On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 13:40, Ben Edwards (lists) wrote: > I am helping at a Community Centre in Bristol, UK which is using Free > Software for everything (http://3ca.org.uk). Last weekend I > successfully managed to record 3.5 hours of live music using Adacity and > create a .ogg. I have never done anything like this before and am not a > sound engineer or musician. I am particularly impressed because I only > started looking for the software 3 hours before the doors opened. > > Anyway this has sent me on a mad journey this week which has involved > building ardour/jack and jamin from source. I've never built anything > from source before. I am going to attempt to record another gig in a > couple of weeks using this combination. Anyway... > > Firstly was wondering if there are any introduction texts for audio > mixing/mastering on the web anywhare, not nesseseraly related to this > software as I am a total beginner and want to understand the basics. > Here's a good one: http://www.tcelectronic.com/media/bobkatz.pdf Here's another good one on why louder is not always better: http://www.prorec.com/prorec/articles.nsf/articles/8A133F52D0FD71AB86256C2E005DAF1C Then there's Ron Parker's response to Rip Rowan (above link): http://jamin.sourceforge.net/Loudness/loudness.html There's a ton of stuff out there. Just google for audio mastering. > Secondly was wondering if there was any way of using audacity/jamin > together. Idealy I want to use ardour/jamin but audacity is a lot > simpler and is a good fallback. > Not until Audacity becomes JACK enabled. Jan
