Re: [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. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user(a)lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-audio-user