I use timemachine live recording, any number of channels from 2 to 8. It has only one control -- record on/off. This makes it fool proof, which is important to me when I'm recording a live show. I found snd too complicated, and Ardour waaay too complicated for live recording. Perhaps I'm an idiot, but timemachine does all I need.
Then, later, I use Audacity to mix the multitrack recording I've created with timemachine down to a stereo mix. Bill Dudley On 1/3/08, Darrin Goodman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As a bluegrass musician, most all of the music that I am recording is > acoustic. Sometimes I might have a simple microphone plugged into the > sound card on my laptop, and other times I might be using high quality > condenser microphones which are powered by my mixer (the mixer would > then feed to my sound card). > > My needs for audio recording are fairly simple and can be broken into > two categories: (1) I might be recording the band in a live setting > and will use the mixer as my input, and will record a single track > while playing live. (2) I would also like to have the ability to > record multiple tracks (private recording scenario, not a live > performance). For instance, if I am making music by myself, I would > like to record the mandolin, then record the banjo, then record the > guitar, vocals, etc..., and then be able to mix the tracks so that it > sounds like a full band is playing. At most, I would probably only > have 6 or 7 tracks (bass, banjo, mandolin, guitar, fiddle, vocals). > > What I would like to know are these two things: > - is Ardour really all that better (over Audacity) when it comes to > this sort of multi-tracking, or is there another tool that I should > look at? > - is Ardour better for just recording a single live track with a full > band (or would Audacity be a better tool for this use)? So far, I've > had good results with Audacity when recording a single live track, but > have not had that great of results with trying to mix multiple tracks. > > I have looked at Rosegarden and some other tools, but it seems (and > please correct me if I am wrong) that many of the other tools are for > recording midi devices. Jokosher also looks interesting as an audio > recording tool, but I'm not sure if it's there yet. Any thoughts? > > Thank you for your input. > > - Darrin > > -- > Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users > -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
