Digital Recording

Digital recording, editing, mixing and mastering has become the industry standard format for record making over the years since it’s creation.  Digital recording gives artists the ability to create literally anything they want with the formats seemingly limitless creative boundaries.  Recording digitally does pose some limitations from the technological standpoint.  Sound has not yet been digitally recorded in the same sonic depth as analog recording can produce.  Many engineers and hi fidelity sound lovers argue that digital is nothing compared to analog.  With bigger hard drives and faster processors come more realistic digital sound recordings.  The fact is that digital recording eats up a lot of storage space on computers.

Digital recording has made it possible for anyone with a computer or stand-alone recorder to make music.  Most programs are designed to be appealing and easy to operate from a visual context.  Home studio owners need only know how to a few critical commands in a program in order to record, edit and mix their own music.  Instruments are digital, recorders are digital, effects are digital, in fact almost anything available in hardware form or as an instrument can be reproduced digitally.  That puts endless musical possibilities in the hands of everyday people and streamlines the creative process for music professionals.    

Sony developed the first digital recording device in 1978.  Professional engineers were the first to use this new technology but it soon became useful to a much wider group of people.  You can find digital recording devices in many office and home environments such as the answering machine, hand held dictation devices, home recording equipment and many more.  

I love digital and find myself embracing every aspect of the technology.  I cannot get enough.  I want to record, use it in my live performances, and capture the sounds and activities around my home as another form of documenting memories using something other than a camera.  I enjoy movies more than ever now that I can simply stream one to my computer or handheld smart phone.  They were all recorded digitally or have been re-formatted to digital.  I am a digital guy all the way and cannot wait to produce records using all of its flexibilities and boundless offerings.