Recording Tips

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Recording voice, music, or sound effects can be fun and easy. However, if you want to get the best transfer of a tape or LP to your computer, or record your garage band, you'll find that recording can be more difficult than it first appears, unless you arm yourself with a little basic knowledge. The pages listed here are currently a work in progress, providing many useful tips.

Related article(s):

See our general Tutorials page - this includes some common tasks related to recording, such as cleaning up residual noise, splitting recordings into separate tracks and burning CDs

[edit] Recording Hardware and Software Tips

Hardware influence on recording quality - Appropriate hardware for the quality you want to record at, including sound devices, connecting cables, microphones...etc
Updating Sound Device Drivers - Appropriate and up-to-date drivers for your hardware, especially your sound device
Properly managed computer resources - What you need to record waveforms without dropouts or skips
Connecting your Equipment - Making connections from microphones, mixers, Hi-Fi, radios, and other sources