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CHAPTER IV
RECORDING NOTES
The first thing to fix in mind with regard to the procedure of home recording is that perfectly satisfactory records can be made. This statement may seem somewhat extraordinary, but, consider the parallel case of the camera. How many people having no previous experience in photography would take a camera and produce excellent results straight away? Certainly this might be done with the modern trouble-free systems, but even with these first attempts are likely to be disastrous. But the purchaser of a camera does not despair because he or she knows that other people experience no trouble and that photography in general has been accepted. With home recording it is different, since it has not yet attained the popularity of the camera. The first attempts at home recording are likely to be disappointing unless one is either exceptionally fortunate or has expended a considerable sum in obtaining first-class equipment. By this we do not infer that good results can be obtained only by the expenditure of a large amount of cash . What we do say, however, is that with most of the cheaper recording equipments a certain amount of experimental work must be done at first.
Choice of Equipment. The amateur contemplating home recording is faced with a fairly wide market in the choice of equipment, and one which incidentally is widening as more and more firms develop apparatus. What is the best type of equipment to purchase !
In the first place one's iequirement must be decided. If one merely wishes to obtain a novelty for use at parties then one of the cheaper type of attachments will serve admirably. For a few shillings an attachment may be had which will fit to a portable gramophone, and with care will produce reasonable results. But for serious work in which an endeavour is made to equal the quality of standard