I’m not the most technologically minded o people, and it’s hard to get a clear answer in a single place – how does someone connect guitars/bass to a computer to record? And then where do things like DSPs and plugins come in?
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So sound is a wave, right? This wave gets converted to electrocity, so that the electric level (voltage) is higher when loud and lower when quiet (so still a wave, but not in the air, but in the electric current). This gets connected to the computer, and the computer measures the voltage level coming in very often (48,000 Hz for example, so 40,000 times per second) and notes down that value – now it’s recorded.
This would only give back loud /quite when played back, so a lot of frequencies (high pitch to low pitch) are recorded at the same time each measurement. Now you have what’s essentially a multidimensional wave, and that will allow you to reproduce the sound perfectly enough.
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