Mobile Recording
I've edited the recording I made Tuesday night for the podcast. I should have it spruced up and ready to share soon. The guys shared some good info and I think it will make a good "first glimpse" of us for those non-Harrisburg bloggers who check it out.
I chose to record at the meetup using a fairly cheap Koss desktop mic (with integrated pre-amp) connected directly to my laptop's line in. This got the audio directly onto the computer, but the recording suffers a bit from "one-mic syndrome" and has greatly varying volume levels (most of which I should be able to clean up). I'm realizing now that I'm one part away from a much better solution. I could get a small 4-channel mixer for under $100 and connect my two higher-quality mics to it, as well as a stereo music/effects source (like a CD player or the laptop), and record the output of the mixer to my portable MiniDisc recorder. The recorded audio would have to go through an A->D conversion to get back onto a computer for editing and mastering, but it would have been recorded at such higher quality that I don't think it would matter.