Alternate solution to getting audio into your computer

Posted on Jan 22, 2003 12:44 am
ilubdonutz
Member Since: Jan 22, 2003

Okay so here's the story, I've been meaning to purchase a high end A/D Conversion sound card for my computer system to complete my Video editing station. But Unfortunatly being a typical, broke college student, money was an issue.

One day when I was tinkering with the capture software, Vegas Video 3.0 and my sony digital camera, the idea just hit me: My camera can convert analog to digital and can take inputs and send it out through the fire wire cable with 0 latency. And because DV Video sound is around 48khz (64khz on my friend's XL1) and digital, the sound was clean and noise free. SO I messed around, I pluged in my DJ set to the camera, played a record and sure enough it was playing through the firewire capture card. I pressed capture and recorded.

The sound was amazing, it was just clean...so I had a talk with my band and told them I wanted to experiment on the next rehersal. I took the snake we used for live gigs, miked everyone in the living room where we practiced and ran it to the mixer in my room. I hooked up my monitors to the mixer and the connections to the camera and then to the computer... well... the recording was clean!

I was amazed, the only drawback is... it's an AVI File so the size is around 950mb per 4 minutes. But I have 120 gb for video editing. the solution was to convert it to wav or w64 (sonic foundry)

it was a start... now I use this every time I record something. and for Multitracking I have actually started to pay more attention to the audio aspect of vegas video. That first recording really got me interested in learning more about recording... so the first recording turned out good, the second, the most recent... turned out Great!

So here's what I used for turning my video editing station into a full digital recorder:

24 channel mixer, my sony mini-dv camera set to VTR mode, Pinnicle 1EEE 1394 Fire Wire card, monster fire wire cable, Vegas Video 3.0 ,Sound Forge 6.0.

Those days when you aren't studying really open up some ideas.

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