Music Imputs

[Religious Crisis]

I posted this in the computer forum as well, but I thought that you guys might have some ideas. I want to hook my computer to my soundboard and I have the cords to do it, I just want to know if I am able to record live and what kind of sound capture softwear I would need to do this?

 

[Kepa]

I posted this in the computer forum as well, but I thought that you guys might have some ideas. I want to hook my computer to my soundboard and I have the cords to do it, I just want to know if I am able to record live and what kind of sound capture softwear I would need to do this?

By soundboard, do you mean mixing desk?
Yes it is possible for you to record.
The only software you'll need is something that'll record sound onto your computer.

What sort of soundcard do you have? I'm guessing you only have a single line in... and I'm also guessing that the line in jack is a 1/8" TRS unbalanced stereo jack.

What sort of outputs does your mixing desk have? I'm guessing you have seperate left and right 1/4" jacks. With this... you're going to have to either pan everything to one side and use the single output, or you're going to have to buy an adapter that'll change 2 unbalanced mono jacks into 1 unbalanced stereo plug or jack.

Then you hook that upto your comp. And you're ready to record.
Ofcourse you have no idea what you're feeding into your computer, and the only way you'll find out is when you play it back, then if it doesn't sound any good you'll have to tweak everything and hope that you got it right and re-record. And that process will continue untill you get it right. So instead of doing that, you'll want to monitor what's being fed through to the computer in realtime. This will mean hooking up monitors to your mixing desk or hooking up headphones. Get everyone to play, get everything set, then record.

Just thought I'd try and cover all bases.