Thanks, guys for your advise and opinion.   I appreciate your help.  Someone at the party had a linux laptop and we hooked it up to an Evolution MK-461C keyboard that was laying around.   I wasn’t going to put this on the web, because the sound quality isn’t as good, but I was going to ask if you could recognize this as being either the Bristol emulation or the Connie emulation you were talking about…

You may need to turn it up to be able to hear it.    Anyway, if you happen to know if this is Bristol or Connie it may help to know which one it was.   I’m pretty sure it wasn’t the B4 emulation.

Here’s the link:

http://www.garageband.com/song?|pe1|S8LTM0LdsaSgZ1C1Ymk

Which emulation is your guess?   Just like the last one, you may need to download the MP3, because the sound may skip when played with the GarageBand player (which requires Flash v.6 or better).

-Mike Mazarick

From: Mike Mazarick [mailto:mazarick@bellsouth.net]
Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2009 1:32 AM
To: linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org
Subject: [LAU] My first Linux audio recording...

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.

Here is the link:

http://www.garageband.com/song?|pe1|S8LTM0LdsaSgZ1GxZ2E

(you may want to just download the MP3, because it seems like it skips a lot when I try to play it from GarageBand).

I’d be interested in hearing opinions from any of the people on this list about how you think it sounds.

-Mike Mazarick

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.