Depending on how serious you are about producing music, you may need to invest in a few external storage drives. You should bear in mind that high bit-depth recordings take up a lot of space on your computer. This results in a cleaner recording, and no “fuzzy” noises.

Recording at a higher bit-depth means less noise will be introduced when you make gain adjustments.

The greater your bit-depth is when recording, the more resolution you have to edit with in post production. Learn more: Why does my microphone sound bad? Most DAWs let you cut and splice sections of different takes together, so if one vocal take for the first verse of your song was great, but a different vocal take for the second verse was better, you can splice the two together into your final edit.

Imperfections that are easy to fix include a minor amount of plosives and fricatives, few sibilant sounds (“ sh” and “ z“), and a small amount of ambient room noise. Quite the contrary: there are plenty of fixable imperfections that take just moments to clean up with software. Now, this doesn’t mean your recording has to be perfect.

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