[LAU] My first Linux audio recording...

[Ken Restivo]

On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 01:32:17AM -0400, Mike Mazarick wrote:
> 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.

FREAKING AWESOME!

Great playing. I *love* the latin choruses. Great arrangement, great playing.

Downloading part 2 now. Keep it coming!

-ken