Hence the investigation into audio recording interfaces and recording software. Miking the room with a Blue Snowball satisfies this requirement in a very crude way but after doing it for awhile I feel the need to improve my control over the entire process. I record us for the simple pleasure of hearing how we sound, if we’re getting any better with time, and for instructional purposes to provide evidence of where we succeed and fail and where to concentrate our efforts. Although we’ve been playing every week over the past two years we have no serious aspirations except to have a lot of fun and play the music we all love. Some simple background – the band I referred to is just a half dozen guys (ages 30-60) who get together once a week (like a bowling night) to play together. Unfortunately once I actually have someone’s attentive ear, a dozen more questions pop into my head and you’ve been the most forthcoming and helpful to date. This forum probably isn’t the place for all this text, but I don’t know how to contact you directly. Seablade - Thank you for all of the helpful information and suggestions to date. If you are tracking live concerts, there is one or two tweaks to Ardour’s config I can walk you through to ensure you use a nice large recording buffer and don’t have as many problems with disk access, but even so I would still strongly suggest using an external HD if you aren’t already. If you don’t need preamps(Say if you are coming out of the direct outs of a console) then I would strongly suggest the Echo Audiofire line instead. I can tell you right now in my small tracking rig, I have a focusrite saffire pro40 with a digimax FS in the ADAT to allow for up to 16 tracks and since the v2 of the Focusrite drivers came out have been reasonably happy with it, along with being very pleased with their customer service. I know a few folks using the Tascam, I haven't myself yet to know how good it is or isn't. I will admit a lot of my dislike of MOTU comes from their attitude towards their customers, their interfaces supposedly work fine but I have never been impressed with their software either. Hmm truthfully? I am not a big fan of any of those. Just for the sake of completeness, copying my reply over from your other thread… I would welcome any experience or guidance in choosing the best option with Ardour. The units most mentioned are Alesis iO 26, Presonus FirePod or Presonus Fire Studio, Motu 8PRE, M-Audio ProFire 2626, and Tascam 1641. There are a handful of hardware units that are most often sited at the low end and I’m trying to develop a consensus as to which is the best unit (or gamble) to work with the MAC OS and Ardour. Without spending a lot of money I’m trying to find the perfect audio recording interface to use with my MAC and will communicate accurately with Ardour. Along this line I’ve been doing a lot of research which is how I discovered Ardour. I’ve been trying to upgrade to a solution that would allow me to record at least eight analog inputs simultaneously into eight separate tracks. It’s decent for what it is, but doesn’t allow for any mix prior to final output. I have an Intel MacBook Pro that I’ve been using to record our band live in the room, using an Blue Snowball.
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