[PlanetCCRMA] Audio Recording and Mixing

[Mike Artis]

Thanks for all the information, it is a huge help!  Well on my way now. 

/Mike

On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 16:40, Emiliano Grilli wrote:
> mercoledì, 11 giugno 2003 alle 15:29:12, Mike Artis ha scritto:
> > I am new to audio recording/mixing, but have been using Linux for many
> > years.  I am very interested in using the Planet CCRMA packages to do
> > audio recording and mixing for my band, but am unsure how to go about
> > doing it.
> 
> You have found the best resource available for Linux+Audio.
>  
> > We have 2 electric guitars, an electric bass and drums.  My question is,
> > how is everyone else out there doing this, if anyone is doing this :).
> 
> Jan Depner has a similar setup and has produced very cool tracks with
> ardour: http://myweb.cableone.net/eviltwin69/
> 
> > I was thinking it might be best to go through a mixing board and then
> > into the input on the sound card, but I have no idea about how much is
> > too much for the little input on my card.  Also, since a mixing board
> > will really just mix to one track (I think), it would kind of defeat the
> > purpose of using something like Audacity/Sweep/Ardour to edit and mix
> > the tracks.  My main goal would be to have the ability to record 3-4
> > tracks at once without breaking the bank on an overly expensive sound
> > card.  
> 
> The mixing board is something definitely worth to have, even to record in
> stereo. A good point, if you want to do multi-channel recordings, is a
> mixer with per channel direct-outs, or at least subs, so you can record
> different sources at a time. I have a 10 channel spirit from soundcraft and
> I'm pretty satisfied with it.
> Good supported multi-channel soundcards for Linux are the delta series from
> m-audio (delta44=4IN/4OUT, delta66=4IN/4OUT+digital, delta1010=8IN/8OUT+
> digital) or the terratec EWS88MT (8IN/8OUT+digital). All those souncards
> are based on the same chipset (envy24) and their quality is good. I have a
> staudio DSP2000-CPORT which is similar to the delta1010 but cheaper (I paid
> 399 euro for it).
> However, at Jan's site you will find a good information on soundcards for
> this type of job. Another resource that I've found about building an home
> studio is: http://home.earthlink.net/~rongonz/home_rec/home.html
> 
> Ciao
> 
> > Thanks in advance,
> 
> HTH
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Mike Artis <martis@visi.net>