The Jam Corner

This is a supplemental topic for the Digital Recording series.
There are various possibilities for creating a home studio setup. The basic possibilities and their relative price ranges vary depending on the complexity of your recording needs. For example, you may want to record your whole band simultaneously, and you have six people + drums, that takes a much different studio setup than for a solo artist recording on a four-channel audio interface. My primary focus is on the actual recording equipment, but some basics you'll need besides it may include some of these:

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The purpose of this article is to go over, in broad terms, the considerations that go into recording, mixing, and mastering using modern digital recording tools.This article writes about DigiTech's GNX3000/GNX4 onboard recorder, stand-alone digital recorders, and software recorders such as Sonar (and other Spawn of Cakewalk). While I am not a professional studio engineer by any stretch of imagination, hopefully my basic level of knowledge will be helpful to beginners in getting out there and producing decent-sounding CDs.

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This is a continuation of the Digital Recording series. This first part examines the process of recording prior to mixing in further detail. Check out this article for some insight into the kind of equipment you might be using to record your songs.

When we hear music, what our brain is processing can be loosely referred to as sonic information. The information aspect of it is created by the musician and interpreted by the listener; however, the bare-bone sonic data travels in the form of acoustic energy, or sound waves. Sonic information is encoded using this sonic data. One of the more unique properties of music as an art form is the relationship of tonal elements to time at which they occur respective to each other. This is precisely what creates movement and excitement through music. However, when we are recording a piece of music, the time must be represented on a recording medium, where we're able to circumvent the restrictions imposed by passage of time to piece together multiple sonic elements (pieces of sonic information) as one. This is underlying concept for fast forwarding, rewinding, and selecting tracks on a CD player.

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