My initial article about digital recording that I have had printed in various locations on the internet for some time, talks about the two primary audio formats midi. and wav.

I have decided consequently, to devote the next few articles to addressing some of the concerns I have received about this initial article.

Keep in thoughts that the wav. format is the one that is used for burning directly to CD. To do this, you just require to open your CD burning software, find your wav. file and drag or drop it into your burn list.

Also maintain in thoughts that you can document directly to wav. and forgo the midi. format totally. Midi. has some specialised recording makes use of that I will cover later on in subsequent articles.

For now, some useful things that you can do by recording directly to the wav. format

For instance, someone asked about recording your old L.P.s (What’s that?) or tapes to CD.

To do this, you require to hook-up a tape player or document player (?) to the input of your sound card.

Most more recent computers have a sound card, accessible from the again panel. If you look there, you will see the inputs to your sound card an input for a microphone that will usually have a small microphone picture by it and an additional input for stereos and this kind of. You will usually also find outputs for extra speakers.

The common input for stereos and this kind of is exactly where you plug the output of your player.

Subsequent, find the software for your sound card. This can often be found in equipment. The software should consist of a recorder. You may have to select the proper input in your recorder’s choices or file menu.

Subsequent, play your tape or L.P. whilst recording it with your sound card recording software. This recording can be saved directly as a wav. file and then effortlessly burned to CD.

If your source is an older L.P. that has scratches, there is software accessible to clean it up.

If, by chance, you don’t have a sound card, you may want to buy one. Go down to your nearby computer shop and choose one up for a remarkably low cost.

I have recorded entire L.P.s to CD such as some uncommon 45s of luminaries like Mario Lanza

Brian Beshore is a graduate of the Peabody College of audio. He has played in many groups, in nicely recognized venues this kind of as the Coach House in San Juan Capistrano, exactly where he was component of the opening act for Hunter S. Thompson. You can listen to his audio at http://www.dizzyobrian.com