Topic: Homebrew 24/96 FLAC recorder

[spott]

Holy crap      , just saw this thing on bt.etree.org... is Burris on here?
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http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=18130

I use a little homebrew thing I made. Its got a pc104 266mhz pentium mmx, pdaudiocf input, 2.5" hd, lcd, buttons, etc... Runs linux with python and the heavy lifting done by a c module. It does 24/96 with on the fly flac compression. By using flac as my file format, I get twice the disk space, unlimited file length, up to 8 tracks in one file, and it takes half as long to transfer into my computer later. It has a 100 mbit ethernet jack and I ftp the data off, takes about 15 minutes for a typical concert. I've been meaning to make a smaller less junky case, fix all the bugs, do 4 tracks (266 mmx not burly enough to flac 4 tracks in real time though), have an 802.11 wireless remote so I can start/stop and monitor levels from the front row, and uh basically finish the thing, but I haven't had time, motivation, or especially money to do any work on it in 2 years.

Here's a few blurry phonecam pics, on the last you can see the stack of PCMCIA cage top, mobo in the middle, and disk drive on the bottom.

[JackoRoses]

Holy crap      , just saw this thing on bt.etree.org... is Burris on here?
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http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=18130

I use a little homebrew thing I made. Its got a pc104 266mhz pentium mmx, pdaudiocf input, 2.5" hd, lcd, buttons, etc... Runs linux with python and the heavy lifting done by a c module. It does 24/96 with on the fly flac compression. By using flac as my file format, I get twice the disk space, unlimited file length, up to 8 tracks in one file, and it takes half as long to transfer into my computer later. It has a 100 mbit ethernet jack and I ftp the data off, takes about 15 minutes for a typical concert. I've been meaning to make a smaller less junky case, fix all the bugs, do 4 tracks (266 mmx not burly enough to flac 4 tracks in real time though), have an 802.11 wireless remote so I can start/stop and monitor levels from the front row, and uh basically finish the thing, but I haven't had time, motivation, or especially money to do any work on it in 2 years.

Here's a few blurry phonecam pics, on the last you can see the stack of PCMCIA cage top, mobo in the middle, and disk drive on the bottom.

wow that thing looks like it rocks

[greenone]

Man, and I'd have been squeamish just replacing the trim pots on the V2.

[Ed.]

damn, nice.

[bconnolly]

That's really really damn cool.  A *nix nerd has his place in any hobby it seems.

[johnw]

Looks like he is using the Core Sound PDAudio for his digi-in. I wonder if he hacked the drivers or if Len makes them available for Linux. Either way, it's pretty impressive.

[sleepypedro]

can anyone mirror the pix here?  the site's down as far as i can tell.

slashdotted after only 7 views from ts.com members, nice

[bconnolly]

can anyone mirror the pix here?  the site's down as far as i can tell.

slashdotted after only 7 views from ts.com members, nice

Here you go:

[rePat]

Looks like he is using the Core Sound PDAudio for his digi-in. I wonder if he hacked the drivers or if Len makes them available for Linux. Either way, it's pretty impressive.

The PDAudio Linux drivers are built into ALSA, just need to be included at compile time.

[Simp-Dawg]

phrog built something similar into the empty casing of a da-p1, it used a digigram i think and ran linux, don't know if he put an lcd on it or not...

[BobW]

can anyone mirror the pix here?  the site's down as far as i can tell.

slashdotted after only 7 views from ts.com members, nice

Here you go:

No duct tape ?  Blasphemy !   

[macdaddy]

for open situations, that would be the wy to go...

i am still holding out hope that there will be a tascam-esque dsd machine that records to harddrive sooner than later.

[lds490]

Looks like he is using the Core Sound PDAudio for his digi-in. I wonder if he hacked the drivers or if Len makes them available for Linux. Either way, it's pretty impressive.

A Linux driver has been available for free on the Core Sounds web site for a couple of years. 

The latest version of Live2496 records direct-to-FLAC at 24/96 on a pda. 

[burris]

The whole thing is held together with gaffers tape.

[macdaddy]

The whole thing is held together with gaffers tape.

+t

it is still a great effort...

thanks for sharing, and it is great to see you around here.

welcome.