mikemax04 said:
Jason, can you clarify what is needed to record the pipes on the Max? What type of microphone, what type of recorder and how to get the sound on the Net like you did. Would appreciate all the info you can give. TIA
What I did was probably overkill but it's all I had to work with. I pulled out some old guitar and stereo gear. All stuff I had laying around, nothing fancy, and went something like this:
1 - cheapie microphone from radio shack
1 - fairly decent sure microphone
2 - microphone boom stands (the kind that pivot in the middle)
1 - old Onkyo cassette deck that has two 1/4" mic inputs w/input level on the front for left/right. Probably find one like it at a pawn shop cheap.
I folded the boom stands in half getting the mics near the exhaust outlet. I found I had to be just above and behind the outlet to prevent the exhaust wind from hitting the mics directly. Else, all you'd get was popping on the mic diaphragm. Then adjusted the mic levels on the Onkyo as to not distort when revving the engine.
After recording I put the RCA L/R out from the back of the Onkyo into a stereo RCA to stereo 1/8" phono plug converter from radio shack. This then went into the 1/8" line in of my PC sound card.
I used the free Audacity recorder
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ (really nice program by the way) to record the output of the Onkyo to my hard drive and convert it to mp3.
I'm sure there are ways much less involved to do this. But, like I said, it was all stuff I had laying around and thought it would be interesting to have a stereo recording. I'd like to hook up something portable so I could take it through the gears down the road. I'm not sure how to deal with the wind noise though. I like some of the vmax riding videos on the net, really cool, but most if not all loose the sound to wind @ 60mph.
I'll think on it...
Post them up here.
