Introduction Today home recording is an exploding hobby around the world for multiple reasons. Equipment is affordable, gear is cheap, and the price of recording equipment has gone down (wait ... that's really just one reason). The fact that recording equipment has entered an affordable range is the one and only reason that home recording has grown in popularity as a hobby in the last 20 years. Recording used to be only available, in good quality, through high-end expensive recording studios. Thirty years ago rates were usually at least $60 per hour, whether you were recording an album or archiving your 80- year-old father's war stories for posterity's sake. Then in 1991 the ADAT, an eight-channel digital recorder in the range of $3000, was