Live Computer Recording

Prairieboy

Prairieboy

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Well I have an upcomming Doc that involes some live music. I would really like to record the music to my laptop. I guess the other option is renting a minidic recorder or DAT. But I have the laptop. It will be a controlled enviroment! So the question I have is this a decent idea, and how do I get balanced inputs into it?
Thanks a bunch.
 
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XLR into your DVX, then firewire to the laptop? I really have no idea. I'm talking out of my ass here. :P
 
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I do not want to be attatched to my DVX, plus that will be recording other audio.
Unfortunately my ibook does not have a PCMCIA slot. I need something that would be either firewire or USB.
Thanks again.
 
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check out the metacorder. It is software that runs on a mac that is designed for production sound. It's very cool. It sells for around $1600.

-Dave
 
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M-audio FW-410

Tascam FW 1080 (not entirely sure of model number. 8-14 channel firewire mixer. around $1100)
 
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Beware the FW410 on a mac... Great unit, but M-Audio's Mac drivers suck. Latency is too high...
 
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..the FW410 on a PC is a pretty nice little hamburger. i like it for its portability. and it integrates well with other ASIO (and ASIO2) cards without conflict. M-Audios mic pres on it (and other similar units) are pretty nice.. they're not giant pro tools rig nice, but they are very nice for the price. good stuffs.
 
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Neil, you're making me hungry here in the audio forum. Your references to hamburgers and offers of fries with your links has to stop. :D
 
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[quote author=Neil R. link=board=audio;num=1105992480;start=0#12 date=01/18/05 at 11:40:30] ..the FW410 on a PC is a pretty nice little hamburger. i like it for its portability. and it integrates well with other ASIO (and ASIO2) cards without conflict. M-Audios mic pres on it (and other similar units) are pretty nice.. they're not giant pro tools rig nice, but they are very nice for the price. good stuffs.[/quote]


I use it for most of my on set audio. Just bought a Pelican 1400 for it.
 
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[quote author=Terry_Lasater link=board=audio;num=1105992480;start=0#13 date=01/19/05 at 22:09:06]Neil, you're making me hungry here in the audio forum. Your references to hamburgers and offers of fries with your links has to stop. :D[/quote]


I make killer home made french fries. ;D
 
Easy cheap way:
Just run out of the mixing board straight into your iBook's line-in or mic-in with an RCA-to-mini connection and hit record on a simple audio program. Much easier especillay because the sound will be mixed already. It will just get you stereo recordings

Expensive Multitrack:
I recorded a live concert with 8 cameras and the audio crew recorded the entire thing into a pro-tools rig (2 of them I think, as a backup). Then they mixed the whole show and passed me the files later.

The biggest problem we had was we didn't have a way of synching our cameras, no timecode, so I had an ingenious idea. Before the concert we had someone on go up on stage and shoot a camera with a flash. All 8 cameras recorded it and we were able to synch all of the cameras together off of the flash. We synched up the cameras to the sound by a hand clap (by the same person) then we just never stopped recording. And then teh camera batteries died!!!! ha ha ha.
 
Some info from the trenches:

We recently started running a M-Audio FW-410 into a PC laptop WHILE running DVRack to the same laptop. Yes, you have to press "record" in two different locations, but you get some closely-synched audio (a few seconds off) plus now you have up to 4 inputs.

On the Mac side, the folks recommending FW-1884 (that's the big daddy of FW interfaces, IMO, I LOVE mine) and Mackie Onyx series are suggesting mixing boards that do FW audio out: definitely top quality audio, but not very portable (esp the FW-1884!).

I'd recommend the MOTU Traveler if you have the $$, that would be THE way to do it, frankly.
 
..yeah all pends on whether you need mutitrack ability or just a couple of channels running in. the 410 is cool for stright digital stuffs .. and pickle with cheese. but youd want to up the ante if your doing live band recording to something more multitrack capeable. like a swiss patty melt with extra onions and some saucey lemons on the side with a fruitcake and some raost smelt. and red herring.

...tomato paste


..licorice
 
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