You need five basic things to make excellent recordings besides your instrument or voice: A mic, a mixer, headphones, an audio interface for your computer, and recording software.
Now that computers and recording software are household items -- new Apple computers come with a program called GarageBand -- recording at home, for musicians, has become routine.
Next, equip your computer with some recording software.
Computer-based voice recording software were comparatively time-consuming, unreliable, logistically difficult and burdensome, although it may be that such software becomes less cumbersome and more dependable in the future.
However, this was even more so for the computer-based voice recording software, where the operator needed to consistently check the screen for wording, to repeat phrases and to, in turn, transcribe the data onto the paper-based forms.
After experimenting with other solutions, he found Java and JavaFX to be the optimal language and application to power and process (from any computer) the high-quality recording software that is now run on Indaba.
You also need a computer, a microphone, and recording software to record your own music.
Connect your cassette player to your computer, open up your recording software, and try recording a little audio.
Plug your headphones / speakers in the output jack of your computer and set your recording software up to monitor the instrument sound back out to the headphones / speakers.
