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Saturday, March 27, 2010
Home Recording (continued)
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Every piece of home recording gear is trying to imitate the features of a professional recording studio on a smaller scale. While technological advancements might allow more features, the goal is still the same: achieve at home the quality that the professionals get in a studio.
In my previous post, I mentioned about two types of DAW, integrated type and computer based type. An integrated type mostly refers to a standalone, all-in-one studio, such as the Fostex, Roland, Tascam, and Yamaha. These studios contain multitrack capability, internal effects, faders for mixing, EQ, and, in many cases, built-in CD burners. Everything we need to get start a music recording.
Roland VS
Recording technology is headed toward the computer at this point. Standalone units will always be around, but as the years go on, they are starting to resemble computers more and more. You can even make a computer as a standalone recorder.
If computer can act as a standalone unit, then why bother buying equipment that relatively more expensive than a computer? An all-in-one studio comes with some guarantees. If the box states that it can record eight tracks at the same time and play back sixty-four, then it’s going to do that without a glitch. With a computer, the number of tracks we can create is limited by the power of the machine. Good hardwares on computer (advanced processor, larger memory, faster disk, advanced soundcard) makes the different.
One more advantage of home recording is it doesn’t require huge amounts of space, and usually a corner of a room or a desk area is enough to get anyone started. How about the musical instrument? Many “solo” engineers/players own just a few microphones, usually one all-purpose and one specialized microphone. A lot depends on what instruments we plan to record.
I use only an electric guitar and a headset with microphone plugged into my computer. But, that doesn’t mean we have to own or master a musical instrument to do home recording. If we give our time to learn more about making music with audio processing software, we can make music without musical instrument, even without a mic. In My Music Box tab on the right, you can listen one example about it. I made it completely with FL Studio
software.
software. Many studios involve MIDI to control drum machines and keyboards. But, I prefer computer software that uses wav format because I think the sounds are more reallistic, altough it requires more harddisk space.
I think that’s all for now. To be continued…
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