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Can I do this??

Unread post by sacdeez » Tue Aug 05, 2003 5:30 pm

My friends play a local gig every monday and I want to record one of their shows. Is there a way for me to plug my laptop into their soundboard and record it onto my computer?? Help is greatly appreciated.
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Unread post by Brock » Tue Aug 05, 2003 5:34 pm

You can buy an adapter for your sound card's Line-In jack. Which one you get depends on whether their soundboard has 1/4" outputs or not - if so, just get a 1/4"->1/4" cable and buy a 1/4"->1/8" adapter and plug in. If not, you can try to find an XLR->1/4" cable and buy a 1/4"->1/8" adapter.

Those suggestions are assuming you don't want to spend a lot of money and are satisfied with pretty good quality (not the best, but not bad either).
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Unread post by sacdeez » Tue Aug 05, 2003 5:43 pm

yea, i'm not looking to spend a ton of money and i just want it so i can give them a copy to hear how they sound.

also do i need some sort of software to do this so i can convert to mp3 or wav?

thanks for the help
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Unread post by Brock » Tue Aug 05, 2003 5:48 pm

you're gonna need to have some recording software, such as cool edit pro (which you can get fairly easily, if you don't know how pm me), and i think vers. 2 can export to mp3, if not then dbPowerAmp makes a free converter that works great.
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Unread post by MattyTrane » Wed Aug 06, 2003 9:30 am

TrippnBill686 wrote:You can buy an adapter for your sound card's Line-In jack. Which one you get depends on whether their soundboard has 1/4" outputs or not - if so, just get a 1/4"->1/4" cable and buy a 1/4"->1/8" adapter and plug in. If not, you can try to find an XLR->1/4" cable and buy a 1/4"->1/8" adapter.

Those suggestions are assuming you don't want to spend a lot of money and are satisfied with pretty good quality (not the best, but not bad either).
btw, you ever gonna buy that recording shiat? the one that looks like a cable modem?
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