Recording Worship

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Comment by Julia Chantrell on 4 November 2008 at 8:03am

Audacity every time. MUCH easier to cut into bits and create new files of the bits you've cut out. You can only have one file at a time open in Kristal which makes life really complicated.

Comment by Eric on 4 November 2008 at 12:12am

So Julia - Which do you think is best for recording servies, dividing sermon, childrens talks etc into tracks - Kristal or audacity.

(Assuming that the very best of music quality is not required.)

Eric

Comment by Julia Chantrell on 21 July 2008 at 10:18pm

For live recording I'd recommend Audacity. I use a laptop [with plenty of battery power!] and take a line from the headphone socket of the desk to the line-in on the external sound module [don't use the mic socket].
Then, I edit at home - cut out the songs, gaps, obvious ums, ers, coughs and sneezes, export the edited track to wav, use Switch Audio converter to make an mp3 and upload to Soundclick. Or write the wav file to CD.
You can also pause the recording on Audacity so you don't get the bits you don't want in the first place - but it does mean having someone really on the ball in charge of the recording. If you do that, and invest in a CD duplicator, you can have the CDs ready by the time peeps have drunk their coffee [but they do cost for the fast ones!]

Comment by Eric on 7 July 2008 at 6:29pm

We are luddites - and still recorded to cassette tape. I have to sit in my car to listen to practise runs of my own sermons, as I don’t have a working tape deck anywhere else.

Although we did send MP3 recordings of sermons to Ethiopia on CD a few years ago, but that was done at home not at church. We are about to start recording the service to DVD with multiple PTZ cameras (PTZ – small remote controlled Pan, Tilt and Zoom camera – fancy web cams if you like – often used for video conferencing and shop security cameras.)

I want to record services digitally, save them to hard disk and burn CDs almost on demand. Do I gather you would recommend Kristal Audio Engine or have I miss understood. Would this make it easy to record the whole service and then cut the Sermon out. Is there an easy way to do that as the service goes a long. E.g. hit a key to force a track divide.

Comment by Julia Chantrell on 29 June 2008 at 1:53pm

Having received permission from the Boss, I'm going to thoroughly recommend Kristal Audio Engine;

http://www.kreatives.org/kristal/index.php?section=details

... and also the community that comes with it!

http://www.kristalusers.net/forumdisplay.php?fid=2

I've been recording Sunday morning worship for two or three years using Audacity, which I think a lot of people already use;

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

but for recording songs and music to near professional quality, Kristal is much better, and the guys at the forum are really helpful and knowledgeable in all areas of music and sound.