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Thread #92063 Message #1866635
Posted By: oggie
23-Oct-06 - 02:26 PM
Thread Name: Sound recording to Computer?
Subject: RE: Sound recording to Computer?
You can never have too many formats of storage for anything important. Even hard drives fail (as a family we've got through 5).
I store wav files on DVDs, mp3s created from them on CD, and use an external hard-drive for everything.
As far as sound cards go, not all sound cards are created equal and if youare doing more complicated recording then latency can be an issue. Sound on Sound have some articles on this which should be on their website (sorry haven't got the link to hand).
Samson now do a USB Condenser mike for around £75 which seems to work quite well. My son and I have recorded melodeon and whistle with it and the results are fine. Syncing with keyboards and sof-synths was harder but possible using Steinberg.