Church sound

[David Miller]

Tim wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 21:27 -0500, David Miller wrote:
>   
>> I see several packages that will record but I don't want to have a
>> 700M file.  Is there a package that will break the recording into,
>> lets say, 10min files and then be able to burn those to CD as audio
>> tracks with zero time between tracks.
>>     
>
> I've used software that can automatically break a large audio file up
> into several smaller ones.  Though I suspect that's not going to work
> well with speech, as it may think momentary pauses in speech are good
> break points, whereas a human might break at more sensible moments
> (change in topics, activities, etc.).
>
> I've used Audacity for live recordings of sound, hitting stop and then
> record between things.  That's one way of doing what you want.
>
> But if you want to pay attention to what you're recording, and not get
> distracted by recording it, then recording it as one slab then editing
> afterwards is the better approach.  Again, Audacity is quite good for
> that task.
>
>   
>> At some point later I would like to get a camera and start doing video
>> recording of the service and place of DVD.
>>     
>
> I'd suggest getting a HDD+DVD recorder, record to hard drive, break the
> recording into chapters after filming, then burn off a DVD.  It's then
> an easy job to replicate that DVD, either burning off another copy from
> the hard drive on the same unit, or copying the DVD on computer.
>
> I've got a Sony RDR-HXD590 HDD+DVD recorder which makes that sort of
> thing relatively painless.  We've used it for recording concerts, and
> chaptering the different acts.  And it seems to be one of the few that
> creates fairly error-free discs.  I don't just mean discs that play
> well, I mean ones that aren't full of masses DVD technical errors that
> make duplication, or even playing, discs difficult on other decks.
>
> I find stand-alone recording equipment to be generally a lot less
> annoying that computerised video equipment.  Professional video
> production is my career, and this is the easiest way to go, for low/no
> budget productions, in my experience.  If you go the whole hog, you can
> easily spend hours and hours in post production, for no tangible
> improvement for the type of job you outline.
>
>   
>> In both cases the church is also talking about putting streaming audio
>> or streaming video on their web site.
>>     
>
> Might be worth looking at some of the youtube tutorials.  The same
> things will apply for preparing video for your own website as theirs.
>
>   
Well I have used Audacity for 3-10 min recordings in the past but not 
for hour long recordings. I have never had a problem with my FC7 machine 
here at home.  The FC10 machine that I threw together for this has the 
same MSI mother board that I have in my FC7 machine. We are only going 
to do audio at the moment and, I hope in the near future we will start 
doing some sort of video.  I put this machine together and loaded FC10 
Sat. and verified that sound worked, didn't have time to do much 
testing.  Took the machine to the church this morning and did the 
recording. I was disappointed with the results this first week.  There 
was a high pitched hiss throughout the recording.  I don't know what to 
make of it yet.  I am taking the sound directly from our 32 channel 
audio mixer. Not the right sound for a ground loop. We have about a 6 
foot unbalanced cable that goes from the board then splits into the tape 
deck and the computer. Less than a foot from the split to each. The tape 
doesn't have it but it may not be able to reproduce it very well.  Using 
the built in sound of the mother board.

David