17 Jul
2007
17 Jul
'07
9:03 p.m.
I'm in the middle of building a rig for live location recording.
My recommendations are:
- You might want a RAID array if you plan on doing live multitracking
with a lot of channels. If you are just placing a pair of your own
condenser mics out to pick up the PA mix then that's not as important.
- Stay the hell away from USB, and be suspicious about firewire units.
Use PCI, or even better PCIe interfaces. I like (and use) RME's PCI(e)
based stuff. M-audio is good too.
- If you're going to be using the same mics as the house mix, get a
hard split and mount it on the back of your recording rig. Live
locations don't always have nice snake heads with splits built into
them and taking sends from a house or monitor console can introduce
all kinds of problems.
- Use external pre-amps and AD converters (i.e. don't try to get a
sound card that does everything. they suck)
- If you plan on using Linux, do your homework first on how well the
hardware is supported.
-Use Ardour, not Audacity
Of course, all this is expensive and assumes you are doing this for
production work and not just as a hobby...
-Reuben
On 7/17/07, Russell Button <russ(a)button.com> wrote:
Hi Ken!
I'm going to have to pass. USB 1.x just isn't going to cut it for 24
bit, 96 kHz, live location recording. As you well know, a lot of
products get built before they should because of issues like this.
Reminds me of the NeXT computer, which probably would have been great on
a 300 Mhz Pentium, but not a Motorola 68030 processor.
Coolness,
Russ
Ken Restivo wrote:
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Loki Davison wrote:
I have an old M-Audio Audiophile USB for sale. Has stereo RCA connectors in and out, line
in, and requires a wall-wart. It also has SPDIF in/out which I haven't tried to use.
- -ken
> Russ Button wrote:
>
>> I'm looking to move into using Linux as my music platform for live
>> location recording.
>>
I'm very happy with my echo
interface and know some of the nice ones can be found on ebay that use
cardbus and pci if you want to use it at home too. I.e Mona.
http://www.echoaudio.com/Products/Discontinued/Mona/index.php
Okee Doki Loki!
I'll bet nobody's ever said that to you before...
But another question now comes to mind. Do you use this Mona interface
with your Linux box? If so, do you use the Windows driver for the cardbus
card with ndiswrapper or something?
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