David Christensen <dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> writes: > On 08/06/17 09:18, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> The cable that made me possible to live record stereo from two mics, without >> mixer nor preamp nor external audio card nor audio interface, is a 3.5mm >> twin-mono-female and a 3.5mm single-stereo-male: the two mics plugged into >> the two mono females and the stereo male plugged into the `mic' input of my >> PC. This cable was solded for me by the owner of the electricity shop near >> my house. > > That is called a stereo break-out cable: > > http://hosatech.com/product/ymm-261/ > > >> To add a third microphone for human voice (the former two are for piano), I >> plan to use a second PC as suggested by Fungi4All. This way I'll continue >> to do without mixer or audio interface, till the moment I'll want to do >> things more professionally. Now, they're just home made records... > > As I understand it, professional digital audio recording gear includes clock > in and clock out connectors. All the devices are linked together with > cables, one device serves as the master clock, and all the other devices are > slaves. > > > Without hardware clock synchronization, the clocks for the various recording > devices will drift ("clock skew") and the recordings will lose time > alignment. One work-around is to record audible synchronizing marks near the > beginning of a take and near the end -- e.g. strike two sticks together, clap > your hands, use a "clicker" device, etc.. Then during editing/ mix-down, use > digital audio workstation software with time-stretch/ time-compression/ > time-alignment features to adjust the individual recordings until all the > synchronizing marks line up exactly.
It seems that Audacity can do that... Rodolfo
