RE: [linux-audio-user] Re: [ardour-users] more music with Ardour - Linux-audio-user

17 Nov 2004

...
  Ok, I can't
help myself. I'm throwing in a song as well. This song is from a 10 song recording
project I just finished, all origional stuff. CD is comming out in the very near future.
All editing/mixing/mastering/FX done using a linux box and OSS. Enjoy.

http://students.jbu.edu/martinr/LAU_demo.ogg

 Outstanding ! Excellent recording, good song, very engaging singer... 
loved the breakout near the end, made this gloomy Ohio morning a finer 
day... :)

Can you tell us more about how you did this, what software, hardware, et 
cetera ?

Best,

dp 
Ok, The recording part was done in a recital hall. (The noise floor from the ventalation
system was awful) I used mics from a collection of very nice condenser mics, did a very
small amount of adjusting things like eq, downward expansion, hormonic generator etc.
before sending to ADAT tape. At that time I wasn't comfortable with recording directly
to Ardour, it was still too buggy and I was afraid I might loose things, and be totally
screwed. Ardour is getting to the point where I might use it to record directly onto
harddrive in the future.

...
 From there on everthing was on the computer. I dumped
to computer via ADAT connection on my RME9632 PAD. I edited things with Audacity. (For
instance, on two songs the bass timing was off and I had to chop it up note by note,
adjust the timings, and stich it all back together seamlessly. yuck.) I did some filtering
of the room noise on tracks with Gnome Wave Cleaner, a very buggy program that works well
when it works. >From there I mixed using Ardour, using various LADSPA plugins for
inserts when needed, and mastered with Jamin. 
BTW: I did the album art on Linux too. Mostly Gimp, but also a little bit of Inkscape and
Scribus.

-Reuben