RE: [OT] - capture sound to MP3 ?

["Alex Monaghan" <ha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks,

I have a PC is bits which I'm going to hook up to the mixing desk this
weekend. The standalone recorder is nice in theory, however it only needs
the preacher to move away for a few seconds and you could loose something
vital from the address, or even worse they could not switch it on and you'd
never know until the end (at least if they don't turn on the radio mic you
can wave at them or someone from the congregation will shout can't hear you
!)

If it works fine, then we'll approach the treasurer for funding for a
proper
PC and decent sound card.

Alex

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Clark Guy [mailto:guy.clark@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 5:50 PM
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] - capture sound to MP3 ?
>
> HI, Alex!
>
> I'm a bit behind in my reading, so I don't know if anyone
> else replied to this (none in the next half dozen posts,
> anyway!)  Many MP3 players also incorporate voice recorders
> in them.  My Creative Labs Muvo certainly does, and this
> provides a quick and dirty way to record voices and get them
> into a computer.
>
> The Muvo has a USB link, and looks like a disk drive to the
> computer.  It's also a rather small device, hardly bigger
> than a stack of two dozen business cards (if that!)  The MP3
> player/recorder could either be placed on the podium, or in
> the pocket of the speaker, and let run.  Mine has 256Mb of
> storage capacity which translates to about 18 hours !!! Of
> recording time!
> Audio quality is lousy in this mode for music, but perfectly
> adequate for speech.
>
> I used the Muvo in the pocket technique while conversing with
> my (now) late dad during his last few months, and the sound
> quality is virtually as good as the old open reel recordings
> he used to make of family gatherings (except for music, however).
>
> They're also pretty cheap these days.
>
> Otherwise, you might be able to make adequate recordings via
> the line input on the sound card that likely is in your
> computer.  Patch into the churches sound system, and use any
> number of free/cheap audio recording/editing programs.  (I'd
> probably use High Criteria Software's Total Recorder program,
> because it's good, cheap, able to record at a specific time
> for a specific amount of time, and save the result as
> anything from a wave file to MP3s (you have to download a
> copy of the MP3 codecs like the Lame encoder or the Blade
> encoder to do MP3s).  I wouldn't record high quality audio
> using the internal sound card, but again, for voice and
> perhaps general music, it might be adequate.
>