Professional Sound Cards are in the reach of those on low budgets, you
just have to do your homework.
My Fastrak Mixer for example cost me less than $100.00 and I got
Protools Audio Studio bundled with this, the Protools Audio Studio
software is now supposed to be accessible.
Imic sound devices are no good if you're planning to record guitar or
digital instruments, they're fine! if you want to record audio but they
don't support higher sampling rates which are used professionally, they
don't have digital inputs which a lot of instruments use so in short
we're talking 2 seprate ball games here.
On 24/11/2011 5:14 AM, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith wrote:
Hello Lew
To be honest I don't think it's reasonable to expect somebody on a low budget
to splash out on an external sound card of professional quality. Besides which,
you only have the option of USB devices with the Mac unless you're using a Mac
Pro, of course.
If you are going to go for an external device though, I would suggest that
something like the Griffin iMic would be perfectly adequate for most home
users. We actually have 4 of those things now, 2 of the older type and 2 quite
new ones. The quality of those things is pretty amazing for what they are. OK,
it's not studio or professional quality. But I am sure you're very well aware
of the need to cost what you're doing and do it as cheaply as you can whilst
maximising the functionality of what you are able to acquire within your budget.
I've heard some pretty decent recordings, some of them made by Dane, funnily
enough, and they were made using a Mac's line output I believe. I'm not
crawling, that's not my thing. Just stating fact. It's possible to obtain some
more than acceptable quality if you think hard about the location and the
proximity to other equipment of your microphone, for instance. I've also heard
some pretty dreadful recordings made using the Mac's internal microphone. I can
only suppose that they were made underneath fans, in the boot of a car, or
something like that; because actually, even the internal microphone of an iMac
or a MacBook can produce some pretty reasonable quality output.
As for Reaper I really must give that a go with VoiceOver. I keep hearing about
ProTools. What kind of price are we talking about here, and where can it be
bought from?
Lynne
On 23 Nov 2011, at 09:29, Mr. L. Alexander wrote:
Regarding the use of the line in source of your mac, As reliable as this input
is, I would consider the use of an external soundcard with 1/4in cables
(standard jack) or XLR for microphone use. you get a better audio support
range.
Reaper is a pretty decent package and is good for someone who can't find
something accessible on a budget.
it is worth mentioning that AVID ProTools is now accessible for the most part
for blind users. Since V9.0, there has been a great improvement into the use of
voiceover intergration. now that V10.0 has come out, things are looking a lot
better. OK this means buying both ProTools and a suitable hardware interface,
however if you're doing this to make good money or you're a student a ta music
college and you need access to ProTools, then this is the way to go.
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