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Re: four-channel digital recording

Subject: Re: four-channel digital recording
From: "Emanuele Costantini" lamacchiacosta
Date: Thu Oct 29, 2009 2:10 am ((PDT))
Hi Rob,

have a look to the Edirol R44 is actually the cheapest 4 channel
portable recorder (if you don't fancy hack the zoom H4).
If you have a computer Mac, you can build an Aggregate Device and use
two or more sound cards at time without issues.
Excellent free software you could use could be:

Audacity

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Ardour

http://ardour.org/

Rec

http://www.polyrythmic.org/en/index.php

and whatever freebie you can find one the net.


>
>
> Hello,
>
> I am asked fairly often for help referring a product that will record
> four channels simultaneously. Mic preamps would be nice and a USB or
> Firewire interface to a laptop would be good. I've never found such a
> device outside of a PCI device--which isn't all that convenient for
> portable applications. Does anybody know of anything?
>
> Short of that, is there free or low-cost software available that will
> record two stereo USB sound interfaces at the same time? This is less
> desirable, I think, because I would expect relative timing errors to
> occur in the serial data paths of the two cards. Is there a way to
> compensate for this?
>
> My application would most often be for setting up hydrophone arrays to
> monitor the location of cetaceans while recording their vocalizations.
> We seem to have so many great options for digital recording these days
> that is seems like a four-channel budget system could be made without
> moving into DAQ-oriented devices.
>
> Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
>
> .
>
>


--
Emanuele Costantini

Sound, Media Engineer
Filmmaker

www.ecciproduzioni.com
www.imdb.com/name/nm1987084/







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