26 Feb
2004
26 Feb
'04
1:39 p.m.
Hello all,
I've just uploaded a new track here:
http://x-11.info/download.html
Recorded with Audacity by me, mixed with Ardour and mastered with
Jamin by Ron Parker. I know it's got plenty of mistakes in, but we're
getting better!
Cheers
Daniel
27 Feb
27 Feb
8:07 p.m.
daniel(a)mondodesigno.com wrote:
I've just uploaded a new track here:
http://x-11.info/download.html
Recorded with Audacity by me, mixed with Ardour and mastered with
Jamin by Ron Parker. I know it's got plenty of mistakes in, but we're
getting better!
Hey, good (all around) recording... Just one question... When you say
"Recorded with Audacity by me, mixed with Ardour and mastered with
Jamin", are you saying that you recorded the actual tracks in some
program/hardware (other) than Ardour and just used Ardour to mix them?
I'm hoping this was a "linux only" recording. It's something that you
can be proud of as far as show people what one can do with a linux audio
studio.
I also like the "musical content". In other words, good song... Just one
comment about the mix... I was surprised at the (one) female vocal that
was panned "hard right" (all the way to the right). Because the rest of
the mix is pretty good.
It's good the hear a natural sounding recording with live sounding
instruments (as opposed to my approach of relying on soft synths).
I've been writing this while listing (to save time). But now I realize
I'm going to keep listing...
Rocco
28 Feb
28 Feb
6:42 a.m.
On Friday 27 February 2004 19:51, LinuxMedia wrote:
daniel(a)mondodesigno.com wrote:
You are using audacity without linux? I have all the mentioned apps installed
on my gentoo-box, compiled from source, so they are definitly free-apps...
But I believe the microphones where not linux ;-)
Arnold
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Recorded with Audacity by me, mixed with Ardour
and mastered with
Jamin by Ron Parker. I know it's got plenty of mistakes in, but we're
getting better!
Hey, good (all around) recording... Just one question... When you
say
"Recorded with Audacity by me, mixed with Ardour and mastered with
Jamin", are you saying that you recorded the actual tracks in some
program/hardware (other) than Ardour and just used Ardour to mix them?
I'm hoping this was a "linux only" recording. It's something that you
can be proud of as far as show people what one can do with a linux audio
studio.
1 Mar
1 Mar
9:52 a.m.
You are using audacity without linux?
A few years ago, getting reliable full duplex recording on Linux was
difficult, so the first libre audio software I used for recording was
indeed Audacity on Windows 98. But for the last year or two we have
been using Audacity only on Linux. Before that I used Cool Edit and
Cakewalk, and had a few tries on Cubase but never ran it myself.
There were also a few shareware music apps for Windows, like the
Hammerhead (?) drum machine that I liked - now Hydrogen is better
though.
But I believe the microphones where not linux ;-)
You're right - they were pure analogue!
Cheers
Daniel
9:45 a.m.
When you
say "Recorded with Audacity by me, mixed with Ardour and mastered
with Jamin", are you saying that you recorded the actual tracks in
some program/hardware (other) than Ardour and just used Ardour to
mix them?
Yes - they were recorded using an 8 buss analogue mixer and M Audio
Delta 1010 direct to a Linux Mandrake box running Audacity. Ron opted
to mix the track in Ardour on his machine, so I exported one wav file
per track from Audacity.
Just one comment about the mix... I was surprised at
the (one)
female vocal that was panned "hard right" (all the way to the
right).
It's hard to get vocal choruses right - Ron actually did another mix
after this one with louder drums and the vocal sounds nearer the
centre of the stereo image, but the limiting on the second attempt
was rather harsh. (We'd been discussing the way pop records manage to
achieve such high average amplitude, but on reflection I'd prefer to
sacrifice some loudness for the sake of dynamics and overall
smoothness.)
It's good the hear a natural sounding recording
with live sounding
instruments (as opposed to my approach of relying on soft synths).
Thanks! If I've learnt anything from trying to record real
instruments, it's that it's a lot easier to get it wrong than with
synthesised instruments. Since this recording was made, I have been
building up a better collection of microphones and have just arranged
to buy a bass preamp, which should all help.
Cheers
Daniel
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