http://lwn.net/Articles/263293/ This is a special feed containing comments posted to the individual LWN article titled "Building A Linux Music Studio (LinuxPlanet)". hourly 2 http://lwn.net/Articles/263365/rss 2007-12-29T10:03:09+00:00 BackSeat +1 <p> This isn't about building a music studio: it's essentially a plug for one product. LWN, don't descend to the level of Linux Journal, please. http://lwn.net/Articles/263330/rss 2007-12-28T20:38:40+00:00 pkern <div class="FormattedComment"><pre> Uh, I don't see in which way this article should help to build a music studio. I would have expected a comparision of multi trackers instead. I dislike seeing LWN to become a generic link farm featuring "tutorials". </pre></div> http://lwn.net/Articles/263308/rss 2007-12-28T17:56:06+00:00 tseaver <div class="FormattedComment"><pre> I'll second the author's recommendation of the Handy Zoom2 recorder: I have never seen anything better for doing dirt-simple, high-fidelity field recording. I know musicians who record all their gigs with the device, which is small enough to fit in a shirt pocket, and have been blown away by the quality of the recording. For example, this track was made with the Zoom2 sitting on the floor in the middle of a rehearsal including full horn and rhythm sections; it captured an amazingly faithful (and useful) live track: <a href="http://palladion.com/static/Dragonsbane-Well_You_Neednt-20071027.mp3">http://palladion.com/static/Dragonsbane-Well_You_Neednt-2...</a> For extra bonus points, the device Just Works(TM) with Linux. When plugged in over USB (it is bus powered!), it functions as either a USB disk, allowing you to retrieve the field recordings, or as an ALSA soundcard using the onboard mikes and line out. One quibble with the article: I didn't find it necessary to go through the SOX conversion dance: Audacity was happy to read the raw WAV files directly, after copying to the hard-drive (the USB interface is too slow to work directly from the recorder for large files). </pre></div>