Home Recording Studio
Yesterday, after several tedious, wary visits to the only Guitar Center in town (with "town" being NYC, "only" does seem a bit unreal), I plunked down a good sum of money and a minor piece of my spirit in exchange for
a condenser mic
an interface
recording software
various cables
a boom mic stand
crazy fancy headphones
which, all together, in conjunction with my trusty Yamaha keyboard and silly Dell laptop, constitute "Rachel's home recording studio." Last night I got so far as installing the software without causing my system to crash, and with sticking cables into the right holes - nevermind actually getting to test the sound. Yeah, yeah, I'm not using proper terminology... let it be common knowledge that I have, truly, about one slim children's "I-Can-Read" volume above Zero Knowledge of the science of sound recording...
unlike friends of mine, who are (I say this admirably) walking encyclopedias on the subject. And, sadly, live too far away from me for me to recruit to help with my new pet project.
Let the fumbling around with quarterinch cables begin! I'm a real indy now.
posted by RZ @ 1:18 PM
2 Comments:
A condenser mic!?! AN interface!!??!! Your public demands names and model numbers immediately. For tech guys to drool properly, there have to be capital letters and numbers involved. For instance, I just got some crazy headphones of my own...Koss PortaPros, first developed in the 1980s--we'll finish this later.
That being said, I'm really excited for you. Congratulations on your home recording studio. You rock.
Karl, thanks! I just wish you could pop on over on Saturday and help me figure it all out! I'll post the Proper Nouns in my next post... but now I'm going to see if I can get my keyboard to record, and watch The Office. Yeah, we'll continue this discussion, I hope...
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