On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 01:38:03PM -0500, KS wrote: > Hi all, > > We are planning to have a setup so that we can record the upcoming talks > (happening every weekend for several weekends at a stretch). The > equipment which is already there comprises of 4 microphones, a mixer > (with 12 inputs I think) and an amplifier for the speakers. > I record all the sermons preached at my church onto my laptop. I just your the standard (3/16" I think) audio line in using a Y-cable that has two RCA plugs on one side and the small composite plug on the other. The RCA plugs just plug into some line out ports on the church sound board.
> The following are the questions which come to mind for the hardware: > 1. What kind of processing power do we need? Would a 2.0GHz PIV based > machine be OK? I used a PIII-700 for a couple of years (recently replaced with a macbook). > 2. RAM is 512MB currently. Would it be enough? Plenty. I did it with only 256MB and my current machine has 512MB. > 3. What kind of sound card would be a good choice? The ultimate > objective being to archive the audio as mp3/ogg. I had a Toshiba Satellite 2805-S401, which had some kind of sound card that used the ymfpci, IIRC, driver. The quality was fine since it was mostly speech. The chior's singing could have come out better, but much of that had to do with the church's old sound system. > 4. Should the audio be captured from the mixer or from the amplifier? I always record at the output from the sound board. > > Software wise: which applications are there which can help in recording > the audio? For splitting/editing the audio I think Audacity is a good > candidate. Are there others of the same kind? > I use Audacity for everthing. I record, export to WAV for burning to CD and then convert the WAV to OGG for upload to the WWW. I don't use Audacity's built in OGG export since doesn't give me sufficient control over the export quality (I am willing to sacrifice quality for smaller files that people on dialup can download). I certainly don't use MP3 since they are huge (up to 40%) larger than a comparable OGG file. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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