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04-25-2005, 07:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Phoenix, AZ, Southern Utah | | | Got all the fancy expensive stuff...Help me with something simple
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O.K here's the deal, I have Cakewalk Producer ediition an M-Audio sound card, T.C Electronic stuff...blah blah blah....I have been recentely called back to play and do some recording with old friends in an old band.
My dillema...I picked up a cassett recorder at "Radio Shack (little voice recorder thing for $49.00) to just record our practices so I can work on my bass lines during the week and beleive it or not it works fine at low volumes thru an old stereo I have in my garage. My question is .... There has got to be someting better.
Iv'e looked at i-pod and at the "Sony mini disk"........is there another way to go? This isn't for recording and mastering, it's just for me to practice with....maybe a mic imput or even a descent built in mic. It needs to be digital....maybe a flashcard or something (tired of fastforwarding the tape if you know what I mean) Maybe something I can use to download to my computer for future reference.
I just want to set it in the back of the room and record practices like I do with this little cassett I have.......There has got to be something out there that will record digitally and not cost me a fortune.....Maybe I ask for too much? Thanx for listening to me rammmmmble.... |
04-25-2005, 08:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Kansas City | | | My cheap-but-great field recording rig of choice is the Creative Nomad Jukebox 3. You can get them used on ebay, they have tens of gigs of storage, they record in a few different levels of mp3 or in up to DAT quality wav, and have an optical input jack. They also have firewire for quick transfers. I have used minidisk and cassette in the past and will never bother with either again after getting this. |
04-26-2005, 02:04 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Phoenix, AZ, Southern Utah | | | The "Nomad Jukebox 3" is really hard to find right now, is the "Zen or whatever the same thing? I dont see a mic imput on any of the new ones. |
04-26-2005, 02:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: South East Kent, England. | | | Actually if you got a cheap Minidisc, you can set the thing to throw a track marker every 5 minutes or so. That way you can skip ahead or back 5 minutes at a time, making searching for things pretty easy. Couple that with a little stereo mic or a boundary mic (flat ones, powered by a battery) will work fine as a notepad. Either that or you go up in scale and price and look at the palm recorders: Zoom PS-04 and similar. These use media cards to store the audio in MP3 format. They also provide some level of multi-track and effects if you ever needed that. The benefit of a media card approach is that you can yank it out of the player / recorder and use a card reader to squirt it directly into the PC. No need for extra digital-analogue-digital-analogue conversions.
Other similar products: Edirol R1, Korg PX4R, Tascam Pocketstudio 5
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hahahah just put ur computer mic at the speaker when u play it and record it on windows sound recorder or sumthing
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04-26-2005, 05:51 PM
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Originally Posted by msquared My cheap-but-great field recording rig of choice is the Creative Nomad Jukebox 3. You can get them used on ebay, they have tens of gigs of storage, they record in a few different levels of mp3 or in up to DAT quality wav, and have an optical input jack. They also have firewire for quick transfers. I have used minidisk and cassette in the past and will never bother with either again after getting this. |
How decent is the sound, and how easy are they to use? thanks |
04-26-2005, 10:40 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Phoenix, AZ, Southern Utah | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by MKS Actually if you got a cheap Minidisc, you can set the thing to throw a track marker every 5 minutes or so. That way you can skip ahead or back 5 minutes at a time, making searching for things pretty easy. Couple that with a little stereo mic or a boundary mic (flat ones, powered by a battery) will work fine as a notepad. Either that or you go up in scale and price and look at the palm recorders: Zoom PS-04 and similar. These use media cards to store the audio in MP3 format. They also provide some level of multi-track and effects if you ever needed that. The benefit of a media card approach is that you can yank it out of the player / recorder and use a card reader to squirt it directly into the PC. No need for extra digital-analogue-digital-analogue conversions.
Other similar products: Edirol R1, Korg PX4R, Tascam Pocketstudio 5 | Thamx guy's......Think I have it figured out..... |
04-26-2005, 11:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Kansas City | | | They're easy to use and sound as good as what you're putting into them. I've had very good luck both with a standalone mic preamp and mics and with running a digital signal from a digital mixer directly into it with no analog step. Awesome little unit. |
04-27-2005, 10:01 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: South East Kent, England. | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Highpines Thamx guy's......Think I have it figured out..... | What are you going for?
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hahahah just put ur computer mic at the speaker when u play it and record it on windows sound recorder or sumthing
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