Digital Home Recording Tips - part 1

At O’Reilly.com they are doing a piece on Digital Home Recording. What is needed to make a great recording in your own home and how to sound professional.
One of the most common questions posed by beginning and intermediate recordists is “How do I get rid of background noise in my recording?” It’s all too easy [...]

New Weekly Feature - Quality Podcasting and Vidcasting

Hare Krishna! My name is Rupa Madhurya das and I’ll be posting a series of articles on the equipment I use to produce my “Classes and Bhajans” podcast. I post both audio and video recordings of Classes, Bhajans, and other events that I have the opportunity to attend. Since I currently live in Dallas, much [...]

Comparison Chart Portable Audio Recorders

O’reilly is a great source for audio related reviews and blogs. The blog of Mark Nelson in particular always sports nice articles. But now he did it! He made a comparison between current audio recorders. So here it is. (You can also visit his blog)
The table could be unreadable. So here you can download the pdf.

Recorder
Price*
Pros
Cons
Bonus [...]

Recording Classes and Bhajans - What should i buy?

Question 
I would like make audio recordings of classes and bhajans. What should i buy?
Answer
Personally i think, at this moment, the best buy is :

Edirol R-09HR - $350 - 400
Zoom H2 - $170-200

Other answers
iPod and others
You could use an iPod, or other standard mp3 player to record. But do not expect too much quality from that. The low [...]

Upgrading your Laptop Hard Disk

You find yourself again questioning where to put your latest classes or seminars? Running out of hard disk space? No more storage space for the latest MP3 album of Prahlad Prabhu?
Now it is the time to upgrade!!!
Depending on your laptop brand & type you can (easily) replace the internal hard disk. Mind you that this [...]