Klarinet Archive - Posting 001114.txt from 2000/07

From: Oliver Seely <oliver@-----.edu>
Subj: [kl] RE: record yourself
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 22:08:43 -0400

Gotta get my two cents in here. I wouldn't go with the minidisk system
because I think that it has been bypassed by today's technology.

I salivated just thinking about the MD when it first came out, but I
couldn't afford one so I waited around until PCs became fast enough, had
good sound boards and had large enough fixed disk drives to be able to take
a full CD worth of data at the standard sampling speed.

When I do a recording of myself I use the Voyetra Audioview 32 (not the
Voyetra Recording Station). My software is now over 2 years old, so I'm
sure it has been superceded by much neater stuff. I avoided the Voyetra
Recording Station simply because it was too complicated for me. I still
haven't completely figured it out, so my avoidance is not exactly connected
with any software deficiency. The Audioview 32 allows one to see a
sonogram of the recorded file and to do, if one is so inspired, a leetle
bit of cutting and pasting to get rid of those annoying mistakes (!!) by
using subsequently recorded mistake-free fragments.

I start out by defragmenting my fixed disk and I make sure that I have at
least 700 Mbytes available free space. I use my laptop to play the MIDI
accompaniment (my Gateway 2000 isn't fast enough to do that AND to carry
out an analog to digital conversion from my microphone) and feed the audio
through the line input of my mixer. I also feed the microphone output
through the mixer and set my levels to what has worked in the past and then
I do the recording and hope that the telephone doesn't ring (!) The output
of my mixer goes into the line input of my Gateway sound board. Anyway,
once the file(s) have been created, I do whatever cutting and pasting is
necessary to bring my playing skill up to a world class level (!!) and I
always burn an audio CD and then delete the master files (to get rid of the
evidence). From there I can record an audio cassette from the CD (and no
one is the wiser -- ah, there's the rub). I must confess that I've only
done about three sessions in the last year, but I wrote everything down so
that I don't have to start at square one the next time. I love the
technology and it gives me far more flexibility than I would have with MDs.

Oliver

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