The Musician's Guide to Home Recording
by Ron Gonzalez

This webpage is for those of you who want to make your own demo recordings at home, and have them sound just as good as $50 an hour project studio productions. It can be done with just a personal computer (Apple Macintosh or Windows PC), a few reasonably priced software applications, and some carefully chosen budget sound equipment. Or, you can purchase one of those combination digital mixer/hard disk recorder boxes...

Table of Contents

Background Information

Computer necessities

Studio necessities

High octane options

IDE vs. SCSI vs. USB vs. FireWire

Sound Cards and Audio Interfaces

Introduction to Microphones

Basic Concepts of Digital Audio

MIDI, Synths and Drum Tracks


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Last updated on February 26, 2003