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I am going to start a series of posts on audio recording, mainly for my own benefit, but also for people out there who might benefit as well.

This first post will cover the basics of computer based audio recording. Whether you are recording a podcast or a full band, the principals are the same; sound waves are captured/generated by a microphone/instrument and then travel to a audio to digital converter, this converter converts the audio waves to a string of ones and zeros and then your recording sequencer of choice records and stores this data on your computer. This is about as basic as one can describe this process, and in reality it isn’t much more complicated than that.

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