Thirdly, there is absolutely NO company information on the Bandhub website- no “About Us”, no “FAQs”, no “Privacy Policy” or any mention of what you may or may not do with user content in the future. Most importantly as I mentioned above, no method of contacting someone in the company.

I had hoped to recommend this platform to some friends so we could collab together from across the world, but from the issues I’ve raised and the amount of comments I’ve seen around various sites about the site seemingly spamming for sign ups – I’ll definitely be giving it a miss and recommending others who bring up the site do the same. You need to seriously improve your privacy policy (if you even have one), transparency and contact availability.

Bandhub must have the worst recording app in living history, the completed collabs sound like they have been recorded using an old tape machine. I would stay clear of it and by no means pay for a subscription as their service and response is very poor. There are some really good musicians on there but the recording app lets it down and the owners do not want to do anything about it.
If your looking to collab with other musicians then Jamgle is 10 times better and totally free.

As a pro member still running I have contacted you and never got a reply and I am paying for that service but I will not be subscribing again when my current subscription runs out. I am also a experienced guitarist and the quality of recordings has nothing to do with my set up or the way I record it is 100% down to the inferior recording app of Bandhub. When I record using my DAW without the use of plug ins or when I record on Jamgle the finished product is 10 times better than Bandhub so your point is not relevant. Another thing that is unbelievably poor about Bandhub is that you cannot use any plug ins. If you are a MAC user then you can use Garageband but if you are a Windows user Bandhub says “Hard Luck”. They also have a phone app but if you are a Android user you cannot use it which is totally crazy. Finally Bandhub has more glitches than anything else I know which is very frustrating for their members. Take it from me folks if you want to collab with other musicians were you will get good recordings choose JAMGLE and not BANDHUB.

First I would like to say thank you for this program!!!!
I have a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 Studio, And I suffer from latency! How can I correct this??? Buffer speed has already been tried.

I also have just given up on Bandhub for similar reasons. I encountered terrible lag using a laptop. I was able to remedy that by using my PC which has a much faster processor etc. However I could not get an acceptable quality recording. I am returning the Scarlett 2i2 that I bought next week. I was very disappointed. The concept has great potential. The equipment couldn’t handle the higher frequencies of a flute and the effect of the delay pedal I was using was at some point cancelled out. I tried every solution, spoke to audio experts etc and finally gave up in frustration.

Just wanted to put up a comment as a balance to that which has been posted previously. I’m a moderately technical person and have pretty reasonable, budget home recording gear, I find Bandhub hits the mark between simple and useful. I’ve been using Bandhub for a few years and love it, it’s a massively supportive environment and it’s made me a better musician. Occasionally I’ve encountered technical glitches or slowness but these have been isolated incidents. Regarding what can be done on BH, it matches your effort, if you want to thrash on the guitar and just see what comes of it you can or spend a year on a masterpiece. Myself and BH friends (and I really would call them friends) have managed to produce amazing sounding original songs using the site, after some processing outside BH I’ve put out four of these on Itunes, Spotify et al. I’m not going to give up the day job, mostly because I don’t have to….

Hey Janet, my signal chain is – bass guitar into sansamp DI pedal so I can ‘model’ my sound, into 2nd generation Scarlett 2i2 usb into Mac Book Pro and using the Chrome ‘Canary’ browser to run BH. I monitor through headphones from the Scarlett headphone socket with ‘direct monitor’ set to on.
It’s easier for us ‘wired’ instrument players, but there are certainly lots brass/wind instrument players active on BH.

Won’t upload. Doesn’t matter if new recording or collab, after stopping the recording I get an upload progress bar that does nothing. This happens every time. Anyone have any ideas?

And FYI I’m running Windows 10 v1703.

Pablo Osinaga,
I paid for Bandhub Pro, and I can’t get ANY support. Zero. No response. WTF???
Advanced help setting up?? That’s laughable!
Anyone considering signing up for Bandhub Pro, DO NOT DO IT OR YOU ARE STUPID.
Bandhub makes promises they simply don’t keep.
They are lying thieves.
I have a scarlett solo 2nd gen, and a lightning fast Windows 10 machine, huge ram, and the latency in recording is horrible.
Just looking for some guidance, so I signed up for Bandhub Pro. And…….crickets.
Nobody works there.
No
Body.

Hello people, can anyone help me, i have a Bandhub account, i have’nt been on it for a couple of months because i was getting another Computer, i finally got a new Imac and tried to look for Bandub but i cant find the download page for Mac, i even tried different browsers, and even when i downloaded it on my Iphone it wont even open, does Bandhub still exist?