[MPA] Recording with laptop

[lazy right eye]

Ok, ok. Enough already. There are SEVERAL options for you PB users wantign 
to record audio...

I record soundboard recordings of live bands about once a week - using 
iBook, Roland UA-30 (maybe $175ish) and SPDIF ($10) cable. Easy cheesy. Not 
one single complaint... ok, if needing totaly portability, my iBook battery 
is completely useless. But when power is supplied, golden.

On the super cheap, I bet u could pick up an iMic (maybe $30) and a 1/4" 
stereo > 1/8" stereo cable ($10 tops), and run from the soundboard to the 
iMic.. and get a decent result.

Any further questions, feel free to contact me.

Good luck.


----Original Message Follows----
From: Cyril Blanc <blanc.cyril at wanadoo.fr>
Reply-To: "Mac Pro Audio List" <MacProAudio at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
To: "Mac Pro Audio List" <MacProAudio at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
Subject: Re: [MPA] Recording with laptop
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 08:01:47 +0100

With a Laptop you can add a Magma box (or equivalent) to add PCI cards to
your laptop ;o)


On 2/20/04 2:04 AM, "Barry Lyden" <blyden at mac.com> wrote:

 > I appreciate your position, but I think you missed the point a bit. I
 > don't disagree that PCI audio solutions afford much greater throughput,
 > but I (and the original poster) are using laptops. And while I can't
 > speak for the original poster, in my case, simplicity and portability
 > are important factors. I'm not trying to do 24-track recording with a
 > laptop. For projects involving 4 tracks or less, I have found USB and
 > Firewire 400 interfaces to be adequate. Anything more than that, and I
 > would certainly move up to a desktop solution as you suggested.
 >
 >
 > On Feb 19, 2004, at 11:33 AM, Cyril Blanc wrote:
 >
 >>
 >>
 >> If I was you I would not go for a USB I audio, the through put of the
 >> USB is
 >> very poor !
 >>
 >> Even a FW 400 is very risky ! Today Logic only supports on FW audio
 >> interface at a time.
 >>
 >
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