Getting a mixer
After about a week of playing telephone- and e-mail- tag with the seller, I finally picked up my spiffy little mixer from the ebay seller. A good price (AU$66/ US$50; usually costs AU$89 [or more] new); local seller, so didn't have to pay for shipping; and it runs on Aussie voltage -- unlike all of my Seattle gear.For those of you who know (and care) these things: 8 inputs, two bus, two output; tape in/tape out capabilities; two mic ins, with phantom power. The tape out (via RCA jacks) will be very handing for jacking it in to the ''line in'' port on my computer soundcard, via the ''stereo 1/8'' jack into two mono RCA plug'' conversion cable.
Now I can record The Kid's talking. Verbally, I sense we're in a fairly key transitional stage. I'd like to take an audio ''snapshot'' every three months or so, just for archival purposes. Something to show The Kid later, when she's an adult: ''This is what you sounded like when you were a baby...''
--GG
posted by Gye Greene @ 1:15 PM
2 Comments:
Wouldn't a tape recorder be easier? :-) Although, you *could* mix in all the 3-month spaced recordings of her together and make a song -- say, a 3 minute song that spans her voice mixed with the past 9 years, for example? Spiffy!
Well, that **would** be the most straightforward, wouldn't it? ;)
None of my tape recorders run on Aussie voltage -- and for that matter, not sure if I have a working U.S. voltage tape recorder any more, anyhow...
For the reading audience: cassette tapes aren't really archival-quality media -- although they'll **mostly** work. But my aim is to digitize, then store in several (physical) places in case of HD crash (e.g. burn several CD-R, some of which will be stored in other people's closets). :)
--GG
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