Portable recording with a laptop (was: Re: [vorbis] new stuff and question)

[al goldstein]

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Colin D Bennett wrote:
I gave up on lapdogs. Too expensive for me. I settled on a shuttle xpc. It's
a pc 8x8x11 inches. Most of the weight is in the hardrive, cdrom driv and
floppy. It has a shoulder strap carrying case ($26). I got the barebones
for $185. Added peripherals, processor and sound card (audigy1). However
the built in sound and ether are respectable. The video is also built in.
The total about $400. Audigy requires line input for recording; so take
that into consideration.

Cheers...........Al

<p>> al goldstein wrote:
>
> >I want arelatively cheap laptop to do portable recording. Any good choices
> >available?
> >.......Al
> >
> >
>
> I've wondered how good a laptop really is for recording. Maybe for what
> you're planning to do you aren't worried too much about quality, but I
> have 2 Behringer mics and a little mixer, and I've done a little
> recording using my laptop of my sister playing harp. I just haven't been
> impressed with the sound quality.  I'm using the integrated sound card
> on the laptop, and I think it is just really noisy. Has anyone else
> noticed this? I can even sometimes hear noises in my headphones when the
> hard drive is accessed.
>
> Has anyone used a USB sound card? Are there any good quality ones out
> there that would provide better sound quality?
>
> Otherwise, I'll have to use my main system, which is a real pain,
> because it's water cooled (http://colin.radnethosting.com/tsunami) so
> it's quite nonportable. I have a Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 card in my main
> system, which I though was a quality card, but I understand that for
> high quality recording, you should actually have a "professional" sound
> card. Is this true? What kind of sound card should I get, then?
>
> -cd
>
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