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mdlbearWell, it took all afternoon, but I think I finally have a "studio" configuration that will let me record without needing ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
chaoswolf to sit around and twiddle knobs and push buttons for me. It will require a bit of tedious back-and-forthing until I find the 10' extension cable for the soundcard's preamp box.
Anyway, the rig involves a very small laptop sitting on a TV tray table between the mic stands and the music stand. Along the way I had to recompile Audacity in order to get the latest version (1.2.2, which has level meters). Why somebody thought it made sense to have a multitrack sound-recording program without level meters is beyond my limited powers of understanding (except that I suspect it may have started out as an editor, making recording something of an afterthought).
chaoswolf to sit around and twiddle knobs and push buttons for me. It will require a bit of tedious back-and-forthing until I find the 10' extension cable for the soundcard's preamp box.Anyway, the rig involves a very small laptop sitting on a TV tray table between the mic stands and the music stand. Along the way I had to recompile Audacity in order to get the latest version (1.2.2, which has level meters). Why somebody thought it made sense to have a multitrack sound-recording program without level meters is beyond my limited powers of understanding (except that I suspect it may have started out as an editor, making recording something of an afterthought).