How To Setup An Audio Interface At Home: Recording Music

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Hi! This is Shana Bethune on behalf of Expert Village and I am going to talk to you about setting up your audio interface. These days there are many different options for how you connect your microphone to the machine that is doing the recording. Now days that machine is almost always a computer. To get from the microophone into the computer you always have to use some sort of audio interface. The audio interface takes the signal and makes it digital. One option is to go directly into the audio input on your computer. The audio input is an audio interface. It is just a very simple one. Doing this is okay in a pinch but you won't get a quality sound. Some microphones have USB cables so that you can send signals into the USB input on your computer. This is a step up from plugging your mic directly into the audio input jack. What you really want though is a way to control and boost the signal coming from your mic. A standard mixer pre-amp combo can do this for you. An easier and perhaps more effective method is to use a fire wire digital audio interface like this one. This gives you a simple way to boost and control the sound and the connection to the computer is seamless. Usually these digital audio interfaces come with software to give you even more control. Make sure that when you are using a digital audio interface, you have room on your power strip to power it. Whatever you choose to do, remember that you want the signal going into your computer to be as powerful and controlled as possible.

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