"long" recording

Southpaw_Pete · 11-06-2009, 06:22 AM

Hi All

My company is doing a seminar in a few weeks, and the MD wants an audio recording to publish on the website.

if I load up Reaper on a laptop, and get his lapel mic hooked up, is Reaper suitable for hitting record and just letting it run (maybe up to 3 hours total)? I've only ever done "song length" recordings, so I don't know if there's a limit to the length of an individual track?

Many thanks

Peter

schwa · 11-06-2009, 06:29 AM

Just make sure you don't have file/project settings/limit project length set, and that you have enough disk.

Southpaw_Pete · 11-06-2009, 08:12 AM

Thanks Schwa

Nothing spells "P45" quicker than cutting the MD off mid-presentation!

zappa · 11-06-2009, 09:05 AM

Might be worth lowering the audio resolution somewhat since it's only voice. It would also be nice if reaper had some kind of auto-record disable based on gate logic for this purpose. Plugin perhaps?

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Originally Posted by Southpaw_Pete

Nothing spells "P45" quicker than cutting the MD off mid-presentation!

Is schwa gonna get that reference?

martygras · 11-06-2009, 09:18 AM

I recently recorded 3 days full of speakers for a "green expo".
2 ch stereo @ 24bit. One project for each day.
(24 bit is overkill for lectures for sure.)
After each speaker was done I hit stop and saved. About 5 hours of recorded material each day.

Reaper is awesome.

shemp · 11-06-2009, 10:22 AM

you can also record directly to .ogg or something other than .wav to conserve disk space if that is an issue.

pjk · 11-06-2009, 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by zappa

Is schwa gonna get that reference?

hah, i had to look it up, being a yank and all . . .

Captain Damage · 11-06-2009, 04:17 PM

I've recorded chorus concerts over an hour long at 44.1x24 without issue. Just a single stereo track, continuous recording, dropping markers to separate the songs in editing.

I use an older 1.8gHz Think Pad w/ 1gig ram, an Alesis i/o2 interface and write to an external hdd.

bullshark · 11-06-2009, 04:28 PM

Routinely did 2-4 hours rehearsal recording without any glitches. I used the wavepack format for those to cut down filesize, and set Reaper to autosplit files to make the projects more manageable.