[ale] [OT] Speech Recording

[Preston Boyington]

> 
> I'm curious if anyone has any suggestions for recording a 
> sermon (30-45
> minutes) to MP3 or CD.  Will it suffice to hookup a line-out from the
> mixing board to a line-in on a computer, and find some software to do
> the recording?
> 
> Any thoughts, tips, etc, are greatly appreciated.
> 
> TIA 
> 
> Jonathan Glass
> 


consider using ogg format if it is something that you will play on your computer.  also for speech recording I use VBR (variable bit rate) and encode to 32-48k (at 44100khz).  this is what i use for my audiobooks/lectures when i travel.  don't want to take my originals with me.  i usually don't "normalize", but know of some that like that.

roughly an hour of speech (for me) is around 550MB.  I encode this wave file to ogg at 32k/44100khz VBR and it is about 13MB.  this is how i catalog it (ogg format).  if i need to burn it to CD it is a simple decode to wave.

just my thoughts,


Preston