An important consideration when one is setting up a "home recording studio," as you will use them. You need to figure out how many things you want to record or plug-in at any time, or you wind up with unnecessary speed or not enough!

Let's look at a typical example of "Vinnie" the guitarist who has a desire to show his "band" as the songs will be played.

No matter how many times he tried to explain, they never quite get it right, so the only way he can seeachieve this is to keep everything "included the right" itself.

What does Vinnie need?

It aims to record companies a basic drum pattern – nothing special – he wants on two electric guitars, record an acoustic guitar, he wants to record a bass guitar and record a major and two backing vocal harmonies.

Vinnie is of course not all at once, so although he needs to record at 9 things he needs 9 channels?

No

All he's really "need" a maximum of 4 inputs, two withPre-Amps. He also needs a microphone to sing and record his acoustic guitar, we assume he has a guitar amp simulator, to the electric guitar and bass record and he has a physical drum machine or a computer in his or booth recorder standalone hard drive.

Vinnie could easily see on foot to the music shop, or go online and what they need to do the job. He offered us a computer recording package with the appropriate software and special sound cardfor audio recordings. Some companies offer these packages in a dictionary, M-Audio, Presonus, and Pro Tools are good brands to consider as a starting point but be aware that inclusion on a computer can be a frustrating experience if you are not computer Savy.

Vinnie's other alternative is a stand-alone hard disk recorder with built-in mixer section. One of the offereings from Fostex, Yamaha, Boss / Roland would take for his needs, at this point just wants to get Vinniehis ideas on the physical level as quickly as possible so that others can hear it, he will probably have a CD burner thrown into the equation, unless his machine can connect to a computer, how many of them can do now .

Now let's look at another example of Berbers, in a four-piece folk songs / rock group. You want a few songs for the CD-release record. All the instruments her band are used acoustic, bass, violin, guitar and banjo.

Three of the group also sing. NowBarabara has the good fortune to a large garage secluded room rehearsing for their group, and since they need not bother the neighbors by too much noise, they want the band as a "whole" for the best mood-record what they have?

4 X instrument microphones or DI [direct] Boxing
3 X Microphones
8 inputs with mic preamps
Ability to record to 8 channels at once.

There are some limitations with stand-alone –Recorder, some of them just leave a record on 2 channels at once, to be aware of another thing that the "quality" of the recordings.

A few years ago during the wars algorythm of "compression", clever inventors discovered that our ears fill in "missing information" in the same way that you can search the encrypted letters of a word, but still able to decipher what it is. The inventors considered removing bits of what our ears heard, until they came up with a formula [algorythm] thatmislead our ears most of the time. These are compressed as "formats as they squeeze" sound as a clever way that we do not notice it.

Almost all business and home recording computer software will record "linear" [non-compressed] files on your computer hard drive. Pro Tools, Logic Audio, Cubase, Sonar and do all this. Later, when you "down-mix" your songs, you can turn them into MP3 files for podcasts, or download to your portable digital music player. Adobe Audition and SteinbergWavelab are two programs I can think of that record directly in MP3 files, but they are not "full function" multi-track programs.

If we are in a compressed format mp2, mp3 etc, "unnecessary" information is removed to make the smaller file sizes [and thus] faster downloads – so these are "compressed" files. The advantage for the home recordist is that less disk space is required.

A consideration when one is a stand-alone recorder to ask yourself-I want compressedor uncompressed audio. Do you have the intention to make these recordings into something for the release then the uncompressed format is the best you can find some quality by using a compressed format to lose, but your ideas will be quickly identified for you later to work. Also bear in mind that can cause a range of hard disk recorder later transfer of data to a computer software system for more complex processing, so if you have a non-compressed recording format you the quality you can keep yourRecording.

Now if Barabara put the music store to express their needs, they told the seller that "she wants a high quality recording of their group, but I do not know much about computers", the seller proposes a stand-alone unit with eight inputs, which records the data in a non-compressed format. Since they do not have a huge budget, it shall elect, in most of the microphones for the recording session for rent. The man in the shop, it proposes using condenser microphones for theTools and dynamic Shure SM 58 is for the song.

A crucial feature of quality assessment at this point is the "pre-amp. What does this mean and why it is so important, you ask?

After you have done the microphone of the incredible job of sorting out sound waves and converting them into electrical signals, they come via the microphone cable to the "Pre-Amp 'a short way to say preamplifier. For years I fought really get' what was for a pre-amp that was before I understoodthis:

When the microphone is a signal it is very very very very small. I now call this set "mouse". Once it through a pre-amp will be "away elephants level," something that our mixing consoles and digital recorders can easily.

Listen to this:

Depending on the quality of the compoments this amplification process can make or break the quality of recorded sound. A bad pre-amplifier noise, and adds noise to your recording

Most stand-alone recordercomputer sound card interfaces, and propose "reasonable" mic preamps.''sparkle to your shots, I would be an "external" [separate component] pre-amp, although he of course said that the pre-amps in high-end Yamaha consoles get a very good reputation. Focusrite / Joe Meek / Avalon / Tc Electronics are great brands. Currently I'm using a Focusrite Twin Trak-pro, a device targeted for home recording enthusiasts.

In summary, our friend Vinnie probably quite happywith an off the shelf hard disk recorder with 4 inputs or so compressed that "records" files, because he just trying to his band members a "rough" idea of what he hears, to show things.

Barbara who is not having fun on the computer looking for a polished final product and wants her group in the best quality for a CD release will include the band, so it needs the inclusion of "linear" [non-compressed] data and provides for a unit with the best quality pre-amplifier, they can buy.

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