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In this http://www.artistshousemusic.org video interview, Carl Beatty, a veteran engineer and Professor of Production and Engineering at Berklee College of Music, discusses whether digital recordings can sound as good as analog, and what determines the quality of a good or bad digital recording. He also shares his thoughts on whether or not consumers care about sound quality.

Duration : 0:5:13

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I’ve heard Logic Pro was pretty sick with a lot of plug ins and effects. I use Reaper and it’s ok for basic general vocals and recording but there’s basically no effects or plug in options. I’m looking for programs that have ways to distort vocals and add special effects into a recording.

For Mac I use Digidesign’s Pro Tools 10. (there’s ver 11 now) I’m sticking with 10
and Ableton Live Suite 8.
For PC I use Cakewalk, Cubase, and Reason.
With about 1200 VST and DXI plugins.
I only load the plugins I’ll be working with.
Just my personal preferences.
d;o)

I want to buy a digital voice recording machine to help me with my choral singing and learning my voice part. In the old days, I would just have used a cassette recorder to record my part but now the choice is bewildering. Also there seems to be lots of downloadable software which I am not sure about. Please help or tell me where to go to get the information.

The new digital recorders are easy to use and very reasonably priced. This one will work great for choral work:

http://www.amazon.com/Zoom-H1-Portable-Digital-Recorder/dp/B003QKBVYK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1330442066&sr=8-1

It records to memory and then that file can be easily transferred to your computer. You can also connect headphones directly to the recorder for playback.

This video guide takes a look at Portable Digital Recorders. These devices allow you to record high-quality audio and easily transfer your digital files onto your computer via USB.

Duration : 0:4:58

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Alex Hutchings takes us through a detailed overview and demo of the new Boss BR-800 portable digital recorder and audio interface for guitarists.

The BR800 currently retails for £339.99. Find out more by clicking the link below.

http://www.andertons.co.uk/multi-track-recorders/pid18524/cid602/boss-br800-digital-recorder.asp?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=amcvideo&utm_campaign=IFIs7FYK5RQ

Duration : 0:9:41

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Multi Track Recorder demo byJonathan Quinney. For more information about the Boss BR-600 please visit: http://www.roland.co.uk/products/productdetails.aspx?p=753

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http://www.roland.com/products/en/BR-800/
BOSS continues its top-selling tradition of portable, affordable multi-trackers with the new BR-800 — a battery-powered studio to go. The sleek new design is made possible by touch-sensor switches and SD-card recording media. Up to four tracks can be recorded simultaneously with eight tracks of simultaneous playback plus an additional stereo track dedicated to the built-in rhythm generator.

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I’m thinking of making some jazz recordings by digitally sequencing the horns and recording a live rhythm section and soloists over the sequence. Is this feasible? Anyone have experience with combined digital/live recording like this? Any helpful tips or things to watch out for? I’d be interested in hiring someone to help me with this.

I’ve done it a lot. What I’ve found is that you can’t quite get authentic-sounding horn parts with samples and sequences, especially with jazz. Sometimes I’ve augmented live horns with samples and that works. Sometimes I’ve found that I’ve ended up tailoring my horn parts to the particulars of the samples I’m using (stabs, crescendos, etc.) rather than score the horns the way I want and find samples that will correctly play the parts I’ve written, and that’s not a good thing. Then your track sounds like a demo song for the samples you’re using. Samples and sequences are a good way to sketch out the parts, but you pretty much have to end up using live horns (especially with jazz) or it just doesn’t sound right.

Unless, of course, you’re going for some sort of hybrid that doesn’t try to emulate live players. Then the sky’s the limit.

I usually start by recording all the samples and sequences and then start overdubbing with the rhythm section first. Sometimes I end up using all live instruments in the final mix, and sometimes I end up mixing and matching sequenced tracks and live tracks. Don’t get too locked into the sound and feel of the sequenced tracks (drums and bass) at the beginning if you’re going to be substituting live players, because the live players will just sound different and you have to give yourself a chance to get used to it.

Hope this helps.

I need a video recording device for for a small, black and white, video-only, composite output camera. It is important that the device be self-contained, as in I don’t need to plug it into my computer to record. I need a device that records to its own hard drive and/or memory. Basically, it needs to be portable, and I need to be able to download the files on to my computer after they have been captured.

Sony made a line up of compact "walkman" video recorders in a number of tape formats, including Hi8, miniDV, Digital8 and DVcam. Battery operated and firewire connection to computer for downloading. I am surprised that you didn’t select a surveilence camera with the memory card built-in, that would have made your task much easier.

I’m looking for a digital camera with HD video recording capability.
I want it to have a descent optical zoom, a minimum of 12 mega pixels and good recording capabilities at night time (and photo).
What kind of camera/make should I look for? Any suggestions?

Megapixels means nothing these days.. do you print out on A2? No? Good then you don’t need more then 8 Megapixels

Right that said a good lens does matters. Good glass is so nice to have! And of course looking for image quality always important sometimes it is better to invest in a more limited model with better image quality because.. well you want the best right?

Night time recording? What is your budget? The point is that the laws of nature don’t change to make a picture or a video you need LIGHT! Raising ISO’ s will only get you so far..

I guess a DSLR could, it has a nice big sensor so low noise and coupled with the right lens [in your case a wide aperture prime] it would give relative noise free images and video at night. Do buy one with an external sound jack though because the in build microphones are usually pretty good at catching wind noise.

So most basic DSLR with HD video + Prime Lens + Tripod [really you are going to need it] and the basic set of memory cards and batteries. Oh and of course an external Microphone.. mmm $1100?

You know a HD video camera is cheaper.. but won’t make as nice still shots