On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 10:41:42 -0700 John R Pierce wrote:> do note, if this is a stage grade electric piano, using big phone plugs, > the audio level out is not quite the same as consumer line level that a > computer input would want to record,My piano does indeed the big phone plugs. I have some adapter plugs in my junk box that will probably serve to allow me to do the physical hook-up here. I was really hoping to be able to get this done without having to purchase additional hardware. I'll have to dig out the manual for my piano and do a bit of reading to see what's really going on with those plugs and whatnot. The only thing I've ever plugged into it so far is headphones. I was looking at a higher-end digital piano a while back that can record a wav file to a flash drive that you just plug into the piano. Which is starting to sound like a very handy feature to have available. That gives me one more reason to consider upgrading my piano someday, I suppose. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com
On 6/23/2015 2:05 PM, Frank Cox wrote:> I'll have to dig out the manual for my piano and do a bit of reading to see what's really going on with those plugs and whatnot. The only thing I've ever plugged into it so far is headphones.if you can plug in headphones, then you can plug it into a computer line-in jack with a suitable cable, just set the headphone volume on the piano for about 60-70% of full range, thats a good approximation of 1V P-P line input. make sure the piano is plugged into the same power strip or wall outlet as the computer to minimize potential for ground loop hum/buzz on your audio. now, if you're going to be doing a /lot/ of this, and want to be able to do it in realtime (playing while reading), getting a little mixer panel, with an XLR microphone and integral digital recorder (typically recording to an SD card), might be useful. something like.... http://tascam.com/product/dp-006/ or http://tascam.com/product/dr-40/ that 2nd one is a pocket sized digital audio recorder with integral stereo microphones and line input, it will record 4 tracks (stereo mics, stereo line in) concurrently directly to an SD card, you can then edit the audio files in audacity or whatever to clean them up and balance the levels, etc. the recordings will also be much higher fidelity and cleaner sounding than most any PC sound card inputs. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz
On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 14:26:19 -0700 John R Pierce wrote:> if you can plug in headphones, then you can plug it into a computer > line-in jack with a suitable cable, just set the headphone volume on the > piano for about 60-70% of full range, thats a good approximation of 1V > P-P line input.Thank you ever so much for the help!> that 2nd one is a pocket sized digital audio recorder with integral > stereo microphones and line input, it will record 4 tracks (stereo mics, > stereo line in) concurrently directly to an SD card, you can then edit > the audio files in audacity or whatever to clean them up and balance the > levels, etc. the recordings will also be much higher fidelity and > cleaner sounding than most any PC sound card inputs.Now that looks like one dandy gadget! I might have to look at getting one of those at some point. Never knew such a thing existed until now. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com