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[ Follow Ups ] [ Post Followup ] [ Active Message Board ] [ Archive Home Page ] Posted by Tedster on January 25, 2000 at 08:35:28:
In Reply to: Beginner PC Recording question to kick things off posted by Mark on January 24, 2000 at 11:22:53:
Consider: If you have kids that will want to use it for games, homework, chatting with their buddies in Timbuktu, etc...you may want to rethink the PC recording bit. The first thing any recording demands is SECLUSION. You don't want to have your takes ruined by ringing phones, yappy kids and spouses, dogs barking, etc. Seclusion can be a tough nut to crack.
For that reason I've upgraded a buddy of mine's old Pentium to handle the huge wave files necessary for PC recording and put it in a secluded place. I've got my Darla card with Cool Edit Pro, which works for my applications.
For soundfiles, get a fast computer with lots of hard disk space, lots of RAM, and don't clutter it with a lot of other stuff. A typical .wav file can be 20 meg or more. Let's say you're doing 16 tracks, now how much disk space have you used? For the raw tracks to one song, that is?
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