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From: "John W. Sawyer"
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 13:21:54 -0400
Subject: Re: recording

> Due to a a crash of my smaller hard disk and my subsequent upgrade I find

> myself with an abundance of storage capacity. I'm very intriguued by
> recording on disk. Anyone know of any faq's or have any personal
> experiences with this? I've already done bunches of harp samples that
> piqued my interest but now I'm really looking for software to refine the
> whole process. Win95 or Linux. fjm

A coworker of mine is in a progressive rock band which has its own studio,
financed by the proceeds from the band's first two CD's. The advance on
their upcoming third one has enabled them to purchase the state of the art
in record-to-disk technology. What that translates to is a majorly
powerful Macintosh and accompanying software along with several 4G hard
drives.

I've done some recording to disk on my lowly Pentium PC with shareware
software which is readily available for Win95/NT. It'll get the job done,
but forget multi-tracking in any real sense of the term. If I want to
layer tracks, I have to record on the computer, play it back and mix the
new stuff onto a tape deck, then keep going back and forth like that until
all the layers are in place. After a couple of passes back and forth there
is the inevitable degradation in sound quality, but not quite as bad as
going from tape to tape.

As far as disk space requirements, if you record at the highest fidelity in
stereo, you're looking at 10MB per minute of music, roughly. By going
8-bit mono at 11KHz, you can get upwards of 6-7 minutes of music into 10MB.

Bottom line, if you want to do it up right, get out the checkbook (the
really big one) and scrap your PC. :-) If you just want to mess with it,
get a copy of GoldWave (shareware), plug your mic or mixer into the Line In
jack on your PC's sound card, and have at it. The cut I did for Harp-L II
(Help Me) was originally cut on tape, but then recorded onto my PC for
transporting to Mic'l via FTP. The other cut (Ballgame) was recorded
directly to the PC via a mic into the sound card. I believe both are 8-bit
mono, 11KHz. The sound quality isn't awful, but certainly not studio
quality, either.

If that's more than you wanted to know, sorry. If you have specific
questions, fire away. Hope this helps in any case.

Chon
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