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Re: What is the minimum system requirements to do high quality small time recording? i.e. How much Ram and disk space, and What cpu and soound card?

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Posted by Geoff @ Hitsquad (from: zzjhorto.dialin.uq.net.au) on March 28, 1999 at 19:17:29:

In Reply to: What is the minimum system requirements to do high quality small time recording? i.e. How much Ram and disk space, and What cpu and soound card? posted by Cook on March 28, 1999 at 18:26:08:

This kind of question can cause quite a lot of confusion for people. You can spend $10,000 on a system or you can spend $1,000. It's really up to you. The first thing to do is know what kind of recording quality you want. If you're just going to lay down some demos and maybe MP3 them, you can use a program such as n-Track Studio to lay down your tracks. But to answer your question, if you're doing multitrack hard disc recording you might want to consider the following configuration:

* 32 Meg of RAM (64 Meg recommended)
* Hard disc - the larger the better if you are doing multi-track. If the average pop song can take up 50 Meg, think about how much space 8 audio tracks would take up if you recorded them in 16 bit stereo sound.
* Sound cards can cause a lot of debate but a full duplex, 16-bit sound card is the absolute minimum.

Remember, this is just a basic, low-budget system. There probably will be people who diagree with me. They're welcome to throw theor two cents in, we're all here to learn.

Cheers
Geoff

: I want to know what is important for recording sound on a computer. How much
: memory and disk space is required? what kind of sound card would you
: recomend? What are the important specs to watch in
: sound cards? Is Sound Blaster the way to go? why or why not? Is there something else that I
: am missing that I need to be aware of?

:
: I would realy apreciate any information you could give me, or any pointers or
: recomendations that would get me going in the right direction.

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: This kind of question can cause quite a lot of confusion for people. You can spend $10,000 on a system or you can spend $1,000. It's really up to you. The first thing to do is know what kind of recording quality you want. If you're just going to lay down some demos and maybe MP3 them, you can use a program such as <a href="http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/n-Track_studio/">n-Track Studio</a> to lay down your tracks. But to answer your question, if you're doing multitrack hard disc recording you might want to consider the following configuration: : * 32 Meg of RAM (64 Meg recommended) : * Hard disc - the larger the better if you are doing multi-track. If the average pop song can take up 50 Meg, think about how much space 8 audio tracks would take up if you recorded them in 16 bit stereo sound. : * Sound cards can cause a lot of debate but a full duplex, 16-bit sound card is the absolute minimum. : Remember, this is just a basic, low-budget system. There probably will be people who diagree with me. They're welcome to throw theor two cents in, we're all here to learn. : Cheers : Geoff : : : I want to know what is important for recording sound on a computer. How much : : memory and disk space is required? what kind of sound card would you : : recomend? What are the important specs to watch in : : sound cards? Is Sound Blaster the way to go? why or why not? Is there something else that I : : am missing that I need to be aware of? : : : : I would realy apreciate any information you could give me, or any pointers or : : recomendations that would get me going in the right direction.

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