Re: [LAU] newbie to Linux audio

On 7/18/07, Russ Button <russ@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
> A lot of good recommendations!
>
> I am doing this on a serious amateur basis, not a production
> professional basis. And I'm not recording complex situations either,
> but rather am looking to record live chamber music. I've got a brass
> quintet these days and my wife plays with a string quartet. She's the
> professional musician in the family. I'm also in the Union (Local 6),
> but that's so I can work the Chinese funerals in San Francisco.
>
> So I figure to just put up a couple of good condenser mikes in an ORTF
> configuration, in just the right spot in the hall, and do it that way.
> No PA systems in sight. I used to use a Revox A77 open reel machine for
> this sort of thing years ago and got pretty decent results. It would be
> nice to be able to add in another couple of mikes later to experiment
> with other mike techniques, but I doubt I'll ever need more than 4 mikes
> tops.
>
> I saw a friend using a mike preamp feeding into some sort of USB audio
> interface, feeding into a laptop at a Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
> concert in Berkeley a few months ago. I began figuring it was time to
> get back into it, especially now that the wife and I are both playing
> chamber music again.
>
> I just scored a Behringer tube mike preamp today off of EBay, so for
> right now, I just need something pretty simple.
>
> I want to do 24 bit, 96 kHz recording and then produce DVD-audio discs
> for playback on my hi-end audiophile system at home.
>
> I'm not familiar with Audour, but I'll look into it!
>
> Russ

I wouldn't focus too much on 96kHz. See all the discussions previously
on LAD/LAU about it. If your using Behringer tube mics... well, i'd
just skip on using them.

Loki
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Received on Wed Jul 18 08:15:02 2007