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Cutting Your Own CD If your dream in life is to walk into a record store and see your very own CD on the shelf... get in li
Cutting Your Own CD If your dream in life is to walk into a record store and see your very own CD on the shelf... get in li
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Cutting Your Own CD
If your dream in life is to walk into a record store and see your very own CD on the shelf... get in line. This happens for only a very lucky few. But recent advances in technology make it pretty easy for you to achieve the dream of producing and recording your own CD. With the right equipment and software, if you can move a mouse or press a button you can record your own CD.
If you have a computer, all you really have to do is buy some software. If you want to make a small investment, there are digital recorders on the market that will take care of everything for you recording, mixing, mastering and burning, all in one neat package (though you do have to play your own instruments).
In this article, you’ll find out the basics of CD production, from planning to recording to understanding the tools of the trade. There was a time when producing your own CD meant serious cash. You had to pay for studio time, studio engineers, studio musicians (if you’re a solo artist) and duplicating your recording.
In the 1970s, when cassette tapes became cheap, available and recordable, people could distribute their own music and make cheap copies of anything. But the sound quality left something to be desired. Now, even the novice musician can produce a CD with a high sound quality.
Recording your own CD, unlike using a studio, is not insanely expensive. You can record your own high-quality digital CD with your own inexpensive equipment out of your own house, garage, basement, at tic ...
And for the technologically impaired (弱的), there’s more good news: You don’t need any special skills to record your own CD. Recording machines of the past required the skills of a studio engineer. Things have changed. With the use of computers and digital recording systems, all that’s required is the ability to read and follow instructions. Another benefit of doing it yourself is that you can totally control your own music. And since it costs next to nothing to burn copies of your CD, you can easily give them to friends and acquaintances--shameless self-promotion is entirely encouraged--and sell them at performances or on the Internet for a profit.
There are really only four steps involved here; recording, mixing, mastering, and burning. You just need equipment that will perform these four tasks. There are three basic ways you can go about this. Component-Based Hardware System--this system involves separate pieces of recording, mixing, effect and CD-burning hardware, so you’re dealing with an assortment of equipment.
Computer-Based Recording System--almost any powerful computer can run recording and CD--burning software. Many of these programs will let you mix the music and create effects. The costs here are lower than for a component-based set-up.
Studio Workstation--this type of equipment provides almost everything you need to cut your own CD in one portable unit. Getting equipped, you can begin the four steps now.
Recording. Whether we’re talking vocals (声乐作品), guitar, drums, whatever, a recording device eaves the individual tracks and lets you play them back. Depending on the recorder, you might be saving the sound on a hard disk. a memory card, a digital tape or a CD. So you’ll need a way to capture the sound and route it to the recorder (the studio workstation, mixer or computer is the recorder by the way).
When you record vocals, you’ll capture the sound using a microphone. The microphone will be connected to an input jack(插孔) on your computer, mixer or studio workstation. The noise you make gets into the recording equipment through this input jack.
When you want to record electric instruments, the process is pretty much the same. Instead of using a microphone, you just plug your electric guitar, electric bass, drum machine or synthesizer right into the recording device.
If you want to use music you’ve already recorded music on a CD or cassette tape, you can record from the CD or cassette the way you do with instruments. Just connect a tape player or CD player to your recorder and hit "Play". All you’re doing is taking music from one source and making it available on another. Any program will have complete instructions on recording just about anything you’ve got a lot of leeway(回旋余地) here.
Mixing. After you’ve recorded your music, you blend all the elements together. You mix the vocals with the guitar, bass, drum and other instrument tracks.
The mixer gives you control over the volume and sound of each track, and you can set the volume of each track in relation to the other tracks on the recording, so for instance, you can make the vocal track louder than the guitar track in the final mix. Without mixing, the guitar track may be too loud to hear the vocal track.
The main goal of mixing your music is to balance your track levels. Whatever mixer or computer mixing program you use will give you guidelines for adjusting the sound levels of the music.
During mixing, you need to pan(淘选) the tracks on your CD. When you listen to music, the sound comes from two separate speakers during the panning process, you adjust each sound to make sure it comes from the ideal place. For example, lead vocals and guitar often are panned to the center, and background harmonies come out of the sides (left and right). The controls on your mixer let you experiment to find the best configuration.
You can also adjust the equalization of your music. Equalization or EQ is the tone of the music. EQ is very similar to the bass and treble knobs on your home or car stereo. On your recorded tracks, you can select an element of sound and change the tone. For instance, you can make high vocals sound deeper or make the bass line pound a little harder.
Depending on your mixer, you may also be able to add effects to your music (if your mixer doesn’t come with this capability, you can just buy an extra program or an external effects machine). There are a lot of different effects you can use to alter the sound of your music, and the right effects can turn a homegrown CD into a professional-sounding album.
Mastering. Once you’re done mixing, you need to prepare the mix for the transfer to a CD. Mastering your music essentially means going over the recording one more time to make sure everything sounds the way you want it to before you put it on a CD.
Mastering has three main ideas: (1) Identify and fix any problems in your music. The best way to do this is to listen very carefully to your final mix Check the overall levels. Work with the track volumes. (2)Check the overall EQ. You can make volume corrections by equalizing as well as setting your levels. Make sure the tone of the music is what you’re going for. Be sure to experiment until you find the perfect spot. (3)Add track markers to your CD. Up to now, "track" referred to a part of your music, such as a vocal track or a guitar tracks it now refers to an individual song. If your CD has more than one track, you need to put a marker at the beginning of each one This is so the CD player knows where each song starts. Again, your equipment will have directions that walk you through the how-to.
Burning. At last, it’s time to burn your masterpiece. The CD burner may be an independent device, part of a computer or built into a studio workstation. There are two types of CDs you can use to burn your music. Most CD burners use CD-R ’RW. CD-R discs can’t be erased once you burn them (the music CDs you buy m stores are CD-R). CD-RW discs can be erased so that you can reburn them.
Burning a CD is cake. The only major decision you have is whether you want to burn the entire CD in one shot or burn one song at a time. Adding one song at a time lets you burn different versions of the same song onto one CD, and you can build the album one song at a rime, burning tracks as you complete them
The idea of using CD to replace cassette tape was driven by the low sound quality of the latter.
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A、Y
B、N
C、NG
答案
C
解析
题干是在讨论CD出现的原因。通过略读,我们确实发现了CD的声音质量高于录音磁带这一事实,但是至于这是不是推动了CD的出现,文中并没有给出相关信息。
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