So, my story goes like this... As a youth I played piano for
many, many years. When I departed home for higher education, I never found the
time, access or interest to continue what I had worked on for so long.
Fast forward some 18 years and the interest has finally returned. I recently
purchased a piano of my
own (now I have access) and even went so far as to acquire some amature
recording gear. I can promise you that there are plenty of mistakes, but it is
a work in progress.
Obviously, this material is produced and made available primarily for the
elders that labored to get me to do something for the mind.
Last, this wouldn't be LinuxSoup if I didn't do eveything possible
with Linux. I use a Fostex-MR8 Mixer combined with a modified1
Oktava MK319 mic for recording.
Material is then transferred to my PC running Fedora Core6 via USB. Then I use
Audacity to cleanup the recording and finally LAME to covert it to a mp3.
UPDATE (Mar 2006) Oktava mic is out... I've switched to using 2 AKG Perception 200 mics fed to a Yamaha mixer (better tone control options, and provides phantom power) which then outputs to the FostexMR8. Now the recordings sound a lot more like my piano, plus they're in stereo!!!
Enjoy...
1 mk319 modification: removed the small plastic disks which cover
condensor mic membranes