Experience Technical Difficulties

My favorite form of media has always been music. I originally first started playing music around the 2^nd grade. My mother told me if I were to start playing music that I would have to start with piano because it’s the basis of all musical instruments. Deep down, I know all I really wanted to do was play electric guitar, but that wasn’t an option during the time.

As time went on my music progressed. I moved on from piano and started playing acoustic guitar, electric guitar and bass. After playing for many years, I really started to get into recording my own music. I took the time and figured out that it was a little more complicated than I thought. I had to get a condenser mic, which I found to be pretty expensive. Then I found out that in order to power a condenser mic you need an external power source called “phantom power.” Now, in order for you to record digitally you need an M-Audio box with a copy of pro tools in order to record and edit your own music.

I’ve found that whenever I’m recording music something always goes wrong! My mic doesn’t work, I can’t find the key for pro tools, my receiver head phone jack won’t work, or half my necessary cords are missing. I’m so tired of dealing with so many different things just so I can record music.

So, the other day I had my friend who plays drums over and I had another friend who brought over a synthesizer. I thought it would have been an awesome time to record some stuff but I found that I had blown out my mic once again and would have to send it back to be fixed. However, instead of just not recording anything I decided that I would use my friend’s Nano to capture the media experience. I was happy to find that the quality wasn’t that bad. It started to make me think that maybe one day I could even get a studio sound simply from a small device like a Nano. What if Nanos in the future had tiny condenser mics in them with HD video recording?