How I create Folk Den recordings
The most important piece
of equipment in the recording process is the microphone. I use
a high
quality hand built large diaphragm tube condenser microphone with 11 selectable
patterns. The Stedman 1100b
.
The medium
is secondary, but must be of sufficient quality so as to not degrade the signal
from the microphone. I just built a computer from scratch with four 7200RPM
hard drives, 1 GB of RAM, 280 GB of NTFS drive space, two monitors, running
Windows XP.
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The software
that simulates a multi-track recording machine is very important as well.
I use Adobe
Audition. This gives me 128 tracks of digital audio at 44.1 KHz 24-bit
or better than CD quality. The program will allow me to mix down to the MP3
format.
Once the multitrack
recording is complete, I mix it down and send it to my web site a http://mcguinn.com/
where it is available to people around the world.