Patent ID: 8301076

Claim:
A system for distributed audio recording and collaborative mixing comprising: two or more wireless devices capable of audio recording, wherein said two or more wireless devices are located near a sound source to be recorded; each wireless device of said two or more wireless devices having an interface allowing at least start and stop audio recording and streaming operations; each wireless device of said two or more wireless devices being configured to transmit a recorded audio stream to a mixer component; and said mixer component configured to combine two or more audio streams received from said two or more wireless devices into a multi-channel audio stream by synchronizing in time said two or more audio streams, said synchronization being performed based upon one or more clearly distinguishable events present in all said two or more audio streams; wherein at least one clearly distinguishable event of said one or more clearly distinguishable events is provided by a change in an audio signal amplitude at a given frequency range by a value exceeding a pre-defined amplitude threshold within a time period not exceeding a pre-defined duration.