On 7/18/07, Russ Button <russ@xxxxxxxxxx> 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 _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
