David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> writes: > On Sun 06 Aug 2017 at 20:21:49 (+0200), Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> writes: >> > On Sun 06 Aug 2017 at 18:18:46 (+0200), Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> >> The cable that made me possible to live record stereo from two mics, >> >> without mixer nor preamp nor external audio card nor audio interface, is >> >> a 3.5mm twin-mono-female and a 3.5mm single-stereo-male: the two mics >> >> plugged into the two mono females and the stereo male plugged into the >> >> `mic' input of my PC. This cable was solded for me by the owner of the >> >> electricity shop near my house. >> > >> > Glad you got one. (My Y cables are for sharing a single stereo output >> > into two people's headsets.) The soldering solution I proposed earlier >> > was specifically to avoid having to deal with soldering tiny wires into >> > tiny plugs, practical in the past but no fun nowadays. >> > >> >> To add a third microphone for human voice (the former two are for piano), >> >> I plan to use a second PC as suggested by Fungi4All. This way I'll >> >> continue to do without mixer or audio interface, till the moment I'll >> >> want to do things more professionally. Now, they're just home made >> >> records... >> > >> > Oh my, thoughts of Itchycoo Park come to mind. (Just showing my age.) >> > I don't think you'll enjoy listening to the results.. >> >> >> Why do you think so? Just recording with two mics in the Y cable you spoke >> about produced a not bad result... > > I'm assuming that your vocalist is being accompanied live (otherwise > the problem disappears by using a second pass) and is being > accompanied by said piano.
Exactly. > So both PCs' recordings will have piano on them. Yes. > How do you mix than so that the phase of the piano signals is > preserved? It's not clear to me (but might be worth an experiment) > that you could avoid phasing effects or localisation (precedence effect) > instability. However, if it works, so be it. Give it a try. Perhaps > you can synchronise the recordings by minimising these very effects. Mmmmm... Otherwise I'll have to buy a mixer. Rodolfo