Recording Long sets

[shan]

Hi,

For my stags I am renting out 4 houses on a river and each house comes with your own boat cant wait.

anyway we are bring the decks etc as we plan on having about a 14 hour music fest! I was thinking of recording the whole lot on to my laptop and was wondering would soundforge be good enough for this? and how much space do you think Id need on my laptop for that?

thanks for your help

Mick

[Watcher2k]

Re: Recording Long sets

Cool Edit 2.0 works great for me. But my sets are usually only 2 to 6 hours sometimes.

You may want to find a recording program that isnt resource heavy on your laptop.

[13kickdrums]

Re: Recording Long sets

@ 44.1/16 bit youre looking at around 8.82 GB for 14 hours.

(10.5MB/stereo min x 14 x 60minutes)

or...you could audio hijack it and record it as an MP3. as well, you can tell audio hijack to create a different file every so often(5 minutes) and make quick CDS out of it later just by dragging 16 separated but continuous files into Roxio Jam with 0 seconds in between tracks....

not sure if audio hijack is for the PC too but im sure theres a comparable program for PC

audio hijack is www.rogueamoeba.com

[TomTom]

Re: Recording Long sets

I was thinking of recording the whole lot on to my laptop and was wondering would soundforge be good enough for this? and how much space do you think Id need on my laptop for that?

thanks for your help

Mick

Soundforge can't record more than 2 or 3 hours in one session. You would have to save one part after let?s say 2 hours which means you won't get a continuous recording. But you can use Total recorder to record the 14 hours in one shot. Toal recorder allows you to record in WAV quality or whatever mp3 resolution you want. You can also set Total recorder to save either the entire recording as one file or save it as 80 minute long files so they fit on a audio CD if you want to burn it. The benefit of this is that Total recorder is able to continue recording while the indivial parts are saved so you don't loose anything. If you want to find out how to work with Total Recorder, check this thread: http://www.mercurynation.com/forums/...pic.php?t=4405

[dvs]

Re: Recording Long sets

i use bias peak 4 on my mac, not sure how long u can record for...

[superEGO72]

Re: Recording Long sets

Soundforge can't record more than 2 or 3 hours in one session.

thats not true.

ive recorded MANY MANY sets in the 3-6 hour length with sound forge, and it has never had any issues with it. youjust need to make sure that you have a large enough disk to handle the massive file.

as far as the 13 hour mark or whatever -- its probably a good idea, just to be on the safe side, to make a new recording everytime a new dj starts.

we were using a recorder (the name of which escapes me right now) to record a house party where 3 of us spun for near 12 hours... well, around hour 8, some fluke error caused us to lose those first 8 houts. it sucked.

[Balanc3]

Re: Recording Long sets

If using Total Recorder just don't forget to use a MP3 codec, because TR will not let you save WAV files over 4hrs in length due to the size of file produced. Creating one large file like that is very risky when going to save, it would be best to create seperate files for each artist/dj.

[dersuuzala]

Re: Recording Long sets

i've recorded 5 hour sets with audacity. any of those programs mentioned should probably be fine, although your computer will bitch and moan when you try to do anything with a 9 gig wav file.

[Twist-R]

Re: Recording Long sets

I wouldn't recommend Soundforge for such long sets.

Soundforge uses a lot of memory. Use something simple like Cool Edit or you could use Wavelab.

Wavelab records "directly to mp3" obviously a temp wave is create but when you save to mp3 you wouldn't have to wait so long.

If you need to split it up, create a cue sheet and when you burn it out its quite simple really.

@ 192kbps/44Khz mp3 you're looking @ roughly around 1.12GB i think.

Uncompressed just think of every the 1:10 ratio to get an estimate.

I've recorded a long set using wavelab and cool edit quite easily, its just sound forge that people normally encounter problems with esp @ long hours.

I hope this helps.

[FM]

Re: Recording Long sets

indeed...the times referenced are for typical 2GB wave files, which is the limitations of many programs out there.

TotalRecorder works well, or another good program is Magix Samplitude Studio Pro if you can find it...that'll record up to whatever your disk has left and it's not too memory intensive.

Good luck editing it though...long fests like that will have levels all over the place

[Pataky P]

Re: Recording Long sets

Yes,the long set is good!!!