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gvdv
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Hi,
A couple of years ago I posted asking about ways to record two vocals and a stereo line in (CD player) simultaneously to GarageBand.
I was asking about this because a friend and I wanted to record a demo for a radio show in which we would be playing music on the spur of the moment (rather than having a set play-list ahead of time), and commenting on it.
At that time, one of the problems with trying to record this way was that my audio interface's (Presonus Firestudio) software mixer was not working. I also encountered a tremendous amount of noise generated by the RCA-to-1/4" adaptors that I was using to plug the CD player into the Firestudio, and this noise alone made plugging the CD player into the Firestudio an unrealistic way of inputing the line signal. A third problem was that trying to use iTunes as a way of cueing the CD took about 1 minute to load a 3 minute song, detracting significantly from the on-the-spur-of-the-moment nature of the way that we intended to record.
My friend and I are now revisiting the idea, but are thinking of recording the radio show in a different way, and we would welcome opinions, suggestions, questions and advice about this.
We still want to have two (separate, independent) vocal tracks, and the stereo line-in, but instead of going through the Firestudio into GarageBand, are now thinking of using a portable digital multi track, and then exporting the results to computer (probably via either USB or SD card).
The recorder doesn't have to be anything fancy; it doesn't have to have many effects - although reverb would be nice - but obviously it does need to be able to:
1. Record 4 tracks simultaneously (with the stereo pair of tracks going into one line input)
2. Because of the above, the recorder needs to have the ability to accept 1/4" and line-in inputs at the same time
3. Be able to export to a computer
I have only done a little research so far, and have not really seen anything that would be allow us to do this easily, but I might be misunderstanding some of the specs of the digital recorders I have read about; the main problem seems to be the inability to simultaneously record to line and 1/4" inputs.
This brings a question to my mind: I suppose that I could forget the need for a line input that records at the same time as the mic. inputs, and instead go out from the CD player (via the stereo RCA's) to two separate 1/4" mic. inputs on the front of the recorder (this would obviously mean that all the inputs - the 2 mic./vocals and stereo CD - would all be recorded into 1/4" inputs, and would all be recorded simultaneously).
My question about this is would this way of recording preserve the stereo signal from the CD player, or would I get two versions of the same mono signal?
Many thanks for any suggestions you can make.
gvdv
A couple of years ago I posted asking about ways to record two vocals and a stereo line in (CD player) simultaneously to GarageBand.
I was asking about this because a friend and I wanted to record a demo for a radio show in which we would be playing music on the spur of the moment (rather than having a set play-list ahead of time), and commenting on it.
At that time, one of the problems with trying to record this way was that my audio interface's (Presonus Firestudio) software mixer was not working. I also encountered a tremendous amount of noise generated by the RCA-to-1/4" adaptors that I was using to plug the CD player into the Firestudio, and this noise alone made plugging the CD player into the Firestudio an unrealistic way of inputing the line signal. A third problem was that trying to use iTunes as a way of cueing the CD took about 1 minute to load a 3 minute song, detracting significantly from the on-the-spur-of-the-moment nature of the way that we intended to record.
My friend and I are now revisiting the idea, but are thinking of recording the radio show in a different way, and we would welcome opinions, suggestions, questions and advice about this.
We still want to have two (separate, independent) vocal tracks, and the stereo line-in, but instead of going through the Firestudio into GarageBand, are now thinking of using a portable digital multi track, and then exporting the results to computer (probably via either USB or SD card).
The recorder doesn't have to be anything fancy; it doesn't have to have many effects - although reverb would be nice - but obviously it does need to be able to:
1. Record 4 tracks simultaneously (with the stereo pair of tracks going into one line input)
2. Because of the above, the recorder needs to have the ability to accept 1/4" and line-in inputs at the same time
3. Be able to export to a computer
I have only done a little research so far, and have not really seen anything that would be allow us to do this easily, but I might be misunderstanding some of the specs of the digital recorders I have read about; the main problem seems to be the inability to simultaneously record to line and 1/4" inputs.
This brings a question to my mind: I suppose that I could forget the need for a line input that records at the same time as the mic. inputs, and instead go out from the CD player (via the stereo RCA's) to two separate 1/4" mic. inputs on the front of the recorder (this would obviously mean that all the inputs - the 2 mic./vocals and stereo CD - would all be recorded into 1/4" inputs, and would all be recorded simultaneously).
My question about this is would this way of recording preserve the stereo signal from the CD player, or would I get two versions of the same mono signal?
Many thanks for any suggestions you can make.
gvdv
