Ok, so you can’t just grab your old dusty laptop that you mainly use for Facebook browsing and hope it will work in a home recording studio, it probably won’t. But there was a lot of useful information out there and it lead to me purchasing a laptop with a spec that has never let me down! I read loads of articles from people saying, don’t bother, get a desktop bla bla bla. I don’t have the space for a drum kit at home so I will sometimes take it to a studio to record drums without having to use someone else’s setup, I have my tracks ready to go and I just plug in and record.īefore I splashed out on my faithful laptop (almost 4 years ago and still going strong), I did a tonne of research into what to look for in a laptop for music production. I’ve even taken it to a church when I wanted to record the acoustics there. It has allowed me to mix and even record parts of songs whilst on the train.
If you are as busy as me, this is a great thing to have. The main one is portability. With a laptop, I have a music studio I can effectively take anywhere. But a laptop gives me other things which I find very handy. It just wasn’t possible until recently to get a laptop with the spec required for a reasonable price and that wouldn’t explode as soon as you tried to open your DAW software.ĭon’t get me wrong, for the money you can probably get a much better desktop computer, custom fitted with everything you could ever want. Mainly because of the reasons mentioned above.
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I personally made the move from my (not so trusty) desktop PC to a laptop around 4 years ago. Laptop vs desktop for home audio production?
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It shows how far technology has come and it’s great! So the fact that you are here, even contemplating using a LAPTOP in a home recording studio is quite remarkable. I remember computers even into the early 2000s that were just about capable of playing a CD or running a word processor. But to get the required spec you had to spend a lot of money. Where tape only recorded continuous analog sounds, digital recordings work by taking a large number of small samples of a sound very quickly.īut even once the digital recording was invented it was a luxury reserved only for high-end professional recording studios for a long time.Įventually, it would be possible to buy a computer for your home which would be capable of use in a recording setup. But as with tape recording before it, digital completely changed the musical world and the way music production was done. It wasn’t until the 1970’s that digital recording even became a thing. This method made recordings of much higher quality and also meant they could be much longer in length.
The very first recordings in the early 20th century were created by a large horn-shaped object capturing sound and literally drawing out sound waves onto paper or wax.īy the middle of the century, magnetic tape recording became the technology of choice. Over the past 100 years, audio recording has advanced significantly.
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