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Basic Home Recording
Jim Goodman
Part 1 - Beginning with the end in mind
Not knowing the world of recording one can easily become
overwhelmed by all of the information available on home recording. Not knowing
the terminology or technologies available and their related pros and cons can
even make a relatively informed person’s head swim. Then throw on top of it
comments from well-intentioned folks who every one of them seems to think their
setup is the best and tell you so. The complexities really can be made simple if
you take all of the bells, whistles and fluff out of the discussion, which is
my goal here.
It is always important to begin with the end in mind. It
sets reasonable expectations, it will keep you from becoming frustrated with
the whole process by helping you make the right decisions on education,
equipment purchases and when you need to get help.To begin we will ask the fundamental questions: What do you
want to record and why?
And do you have the experience and equipment to do it?If the goal is to do a CD you want to sell commercially then
you will need to have the professional experience and the gear to do that, and
face it if you had that kind of experience you wouldn’t be reading this for
anything but to admit you have too much time on your hands. And if you are
starting from scratch it will be cheaper and less painful to book a project
studio in your town. That is until you acquire all that you will need in
education, experience and equipment, which is outside the scope of this series.
Yet others only want to have a sketchpad for ideas, where
they can experiment with how a song sounds back or with different instruments
and this anyone really can do with just a basic understanding of recording and
simple knowledge of technologies and really very little gear.Realistically most folks really want to have a good
representation of their music for demo or for sale at concerts, at church or to
be a pre-production prior to entering a studio, which you can do with moderate
experience and some gear.
For this series we are beginning with this end in mind,
making a good representation of our music (aka demo) beginning with no
experience and no gear. So now we pursue getting there.In the next installment will cover the recording platforms,
stand-alone and pc daws. Don’t know those terms? You will.
Basic
Home Recording ©2003 by Jim Goodman. All rights reserved.
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