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== Better Tools for Advanced Recording ==
:More advanced recording with Audacity (such as recording musical instruments and using professional-grade microphones) requires a better input recording device. For example, if the simple WebCam in the computer lab was used to record musical instrument and vocals, a great deal of audio quality would be lost.
:One affordable solution is to use USB recording studio devices.
Currently, the Computer Lab does not have such a device, but a request will be made in the future for such a device.
:On the other hand, in the meantime, there are at least 2 current members of the Westminster United Church congregation that own these types of devices:
::* '''Maudio Fast Track Pro''' (link to picture: [http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/FastTrackPro.html click here])::* '''Tascam US-122 Audio/MIDI USB device ''' (link to picture: [http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/oct03/articles/tascamus122.htm click here]).
:Although both of these devices work in the lab, the Maudio USB devices are preferred because they work with Linux systems without complex tweaking (i.e. they work '''"out of the box"''').
:'''Since this author owns the Tascam US-122 USB device, they will be using that device throughout the remainder of this tutorial...'''