Recording Equipment

Certif1ed wrote: My points regarding the noises made my quantisation and aliasing (and the effects of anti-aliasing), whether technically sound or not (and I'm reasonably confident that they were) were that you can tell digital apart from analogue fairly easily if you know what you're listening for.

I don't know that quantisation has much of an audible effect for loud passages - the quoted figure is around 100dB although I can't remember it offhand. I suppose it's low level distortions that are the main issue, and I don't know how much of a problem they are after dithering.

Analogue has all kind of faults that digital does not display, and vice versa. Both have distinct qualities too.

Six of one and half a dozen of the other, I guess. Some people just prefer six ! And, to use another cliche, we have some apples and oranges here (and maybe some bad apples spoiling the bunch?).

Perhaps imperfections in analogue transfer make it sound more like you're "there" because of some psychoacoustic effect of third harmonic distortion. It's hard to say, really.

As you say, goosie, much is opinion, but much is also what you're used to

Much as I mean this, I probably neglected to say it. And on the other side of the coin, what I meant have said but not meant is that digital systems sound better. What I believe is that a digital system has the potential to be better than any analogue system does, and I damn well want to make one

I couldn't say, in all honesty, because the only reason I use what I do (Logic) is because someone gave me an illegal copy of it. There might be some freeware stuff, but I haven't really looked around. Cert can give much better advice than me, as well as a few other members of the forum

Rosescar wrote: goose wrote: Any multitrack editing software should have a mixer built in, regardless of how bad it is, so you won't need anything but a microphone connected to your computer, really. You can do everything software based, except playing (and you can even do some of that!) That's what I'm looking for. What would you recommend me for the both? Total price at a max of, say, 60 euros.

I'm very keen on Magix Studio - for the money, there's nothing better - but it does depend how you like to work.

Details

Buy last year's version on Amazon cheaply

Or the latest version, only slightly less cheaply

 

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All you'll ever need

Edited by Certif1ed

...although you really want one of these;

There's a cheapo Sennheiser on dolphinmusic for about £25 - you can't go too far wrong with Sennheisers - but I've never used one, so can't vouch for that exact model.