Lately I've seen an increasing interest from our clients in setting up home studios to record auditions from home.
What equipment to buy?
Mac or PC?
What software to use?
This article from Download Squad is a brief write up on one free (Audacity) and one cheap (Reaper) audio editors.
I've been a big fan of Audacity for a while now. For the basic mechanics of recording and editing, you just can't beat free, and the learning curve isn't that steep. Plus the fact that it plays equally well between PC and Mac (my favorite "feature") means that no matter what computer someone uses, they can always have a consistent recording interface (a definite plus for some of our less tech-savvy clients).
I haven't tried Reaper yet, but one of the features not listed in the article, it's ability to run off of a USB pen drive or external hardware ("Portable"), has me intrigued.
How nice would that be?
Grab a USB mic, or soundcard, and a thumb drive, and you could record from any computer anywhere. That'd be nice...
Audacity and Reaper provide free and cheap audio editing - Download Squad
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