Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 09:21:23 -0800 From: Nathan Kinkade <nkinkade@dsl-only.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: OT: multitrack recording [was: recording audio with SoundBlaster Live...] Message-ID: <20030102172123.GG5327@sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301020859070.19698-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org> References: <3E13D2D0.1080102@mac.com> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301020859070.19698-100000@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org>
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On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 09:06:14AM -0500, John Bleichert wrote: > I do a *lot* of recording with my SBLive! card and FreeBSD. It's all > guitar and drum machine through a 4-track, plugged into my sound card. The > trick with the line-in (at least on my rig) was that the input volume on > that channel was zero by default. I use the 4-track to do a little pre-mix > before recording. > > I found that if I pull up an audio mixer (kmix, since I use KDE) I can > bring the level up on line-in just fine. However, I have found that for > certain tracks the mic input is better, although I have to bring the input > gain down with kmix. Also, if you need to 'clean up' your recordings to > get the 'eggs-frying' noise out of the mix (all my vinyl has it :), > Audacity has great noise filters and it's in the ports collection. > > HTH - JB > > PS: If you want to carry on this discussion and feel it too off-topic, > feel free to contact me off-list. > > # John Bleichert This is off-topic from the original post, but since you mention that you do a lot recording to your SBLive I though I would ask. Is there any good multitrack recording software for FreeBSD. I recently made a little preamp so that I could plug my guitar into the sound card and am looking for multitrack recording software. I have waded through the ports and come across a few possibilities, but each leaves something to be desired. I found ecasound, audacity, and snd. Audacity is just what I am looking for, but v1 doesn't support full duplex on *nix. Apparently v1.1 does, but it is not released as stable yet. ecasound looks powerful, but it would be nice if it had a graphical interface - well, there is one, but it's not very intuitive and the documentation is nonexistent, apparently. snd had an interesting interface, but I can't seem to tell if it was meant to do what I want, or at least I can't coax it to. I just want to make multitrack guitar recordings i.e. record one track and record the next while listening to the first, etc, etc....any ideas? Thanks, Nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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