Tech: Studio 3

Subject: RE: Tech help: Studio 3
From: Darowyn
Date: 12 May 08 - 10:38 AM

As far as I recall the Opcode Studio series are MIDI interfaces, with no audio connections at all.
For recording spoken audio, you should be OK with a decent Microphone direct into your computer mic inputs. Very few mics are stereo, and one person talking is pretty much a mono source anyway. Mic inputs do analogue to digital conversion- not always very prettily, but they do it.
The next step up would be to go for a large diaphragm capacitor mic, which would need an interface or a small mixer to supply 48 volts phantom power, or you could be happier with a USB mic.
Having said all that, I would always include music and sound effects as well, so the story is just beginning.
A few references:-
Wikipedia on Opcode
An audio interface
USB Mic

Cheers
Dave

Subject: Tech help: Studio 3
From: EBarnacle
Date: 11 May 08 - 10:51 PM

I have been gifted with a Studio 3 interface from Opcode systems. The company went out of business in 1999 and I have been unable to find any schematics or instructions on line.

I intend to record audio into my computer to record spoken word in order to create CD's of my "folk" tales, most of which have been published in my magazine columns.

Is this unit necessary or useful? All of my computers have monaural microphone inputs built in. Do these inputs constitute a to d boards? Will the unit add to the quality of the data recording or the ability to edit it?