Audacity ( http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ ) if free multitrack software that works well if your PC is reasonably new. Works for live recording even on older machines, but hangs older machines if you try to multitrack with it.
A $15 computer mic will do an amazingly good job for the price. But better to get a pro mic and preamp and send the signal to the computer's line-in. I like the Shure SM-57 or SM=58 for recording instruments, but others like a high-end condenser (which reproduces high frequencies better). Best is to use a preamp with a digitizer builtin (e.g. DBX 360) and send to the SP/DIF in on your high-end sound card. (This assumes, of course, that you have a high end sound card.) The more expensive methods will get you a cleaner recording of course, but any will sound pretty good - it's a matter of where the dimishing returns cut off is for you. > Dear All, > > Sorry to bother you with this but I can't seem to access old archives > which I know contain suggestions: > > I'm interested in exploring the possibility of using a PC to make good > quality lute recordings and want to know what kind of mic to use and > which (cheap or free) software for editing, etc. All suggestions welcome. > > Thanks, > > Martin > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > -- http://DoctorOakroot.com - Rough-edged songs on homemade GIT-tars.
