Recording is what a “recording studio” does, but that word “recording” covers an awful lot of ground. Literally, it refers to the act of getting sounds down, whether on tape, vinyl, or a computer’s hard drive, so those sounds can be accessed and heard at some later point in time.
But when we say we’re “recording”, we’re often doing things other than just shoving a mike in front of something that’s making noise, and storing that noise for posterity.

So, to help organize my thoughts about what recording is, I’ve broken down the activity of  recording in the studio into three phases, tracking, mixing, and mastering

That first phase, tracking, is the stage that involves the most actual recording activity - that’s the stage of your project where we record the sounds that you (and your collaborators/bandmates) produce.

Mixing is the stage where we listen to all those sounds we’ve recorded, and balance them so they sound right together.

Mastering is the final stage where we take the stereo track we’ve recorded and mixed, and tweak it to just make it sound better, the final polish.

All recording takes place within the confines of my DAW software, Steinberg’s Nuendo. Like ProTools, it’s multi-track recording and editing software with amazing power. Unlike ProTools, it offers 32 bit floating point resolution for internal signal processing, offering superior sonic results. I’ve been using Steinberg’s DAW software for over ten years, and really love the way it works and sounds.

The studio is capable of recording as many as 24 live tracks simultaneously, with enough audio isolation between sources to record (for example) drums, bass, two guitars and a scratch vocal with negligible  bleed from track to track.

(more to come...)