Thanks,
I was hoping to avoid an external mixer/equilizer since I would
like to make this system portable. I should have mentioned this in
my original post. Maybe I should just get a mini-disk for
portability and do as you suggest for the rest.
sox sounds perfect. I am glad there is a command line option to do
this.
Is there a mic recording card available which could allow quality
recording directly to my laptop?
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 12:20:44AM -0600, Jacob Anawalt wrote:
> Michael West wrote:
>
> >I would like to record single track audio to my computer. I do not need
> >to sync to video, I have little interest in editing. However, I would
> >like high quality recordings. What do I need from a software/hardware
> >side to
> >record org-vorbis or wav files from a high quality microphone?
> >
> >
> >
> Since you said simple, here is the simple system I've used for recording
> from the line-out of my mini-disc player of recordings I've made or of
> other audio I want a digital copy for portability.
>
> Hook the line-out of the source device to the 1/8" line-in of your PC
> sound card. (Unless you have a better PC sound in option.) Use rec (from
> the sox package) specifying the data size, output file, format (WAV),
> and the sampling rate you want. Encode the WAV file to ogg-vorbis format.
>
> I noticed that sox (at least the version in Sid) has ogg support. Maybe
> you could record right to vorbis if you have a fast enough computer.
> It's worth giving a try, since the WAV files will be quite large.
>
> Recording a tape of Let Sleeping Vet's Lie (audiobook) to ogg to listen
> to from my computer instead of my tape deck later:
>
> rec -V -c 1 -s w -r 44100 lsvl-2.wav
> oggenc -b 8 lsvl-2.wav
>
> Sox is quite flexible. The manual might be a bit of a read and
> disqualify itself on the 'simple to use' grounds, but it's a 'simple
> system' of command-line recording that I quite like.
>
> Jacob
>
> P.s. Don't make the common mistake of recording by hooking to the mic
> jack on your sound card. Most consumer grade sound cards don't do a very
> good job of recording off of the mic, and even if they would people
> often give them the wrong type of input since they are made for a
> _microphone_ and not the output of say your headphone jack on your mp3
> player. The best recordings will be line out to line in, and if needs be
> use an external mixer/equalizer's line out.
>
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