Wanted to bring up ideas for recording....

[DJ Jackalope]

There's been a lot of talk about getting and/or not getting sets recorded at Defcon so we can have them to wreck our speakers for the next few years to come.

There are a few different areas this year for music and not just the main ballroom with the angry mono-colored nightly chaos.

I am aware that some of the DJs who are playing will have laptops and with some luck, would be willing to record a couple of gigs of noise into their boxes for us to archive.

Anyone want to step up at little bit to help us get history saved? If even for just a set or two, that would be the awesomest.

[sigtrap]

Re: Wanted to bring up ideas for recording....

Nice,
As a VJ I can easily record the music, but the video (and video effects) it's about 8Gig per hour... No space on my hard drive

For people who want to save the video they have to bring some type of video recorder. The sound from the video will probably not be a problem (take the sound from the mixer set to the video recorder).

But this is probably not the issue... Just wanted to inform that recording could be more complicated if we want it. Maybe next year there will be even more Video Jockeys.

Regards
//Sigtrap aka VJ Q.Alba

[DJ Jackalope]

Re: Wanted to bring up ideas for recording....

For people who want to save the video they have to bring some type of video recorder. The sound from the video will probably not be a problem (take the sound from the mixer set to the video recorder).

So in order to record the audio for the location(s) you are placed, how much space are you thinking you would need? What if we made an external HD appear and you can record audio / vid for the stuff you are around for? Would your rig work for that?

[sigtrap]

Re: Wanted to bring up ideas for recording....

So in order to record the audio for the location(s) you are placed, how much space are you thinking you would need? What if we made an external HD appear and you can record audio / vid for the stuff you are around for? Would your rig work for that?

Yup,
I use Fraps to record the video (800x600) and sound output. Usually low CPU load, but you can never know. I recorded my demo (ask me for a private FTP account to download it) with it over 1Gig Ethernet but it should probably work over USB HD (if it can write fast). Oh, I have no free USB connections... I'll have to get one USB hub if someone will bring an USB HD. Maybe it's better and easier to just buy a larger internal HD. The record size will probably be 8-12Gig for one hour (uncompressed).

Should someone else use the external HD then I will just buy an USB hub and use it too.
//Sigtrap aka VJ Q.Alba

[5h4g]

Re: Wanted to bring up ideas for recording....

Hey Jackalope...
I've got an elegant solution for you if you want. I have an M-audio microtrack II that I use to record my live PA right off the DJ mixer. If we have either a DJM series or Xone series or the like, we're sure to have an RCA "record out" jack on the back that the microtrack will jack into. We can record straight to mp3 format, and there's even a very nice/handy/clean limiter on-board the microtrack II now, so that peak sigs will get naturally squashed and put in their place without too much audio distortion.
It takes CF cards, so if you or anyone else just wants to buy a cheap 4GB CF card, you'd be more than welcome to use the microtrack.
After the show, you can either plug the microtrack II directly in via USB, or else, you can pop the CF card itself into a reader and pull the audio files down directly through an os file manager.
It fuckin' works great and is built for this exact scenario...

[Captain Awesome]

Re: Wanted to bring up ideas for recording....

I use an Edirol UA-1ex USB soundcard plumbed into my laptop to record my sets. Both RCA/line and S/PDIF digital input and output, superb quality, considering the price of the device. ASIO-compatible (although I just use Audacity).

I assume that recording duration is probably constricted by the memory available on the laptop but I've recorded four hours using 2GB RAM running Win XP without any issues.

[DJ Jackalope]

Re: Wanted to bring up ideas for recording....

HI out there---

once I get the 1030428 things that have to be done immediately off my place, I can start to get together with Great Scott (Hey, you, wake up!) and start to figure out who is where and doesn't have to make any special trips to con locations, etc to do recording and who may need what for storage, etc...

just letting you guys know where I'm at... unless anyone out there would like to take the reins! (by all means, i wont stop you, go run with it!!)

My only request: we (being the djs at the very minimum) have access to the sets within a week after defcon - and honestly just plain DURING defcon would be the best, exchange data on thumb drives, whatever...collect all 40 sets with baseball cards, whatever.

[Chris]

Re: Wanted to bring up ideas for recording....

I am hoping to get audio and video of our set.

Wad is going to bring an HD camcorder and record us, but I am not too sure what the audio will sound like on that. Having a decent audio track would be nice.

[Captain Awesome]

Re: Wanted to bring up ideas for recording....

I assume that recording duration is probably constricted by the memory available on the laptop but I've recorded four hours using 2GB RAM running Win XP without any issues.

I got curious about this and did some investigation - turns out that Audacity writes the sound data out to it's temp directory on disk in 1MB-ish chunks as it records, so the limiting factor isn't RAM - it's the available hard disk space.

My only request: we (being the djs at the very minimum) have access to the sets within a week after defcon - and honestly just plain DURING defcon would be the best, exchange data on thumb drives, whatever...collect all 40 sets with baseball cards, whatever.

Find someone friendly with a Soundcloud PRO account who's prepared to allow people to upload sets to their DropBox and make them available for download.

[greatscott]

Re: Wanted to bring up ideas for recording....

I need to check the forums more often.

As per DT's request, I'm working on making sure that all sets get recorded to host/post up on the DC site, so no need to worry on y'allz ends.