Hi Danny, it's certainly possible, I do the Mosen Explosion on Mushroom FM every week this way. I use a tiny Toshiba Portige R600, there are newer replacement models now, I think the R800 may be out. My wife has a compatible laptop, so in the studio, we have a docking station/port replicator. Connected to that is the hard drive containing all the music and other elements, and the external sound card, an Edirol UA1-EX. We also use an external keyboard.
The Edirol sound card goes in and out of the broadcast console. It's a pretty no frills kind of card, but it was easy to set up and it sounds great. I suspect that too, will have been superseded by a newer model by now. That said, you can use StationPlaylist Studio on a laptop with a good quality USB microphone, and Studio's own audio pipeline. that is a much simpler set-up, and can still give good results. So really the key thing is to determine whether you want a hardware mixer in the picture or not. In most cases, with a good microphone, there may not be a need for one anymore and I have successfully broadcast via WiFi or 3G from all sorts of locations. This is an additional advantage of having everything on a laptop. You can take it with you and broadcast from cool places. Jonathan -----Original Message----- From: pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Danny Miles Sent: Monday, 7 November 2011 4:20 p.m. To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Choosing Laptop for Internet Radio Broadcasting Hi everyone. I know that this is a very generalised question and that people like to please their own preferences, but any general advice on what to consider or specific recommendations of appropriate machines would be gratefully received. Basically, I'm looking to do some internet radio broadcasting, and I believe that my current laptop is presenting issues with my output (the music broadcasts fine, but vocal broadcasting comes out in very poor quality, even though using exactly the same microphone and soundcard set-up sounds fine in GoldWave). I presume that I need a certain level of RAM and speed of processor, and that there may even be other issues to consider. I have no experience of Apple products, so would be most comfortable with a Windows XP product if a suitable one is still produced or likely to be available secondhand. Likewise, I'd much rather use a laptop as this would satisfy my other needs and enable me to broadcast from places other than my home, but even clarification of whether it is feasible/realistic to do internet broadcasting with a laptop rather than a PC would be very helpful. Many thanks in advance for any help, Danny To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
