I've been paring down all the studio gear I accumulated, because most of it is irrelavant, but I do a lot with a 533 PII with an sblive card, once soundfonts are loaded on the card there's no perceptable latency when midi sequncing my own samples, but my next project is a jazz recording with acoustic guitar, flute chromatic harmonica and some electronic backgrounds I plan to generate from csound, before I've been making most of my music with a korg electribe and an asrx sampler recorded and mixed in audacity, but as I learn more about how o use alsa I'm trying to get rid of all my extra hardware. I also do live electronics and actually had my first successful all-linux live show. Previously I did most of my live shows with the music hardware and then just dropped in little bits from the laptop, but in this case I left the other gear at home and just relyed on linux for the whole show, and fortunately I'd spent enough months practicing to pull it off. http://www.brianredfern.org On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Daniel James wrote: > > Actually I think punk sounds better lo-fi > > If your recordings sound too good, then you just come across as an idler with > a rich dad. Or like the Clash after they signed to CBS. No punk credibility, > either way. > > > its a lot better than my old > > punk bands audio-cassette recordings from '91 > > We started out with a Fostex cassette 4 track, and the quality was easily > surpassed by the Turtle Beach Tropez+ and then the cheapo SB Live. The modern > digital multitrackers can do simple edits and effects, but they don't allow > you to load keyboard samples... > > I figure budding musicians will be able to get access to a computer (even if > they don't own it) more easily than they could get hold of dedicated > recording equipment, even if the retail price for a computer is approximately > equivalent. > > > you can do tricks like > > pre-process the vocals through something like a cheap second-hand kaoss > > pad. > > We've got one outboard effects box for the guitarist (since you can't easily > change settings on our computer using your feet) but apart from that, we're > intending to do all processing with LADSPA plugins. > > Cheers > > Daniel >
