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The digital switchover is confusing to a lot of people, not least because different areas are switching at different times. Many people don’t see why the change will affect them so I hope this will help.

Digital switchover will affect anyone who watches a TV through an aerial. The aerial receives transmissions via a transmitter in your area to give you your television programmes. There are more than 1,150 transmitters in 80 groups. These groups will gradually switch to digital transmissions so that you can receive digital programmes instead of analogue (what we have now) programmes. Digital TV will have more channels, about 20 rather than just BBC1, BBC2, ITV1, C4, C5 as we do now.

Within the 80 groups of transmitters there is a main transmitter and local relay transmitters. If you are able to receive transmissions from a main transmitter it is likely that you will receive about 40 channels. You may live in an area where you get signals from more than one transmitter so you may get a better signal from one more than the other and also may get more programmes.

It may be that your aerial does not receive the transmissions well and it might need to be replaced, but wait to see if it’s necessary before changing it. There is an aerial test page on Teletext page 284 so you can find out if its likely you will need a new aerial.

If you do need to have a new aerial installed use a Registered Digital Installer. Look for the digital tick logo, this means that they have been properly trained and security checked.

Your TV may not be able to receive the digital signal. If you have a new TV with Freeview built in then you will be ok. If not you will need to get a Digibox that will convert your TV to accept Freeview (digital TV programmes). When buying a digibox look for the digital tick logo so that you know it will be ready to receive signals after the switchover. Also check the connections you have on your TV. Most TV’s have a SCART socket but if yours doesn’t then you need to get a digibox with a RF modulator built in.

If you use a recorder to record one channel while you watch another then you should think about buying a digital recorder that will convert your TV as well.

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Tom Jacobsen is a writer for www.zenostore.co.uk and has worked in the electronics industry for many years.

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Electronic Medical Records – Delivering Convenience To Health Watch

November 2, 2010 in Gear by stagemaster

• Save you for a doctor’s visit. It is true that leaving your busy day for a doctor’s visit is a really painful sacrifice. This is especially true if you will be headed just for a single question that needs to be answered or a single prescription that must be reordered. With the help of this electronic recording, you can be saved from the visits to your physician. Instead, you can simply sit in front of your computer and just track down your electronic record. Or, you can just send your doctor an email. • Will give you an eye on your family’s health. This kind of recording allows you to track down the medical record of any of your family members anywhere you are. Therefore, you don’t anymore need to visit a doctor just to check for updates in the status of the people close to you. • Will allow you access to medical histories. Here, even your x-ray results and other diagnostics can be saved in the digital recording through digital photos. All of these can be saved or stored in a database and can be retrieved anytime and anywhere, even in the future. • Let you double check your prescriptions. There always come a time when you need to double check the prescriptions provided to you by your physician. In this case, you can easily do that by simply opening your digital records. There are lesser chances that you can make any mistakes in here. Much more, the dosage and interactions are completely saved here. • Records are easy available via mobile phone or computers. Actually, this is the big plus with these kinds of medical records. You will have the chance to access your medical records easily as they come available in computers and even in your cellular phone. There are different applications that you can use here such as Medical Billing Software via Google and a lot more. Furthermore, no matter how busy and complicated your days seem to be, there can be no more reason to just leave you and your family’s health ignored. Through the new Electronic Medical Records system, you can always sneak a few minutes out of your busy schedule to check out for the automatic digital system. Indeed, this can bring you convenience in terms of watching the most important thing in your life, which is none other than your health.

The EMR is more efficient, cost effective, and safer to use. One great example of this kind of electronic recording is the Medical Billing Software. Actually, it can give more benefits than what the old system can provide. In fact, here are some of the advantages the EMR can offer to you

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Electronic Medical Records Improve Health Care

October 24, 2010 in Gear by stagemaster

What Are Electronic Medical Records and Why Are They Important?

An electronic medical record is a digital document used by an organization that delivers patient care, such as a hospital, a doctor’s office or a clinic. Electronic medical records are usually part of a health information system that allows storage, retrieval and manipulation of records.

Patient care organizations usually decide to switch from paper records to digital records for a number of reasons:

Speed and ease of access;
Nearly immediate updates of charts and records;
Complete records, including xray images, scans and other test information;
Ease of consultation on difficult cases;
Easier, faster billing processes;
Lower cost of record storage;
Facilitate the collection of data for disease studies and drug tests.

Many doctors feel that they are able to provide better, more well-coordinated care to their patients, particularly in emergency situations, because they have immediate access to charts, medication records, test results and other vital information via their wireless devices, no matter where they are.

Are Electronic Medical Record Secure?

One of the major concerns that most patients have regarding electronic medical records is privacy and security. Financial institutions paved the way for secure transactions systems in the mid 2000′s, so the hard work of security and privacy has already been done and proven. EMR systems can make use of the policies, guidelines and monitoring systems that have been proven in the financial arena to ensure patients’ privacy in the medical arena.

With additional Federal funding being funneled into the establishment of EMR infrastructure (device, network and applications) companies in the United States will be able to provide secure EMR systems and help drive the over-haul of the United States Health System.

How Do Patient Provider Institutions Get Started in EMR?

The first stage in converting any paper medical system to EMR is to scan the archived patient records and prepare them for inclusion in the electronic medical record system. Generally, this work is done by outsourcing to a qualified medical scanning service bureau. A qualified medical scanning service bureau will meet all HIPPA guidelines for the conversion of paper files to digital files.

The service bureau should be capable of scanning:

Patient Records
Medical Charts
Health Service Provider Notes
Insurance Bills
Explanation of Benefits (EOBs)
Ambulance Call Reports
Fetal Traces
Technical Reports

In addition, for medical institutions that have archive files of X-Ray film, they should choose a scanning service bureau with experience in X-Ray film scanning. Generally speaking, anyone who offers X-Ray film scanning services should be able to:

scan up to 14 x 17″ film and recognize down to a 44mm Spot size;
support any Picture Archiving and Communications Systems (PACS) system;
directly support DICOM, as well as emerging standards from LizardTech offers up to 50-1 image compression in order to reduce bottle-necks during image sharing;
provide a viewing system, technology and process that can eliminate most or all network and traffic problems when you consider a PACS system;
provide custom applications for radiologist needs, and review / clinical conferences.

The author of the article is working with a Radiology Services Online – http://www.radiologyservicesonline.com that offers the most comprehensive web-based storage, exchange and interpretation of images for radiology providers.

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Digital Information – a Very Easy Way to Store Data

October 21, 2010 in Gear by stagemaster

Digital is a very broad term that refers to all digital information that is used in items related to computer usage such as digital audio recorders, digital cameras and any other computing item. This word is extensively used in the world of electronics and computing where it means the conversion of normal data to the binary numerical version of 0 (pulse is low or absent) and 1 (pulse is high or present). These information carrying signals include electronic signals and are used in the fields of digital photography like in digital cameras and digital audio in digital recorders, digital CD players and CD’s.

Digital noise is also a very important part of this conversion, which can interrupt the transmission of these signals. This noise can arise due to several reasons: a wireless transmission of data as in a radio transmission where the digital noise leads to a faulty transmission of data. There can also be interference from wireless sources like televisions and mobile phones in a transmission, which can corrupt the signals. Background noise from the environment can also be a major cause of faulty transmission of digital data.

The faulty transmission can be quite particular in case of transmission of electric pulses through wires, which can be changed due to the capacitance of the wire and its resistance. Although slight alterations in the digital signals are not considerable because they can be neglected once the data is received. But in any analog system, variations can be quite bothersome and all care must be taken to avoid any distortions when transferring data via an analog system.

A digital system makes use of separate values to depict information for processing, input, storage and transmission. On the contrary, a recurring system of values is used by an analog or a non-digital system for the depiction of information. The information that is depicted in a digital system can be both continuous as in images or sounds or any other measurements that are taken up in continuous mechanisms or discrete like in numbers, icons and letters. Alphanumeric characters that are used for encoding digital information are not recurring and as a result conversion of information to digital data is pretty simple. There are also lesser chances of data loss unlike cases of analog to digital change. Instead of the complex techniques, if simpler techniques like encoding and polling are used in an analog-to-digital conversion.

A symbol input device that is used for conversion of an analog data to digital data includes a large number of switches that are put at frequent intervals to check if any one of them is pressed in a single polling interval. Data will be corrupted if two switches or a single switch gets pressed. This kind of checking or polling can be accomplished by an expert processor present in the symbol input device to avoid any hassling of the CPU. When a different symbol gets entered in the system, the device sends an automatic alert to the CPU to receive and decode it.

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An Audio Recorder Can Be Handy!

October 18, 2010 in Gear by stagemaster

There are many different occupations where an audio recorder can be a very helpful and handy device to possess. You might be a salesperson and after leaving a client’s place of business, you can verbally speak your orders for them into the audio recorder to transfer to the appropriate computer screen once you are back in the office or at home. Or perhaps you are a writer who might get an idea, or want to make some “notes” you yourself while driving, or doing something out in public. The same situation could apply to a scientist who might get a thought and want to remind his or herself of the idea later on.

A realtor, attorney, or doctor might want to record the conversation with a client, or new prospect, with the other person’s permission, of course. The audio recorder can be very helpful in this situation as well. Or perhaps a college student wants to bring this type of device to a class or lecture where they will be able to capture every word the professor says for studying reasons later on. There are a variety of uses for the audio recorder.

If you exercise, you will know that it is hard to look at a picture and try to do the particular move at the same time. With this recorder you can describe the move in your own words slowly and then perform the exercise.

Have you ever gotten instructions over the phone about your computer or some other device and prompty forgotten them after you hung up? I know I have. With this device you can record the instructions and not worry about what was said.

Do you have a neighbor with a nuisance barker? I love dogs but a nuisance barker can really get on your nerves. Most people don’t want to believe their little darling is misbehaving. With this device you have the proof for them to listen to with their own ears

There are a few good models of these gadgets on the market, and one of the best is the MSC RX76 which is a digital recording device that doesn’t need those “old fashioned” tapes, but rather records voices and sounds digitally. Later when the unit is plugged via USB port into your computer, you are able to hear, edit, and store all of the audio and information. There are two models of this wonderful audio recorder; one which has a 288 hour capacity of recording time, and the other which features 576 hours. These beauties operate on one “AAA” battery and the unit only weighs two ounces.

Of course whichever audio recorder you select, will feature a built-in microphone and speaker, as well as a jack for an external microphone or speaker. These can even be used to hook up to a telephone for recording a conversation, with the other person’s permission, of course. Then there’s the built-in clock which can register the recording time.

You might not find a splendid device such as this audio recorder just anywhere, but you can obtain one online from a fabulous website that specializes in hidden cameras and surveillance equipment to protect you, your family, your home, and your business. Please visit www.nannycamsetc.com and take a look at the wonderful selection!

Rosalie Kimberlin, the author, spent almost 30 years on a large metropolitan police department, most of it as a sex crime investigator. She is now the owner of Rk Enterprises. In a continuing effort to protect the “good guys” she offers personal protection and surveillance products through http://www.peppersprayetc.com and http://www.nannycamsetc.com.

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The Theatre Of Happy Hardcore Vinyl Records

October 12, 2010 in Gear by stagemaster

A good collection of happy hardcore vinyl records is almost guaranteed to lift your spirits, and having a few of these songs is always likely to cheer you up if you’re feeling gloomy. I have a collection of happy hardcore vinyl records which I bring out whenever I need a lift or a boost – perhaps if I have work or am feeling low on energy. Hardcore music itself is highly distinctive, often having up to around 180 beats per minute – that’s fast!

But whereas hardcore music started to become quite dark, with a good lot of bass thrown in for good measure, happy hardcore took a different route, going for a more uplifting feel, with the same fast tempo, but a 4/4 beat which, in combination with some of the vocals and higher melodies created a positive, energetic and happy sound. Those performers who took the other route and developed darker, heavier and more bass-laden music tended to either remain in the hardcore genre or even fall into the jungle scene.

But happy hardcore has proven to be popular in clubs, at raves and even venues such as fairgrounds! Yes, some of it can be a little cheesy, but there’s no denying that if you don’t start tapping your foot then it’s been nailed to the floor. In which case, just wave your arms about or something.

At its heart happy hardcore uses a good deal of synthesized sound, with either digitizer synthesizers or samples an inherent aspect of the sound. But since hardcore, and happy hardcore is so digitized already, why take the trouble to transfer this music to vinyl? Surely happy hardcore vinyl records lose against the more modern, slicker CD format or even the ultra portable and entirely ubiquitous MP3?

Because happy hardcore has managed to appeal so widely, to so many different types of audience, its format and media are just as varied. Yes, if you’re running a fairground ride you may just make do with a CD or an MP3. After all, over the sound of the neighboring rides and the screams of the petrified riders it hardly matters. But if you’re at a club, or perhaps even a connoisseur of good music at home, then you’ll be able to appreciate the difference. For one thing, vinyl records provide a great deal more versatility and flexibility than either CDs or MP3s.

For example, have you ever tried scratching, mixing or spinning a CD? If you scratch a CD you can’t use it for much else besides a pretty ineffective coaster! Most professional, and even many amateur DJs much prefer vinyl simply because it allows such a hands on approach to music, creating a performance rather than simply acting as an automated button pusher. Music should be about creativity, and there’s no good reason why that should end when it comes to the DJ or music player.

But vinyl also adds another quality to the playing of music – creating a performance rather than merely reciting a series of sounds. Ever tried to recite a poem? Many people recite a poem as though reciting a shopping list. If you’ve ever heard a performance poet or an actor recite a poem, you’ll have noticed how much more alive the words, sounds, thoughts, feelings and even the rhythm seems. Music should be treated the same way, and although there’s never going to be anything to entirely compare to having the real life happy hardcore musicians in front of you playing live, vinyl records seem to bring that greater sense of performance and individuality. Even the cracks and whistles seem to be a part of the sound, and loved for their uniqueness!

If you’ve ever put a vinyl record on to play, you’ll be more than familiar with the click, hiss and crackle which is the prelude to any musical recording on such a medium. I am not alone in sharing a great love for this moment – a little like being at the theatre, when the lights in the auditorium dim. You know something’s about to happen – the performance is about to start, and you sit back, feel excited and watch for the curtains to open. Playing music is a little like that, when you just want to listen to a piece of music and enjoy it for its own sake. Having a CD or an MP3 blast you with a digitized, compressed rendition of the track is one thing, but being allowed a crackly prelude, a moment of anticipation and a uniqueness of performance that involves a layer so often absent from most digitized recordings, helps turns a recording into a performance.

Happy hardcore vinyl records have a very special place in my record collection, brought out at regular intervals to make me feel good, lift my spirits and energy. In some ways trance and happy hardcore have very strong, shared roots, and many artists have gone from one to the other. Trance is also about feeling the music and letting the performance stir you and wake you up. Digitized music? Great for the masses, but give me vinyl for the performance.

Barnaby Milne is a musician, DJ and avid collector of music from the 70s to today, particularly happy hardcore vinyl records and for happy hardcore music vinyl is his top recommendation.

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Now You Can Record Phone Calls With The Click Of A Button

October 9, 2010 in Gear by stagemaster

You know the President of the United States probably records all of his phone call conversations. Haven’t you ever wanted that sort of power? You’re in luck! We can’t help you get started on the campaign trail but we can give you the power to record phone calls on your own. How does this process work? It’s relatively simple you plug a special device into the phone and click a button when it’s time to record.

You may be aware of the invention of a phone recorder, as in the proverbial cassette tape recorder that everyone has owned at least once. However, the newest line of digital recorders are hitting the market and are making spying, recording and protection a breeze. You simply hook the device up and click a button for recording to begin. Imagine the power you now possess as the owner of a telephone recorder (and head of the household) and being able to spy on your teenage children, spouse and neighbors. Sure, it’s nosey to record phone calls but you know what they always say about “under my house and by my rules.” Besides, what’s the big secret about, that all your friends and family can’t be straight with you? You deserve to know what’s being said on your own phone!

You can record up to whole day’s conversation on some of these new phone recorders. Better yet, you can transfer either the cassette tape to another player or a digital file to your hard drive. Not everyone uses cassette players anymore but it’s safe to assume most people have a computer. And if you don’t have a computer stop reading this immediately! The ability to record phone calls and then transfer the file to any electronic medium like a PC, cell phone, PDA or iPod is indeed a luxury.

Some devices that record phone calls also record surrounding sounds in person. If you go to a work meeting or if there’s a particularly rousing sermon in church, all you have to do is hit the record button and the device will record everything within an ear’s hearing distance. Just be careful not to hit playback and fast forward during the minister’s discourse—you don’t want people to think you’re speaking in tongues.

It’s easy to understand why this technology will revolutionize many industries, from the legal profession to the medical community to even real estate businesses. Now you have a means of collecting evidence, protecting you and those you love, and a decisive way to say “I told you so!” These devices that record phone calls can be found in some electronic stores, but your best bet is to order them online for ideal prices and the highest quality of merchandise.

Dan Robison is the founder of RecorderGear; a website that specializes in selling digital voice recorders, dictation devices, transcription equipment and phone call recorders. Visit our website at http://www.recordergear.com to view and purchase products. For more information, product advice, and product reviews from the experts visit our blog at http://www.recordergear.wordpress.com

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Save money by used recording equipment

October 6, 2010 in Gear by stagemaster

If you are planning to build up a home recording studio then purchasing used recording studio equipment is the perfect alternative available. Used equipments can not only save the money but are also more efficient than the new ones. You can make your own home recording studio without spending extra money by the means of the used equipments. There are a number of online retailers who include collection of used recording equipments in proper functioning order. You can also buy used recording equipments from the online auction of these equipments.

Online auction is one of the best places from where you can get efficient recording equipments at incredible rates. One can find all kind of studio gears like microphones and mixers in the online auction. Estate sales and yard sales are two of the best alternatives from where you can get great deals of the used recording equipments. You must choose the recording equipment according to the format and kind of music you are planning to record in your home studio.

A home studio will need a number of recording equipments such as headphones, microphones, instrument cables, mic stands, adapters, connectors, direct boxes and mic cables. You can get these home studio equipments in an inexpensive way if you buy them used. The used recording equipments might not be as lustrous as the new ones but they will work as efficiently as a new model. You can buy recorders, tapes and Multitrack machines in unbelievably cheap rates if you opt for the used ones.

If you are in need of digital recording equipments then the good fact is that a number of online retailers include used selection of these equipments that can be purchased on interesting discounts. You can find both hard disc formats and tape based formats of the digital recording equipments in the online auction and from online retailers. It is paramount to draft a proper strategy while planning to design a home recording studio.

You must first decide what kind of recording equipments you need. You must fix on your specifications from recording equipment before making a purchase. It is important to prepare a shopping list having the number of items you need and their quantity. It is important for you to get yourself familiar with the different models of the used recording gears so as to choose the best recording gear for your recording needs in home studio.

Michael Russell is the author of the article. You can visit http://www.dragonaudio.com for knowing ways of choosing best recording studio equipment. Dragon audio also includes details of the audio recording equipment of different types and uses.

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Working Out What You Need for Your Home Recording Studio

October 3, 2010 in Gear by stagemaster

An important consideration when looking to set up a ‘home recording studio’ is how you will use it. You will need to work out how many things you want to record or plug in at any one time or you might wind up with uneccessary gear-or not enough!

Let’s look at a typical example of ‘Vinnie’ the guitarist who has a desire to show his ‘band’ how the songs should be played.

No matter how many times he’s tried to explain, they never quite get it right, so the only way he can see to achieve this is to record it all ‘properly’ himself.

What does Vinnie need?

He needs to record a basic drum pattern – nothing fancy – he wants to record two electric guitars, an acoustic guitar, he wants to record a bass guitar and record a main vocal and two backing harmonies.

Vinnie of course will not do all this at once, so even though he needs to record 9 things does he need 9 channels?

No.

All he really ‘needs’ is a maximum of 4 inputs- two with pre-amps. He will also need a microphone to sing into and to record his acoustic guitar, we will asume he has a guitar amp simulator to record the electric guitars and bass and that he has a physical drum machine or one inside his computer or stand alone hard disc recorder.

Vinnie could easily walk down to his music store or get online and find what he needs to get the job done. He could look at a computer recording package with appropriate software and specialised sound card for audio recording. Some companies provide these all in one packages Lexicon, M-Audio, Pro-Tools and Presonus are good brand names to look at as a starting point, but be aware that recording onto a computer can be a frustrating experience if you’re not computer savy.

Vinnie’s other alternative is the stand alone hard disc recorder with a built in mixer section. Any of the offereings from Fostex, Yamaha or Boss/Roland would take care of his needs, at this point Vinnie just wants to get his ideas onto the physical plain as quickly as possible so others can hear them- so he’ll probably need a CD burner thrown in to the equation unless his machine can link up to a computer-as a number of them now can do.

Now let’s look at another example of Barabra who plays in a four piece folk/rock group. They want to record a couple of songs for CD release. All the instruments her band uses are acoustic; Double Bass, Violin ,Guitar and Banjo.

Three of the group also sing. Now Barabara is lucky enough to have a large secluded garage space available for her group to rehearse in and given they don’t annoy the neighbours by making too much noise she wishes to record the band as a ‘whole’ for the best vibe-what will she need?

4 X Instrument Microphones or D.I. [direct injection] boxes

3 X Vocal microphones

8 inputs with Microphone Preamps

Capacity to record on 8 channels at once.

There are some limitations with stand alone recorders, some of them will only let you record on 2 channels at once, another thing to be aware of is the ‘quality’ of the recordings.

Some years ago during the ‘compression algorythm’ wars, clever boffins discovered that our ears can ‘fill in’ missing information, in the same way that you can look at the scrambled letters of a word but are still able to decipher what it is.The boffins kept removing bits of what our ear was hearing until they came up with a formula [algorythm] that fooled our ears most of the time. These are known as ‘compressed’ formats as they ‘squish’ the sound in such a clever way that we don’t notice.

Almost all commercial and home recording computer software will record ‘linear’[non-compressed] files to your computer hard disc. Pro-tools,Logic Audio, Cubase, Sonar all do this. Later on when you ‘mix-down’ your songs you can turn them into mp3 files for podcast or to load to your portable digital music player. Adobe Audition and Steinberg’s Wavelab are two programs I can think of that record direct mp3 files- but they are not ‘full function’ multitrack programs.

When we deal in compressed formats- mp2 mp3 etc, ‘unneccessary’ information is removed making the file sizes smaller [and hence downloads faster]- so these are ‘compressing’ the files. The advantage for the home recordist is that less hard disc space is needed.

A consideration when looking at stand alone recorders is to ask the question- do I want compressed or uncompressed audio. If you have any intention of turning these recordings into something for release then the uncompressed format is the best- you will lose some quality by using a compressed format, but your ideas will be captured quickly for you to work on later. Also bear in mind that a number of hard disc recorders can later transfer data to a computer software system for more elaborate processing so if you use a non-compressed recording format you will retain the quality of your recording.

Now when Barabara popped down the music store to express her needs she told the sales person that, “she wants a high quality recording of her group but I have no idea about computers” so the salesman suggests a stand alone unit with eight inputs that records the data in a non-compressed format. As she doesn’t have a huge budget she chooses to hire in most of the microphones for this recording session. The man at the shop suggests she uses condensor microphones for the instruments and dynamic Shure sm58′s for the vocals.

A crucial quality consideration at this point is the ‘pre-amp’. What does that do and why is it so important you ask?

After your microphone has done the incredible job of sorting out sound pressure waves and converting them into electrical signals, they arrive via microphone cables at the ‘pre-amp’-a short way of saying pre-amplifier. For years I struggled to really ‘get’ what a pre amp did, unitl I understood this:

When the microphone puts out a signal it is very very very very tiny. I now call this ‘mouse level’. Once it’s gone through a pre amp it becomes ‘elephant level’, something that our mixing consoles and digital recorders can use easily.

Hear this:

Depending on the quality of the compoments used, this amplification process can make or break the quality of the recorded sound. A bad pre-amp will add hiss and noise to your recording

Most stand alone recorders and computer sound card interfaces have ‘adequate’ microphone preamps. To make your recordings ‘shine’ I would suggest getting an ‘outboard’[separate component] pre-amp, though having said that the pre-amps in high end Yamaha consoles are gaining a very good reputation. Focusrite/Joe Meek/Avalon/Tc Electronics are great brands. Currently I use a Focusrite Twin-Trak pro, a device specifially for home recording enthusiasts.

To sum up, our friend Vinnie will probably be quite happy with an off the shelf hard disc recorder with 4 or so inputs that records ‘compressed’ files because he is only trying to show his band colleagues a ‘rough’ idea of how he hears things.

Barbara who is not computer savy is looking for a more polished end product and wants to record her group in the best quality for a CD the band will release, hence she needs to record ‘linear’ [non-compressed] data and will look for a unit with the best quality pre-amps she can buy.

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