Producer Phil here from Sound Marketing Recording and Mastering Studios, Vancouver BC.
This time I’m going to press on with the Recording for Beginners Series:
- Recording for Beginners Series 2 -Setting up your computer:
Buying a good computer, Laptop or Tower:
1 ) If you need to be portable go with a Laptop, and add as much R.A.M as you can and an external Hard-drive for all your audio files. Get a nice Interface USB or Firewire.
2) If the computer will live in your studio go with a nice tower, and as with the laptop add lots of R.A.M ( go with the recommended amount that your recording software suggests ) … most are around 4 to 8 GBs of R.A.M.
Install 2 internal Hard-drives (fast as possible 7200 rpm’s are good ),same as above buy a good interface
USB/Firewire or PCI use these slots for high-end Protools TDM core cards with built in Ram. These can give you mass amounts of horse-power under the hood without tasking the computer.
3) For best results use the studio computer for recording only ! Not for gaming and internet etc. as you can run into stability problems or get viruses. You want it running at peek performance. And always. turn off any software that maybe running in the background as this will slow your computer down during a session.
Stay Tuned for Recording for Beginners 3 .. Enjoy the musical process!
Producer Phil
Sound Marketing Recording and Mastering Studios
Vancouver / Surrey BC
When you are ready to master or would like some re-mixing on your tracks, come and see me here at the studio!
You may also want to consider recording or laying down your drums or vocal tracks here.
I offer a one-on-one instructional recording engineer course here in my studio or at yours.
For only 97.00 per month, you may pick my brain with one question per weekday about recording. Ask me anything! If you are interested, please leave a comment and I will get back to you within 24 hours.
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