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OT Audiophiles: Advice Needed
OT Audiophiles: Advice Needed
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ridge
300 posts
Jan 13, 2012
12:21 PM
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I know I don't post much, and it stinks that my first topic in a long time is OT, but here it goes.
I'm working on a project at my job, but I lack the expertise to know the answer to my question. We have a recording studio on campus that records audio books for the visually impaired. Currently, we have four booths that have four corresponding computers. When recordings are done, each recording happens locally to the respective computer. We record in 44.1mHz Mono .WAV format. What I'd like to do is record straight over our network to a network storage device.
Does anybody here have direct experience recording over a local network in this fashion? I need to know if this is feasible at all.
Thanks for any advice or direction that any of you may be able to give me.
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nacoran
5104 posts
Jan 13, 2012
2:15 PM
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So the computers aren't networked? To clarify, are you asking if you can replace the computers in the system or do you just want them networked to a central location?
If you are trying to take them out of the loop entirely, that's doable, but more involved. You could use USB microphones and run USB cable back to a central computer, but you would need some way to start the recording (someone in the other room or a switch.) If you already have the other computers and you are just trying to get them to save to a central location it's much more straight forward.
There are several solutions, depending on what hardware your computers have. They should have ethernet jacks, at least. If they are newer computers they might already have WiFi capability. If they have WiFi and you can get a signal from a wireless router then that is one less step in the process (but if they are in different rooms they may not get a good signal).
Either way, the simplest way is probably a wireless hard drive/router combination. We got one for my buddy for Christmas last year so he could keep files backed up between a couple computers around his house. I haven't looked at prices since then, but the one we got him was about $125. If the wireless signal reaches all the rooms and the computers all have WiFi that solves the problem. If they don't have WiFi or the signal isn't strong enough because the computers are in different rooms, then you can either add WiFi cards to the computers (really cheap) or run cables to the rooms (probably ethernet cable, although it's possible to set it up with USB. You just have people save onto that hard drive instead of the local one.
It's possible to just run the cables between the computer and leave the external hard drive out of the system. You would use one computer as the server. Actually, if your computers already have WiFi cards they might be able to create a local network without any cables at all.
It depends a little on what exactly you want to accomplish in the end.
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ridge
301 posts
Jan 13, 2012
4:03 PM
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The computers ARE networked and currently recording locally and then copying files to a consumer grade NAS device.
I desperately want to get them on a professional grade SAN and I'm hoping they can record directly to this to save steps in copying and unnecessary overhead.
MVLUN - Thanks for the link. I've been searching for terms like "recording over network" etc, but not getting good results.
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