[LAU] My first Linux audio recording...

[Ricardus Vincente]

On Sat, 2009-06-27 at 01:32 -0400, Mike Mazarick wrote:

  Are you being serious?

> Well, last May 17 I had some friends over to play some music in the
> room above my garage.   I had fixed the room up to look like a bar.
> Suddenly, I remembered that I had an old Radio Shack boom box in one
> of my closets with some built in microphones that went straight to the
> cassette tape.   I looked around and tried to find a chromium tape,
> but since I couldn’t find one, I had to settle for the dolby noise
> reduction that was build into the tape deck.   Last week I had
> remembered the tape and used my old computer with a SoundBlaster card,
> so I had the idea of putting the analog audio on a computer.   The old
> computer uses a Celeron processor with about 125 mb of memory – it had
> linux on it so it would run at all.   I think it was something like
> RedHat 6.X or 7.X, but I’m not sure.   In searching thru the
> applications that might have something to do with sound, I found one
> called ‘Audacity’, which I could use to take the analog tape outputs
> and put them in the computer.   It pretty much filled up the hard
> drive.  I was really happy to see that it seemed to have worked, so I
> made an MP3 so I could put it on the web (plus, I needed the space
> back on my hard drive).   Since it was recorded above my garage, I
> decided to put it on garageband.com.
> 
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> Here is the link:
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> http://www.garageband.com/song?|pe1|S8LTM0LdsaSgZ1GxZ2E
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> (you may want to just download the MP3, because it seems like it skips
> a lot when I try to play it from GarageBand).
> 
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> I’d be interested in hearing opinions from any of the people on this
> list about how you think it sounds.
> 
>  
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> -Mike Mazarick
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> PS – Do I remember correctly that Paul Hindemith was a bebop jazz
> player?   I can’t remember if he played sax or guitar….   I was
> surprised he stopped by and said “Hello”.   I thought he had died on
> the bandstand of a heart attack while on a gig a long time ago.
> 
> 
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