Faultlinespine
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I'm wondering if there will be a difference in quality between recording vocals in a professional DAW like Protools or Ableton versus a free program like Audacity. I'm referring to quality of the raw recording data pre mixing. The plan is to record the raw vocal track in Audacity and export it as a wav file for a professional mixer to import into Protools and then work on levels, compression, mixing etc.
I'm using a relatively high end Mic (approx US $1200) the AKG C414 XLS Studio Multipattern Condenser Microphone and the basic but adequate Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 USB audio interface. I'm going to hire out a studio room to record the vocals.
C414 XLS | Reference multipattern
condenser microphone
Scarlett 2i2 | Focusrite
I would like to ask two questions (given the above specs and presuming I have mic positioning, room acoustics etc right):
1. Will the quality of an unedited vocal recording recorded (and exported as a Wav file) in Protools or Ableton, be better than the same done in Audacity?
2. Will the process of exporting a recording from one program (Audacity) as a Wav and importing into Protools for mixing, cause any deterioration to the
quality of the recording? In other words, would it be better to do recording and mixing in one program (obviously Protools) because exporting from
one program and importing into another will cause some deterioration to the vocal track?
Obviously my only concern here is whether this method will affect the quality of the final product once it has been mixed and mastered. I'm hoping to get a high quality result on a lower budget. Thanks!
I'm using a relatively high end Mic (approx US $1200) the AKG C414 XLS Studio Multipattern Condenser Microphone and the basic but adequate Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 USB audio interface. I'm going to hire out a studio room to record the vocals.
C414 XLS | Reference multipattern
condenser microphone
Scarlett 2i2 | Focusrite
I would like to ask two questions (given the above specs and presuming I have mic positioning, room acoustics etc right):
1. Will the quality of an unedited vocal recording recorded (and exported as a Wav file) in Protools or Ableton, be better than the same done in Audacity?
2. Will the process of exporting a recording from one program (Audacity) as a Wav and importing into Protools for mixing, cause any deterioration to the
quality of the recording? In other words, would it be better to do recording and mixing in one program (obviously Protools) because exporting from
one program and importing into another will cause some deterioration to the vocal track?
Obviously my only concern here is whether this method will affect the quality of the final product once it has been mixed and mastered. I'm hoping to get a high quality result on a lower budget. Thanks!