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Help,, who makes (or made) the best porta studio w CD Burner.

Tajue17

Tajue17

Jun 11, 2005
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#1
involved in a new side project and in a pinch I want to try to find a used but in good condition portable digital recorder with a Built in CD Burner something user friendly too,,, the CD Burner is important and pretty much what this is being used for so people can leave with their homework on CD.

what should I search around for???? thanks for any info, T
 
#2
Don't use recordable CDs much anymore
Convenient for a car ride home, but I can also download to a smartphone and play it in the car.
Faster to download than to burn a CD. And honestly usually more reliable.
Make an ad hoc network to let people download when there.
Use thumbdrives
Free email, and drop boxes are all over the internet.
Your internet provide probably gives you free gigs.

Smartphones can mix and record, or you can get one of the handheld recorders that have very good good recording capabilities these days.
 
#3
While I agree with the above post re: the convenient functionality of modern digital recording devices, if the op really wants a PortaStudio, alright with me. :)


OP- If you are looking for CD, I can recommend the Tascam DP-01 FXCD, it has a burner, built in FX (which aren't bad, really), and a USB out for file transfers to computer. Cheap used.

A newer alternative would be the Tascam DP-03, which has a burner, USB out, and an SD card slot. Not as cheap, but certainly newer. :D
Each of these only records 2 tracks at a time.
If this is a problem, there's also the DP-24 and DP-32, which record 8 tracks at a time, with either 24 or 32 track playback.

Are any of these the best? I do not know. But, Tascam does have some decent mic pres, and a solid reputation.
I used a DP-01 FXCD for years, with much success and happiness.
 
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#5
Yeah, are you just trying to do stereo recordings of rehearsals? You could get one of the Zoom H series for cheap to do that. Take it home, pop the files in your laptop, open them in Audacity (free), convert to mp3, and then email them out. Shouldn't really take any more time than burning a CD for each person in the band, and then you don't have to buy and keep track of weekly CDs (also better for the environment). Another option would be everyone having a usb drive and you just load each one up at the end of practice.
 
#6
IMO the Zoom R-8 and R-24 are very very good for the price. But only sd-cards...
CDs are dead.
You simply could copy the SD-card ore use one of the above mentioned procedures. The single tracks are wave-files, so you could just use them in any DAW without modifying them.
 
#8
I would also add that for stereo room recordings of practices, it's pretty tricky to get the levels optimized on the recording itself. I like to dump the stereo track into Audacity first, normalize it to like -3db or something (to leave some room for processing), then load it into Reaper so I can add a bit of EQ/compression if I actually want to do anything serious with it. So being able to burn copies at the end of practice may or may not be ideal anyway.
 
#10
I record every rehearsal with a zoom r16. Grab the SD card out after rehearsal, do some quick level adjustments and eq and then post it to SoundCloud so people can download it. It works very well.

If you have your heart set on cd burner technology... the Roland V Studios were very good but make sure you buy one that comes with the optional scsi cd burner already.... you won't find a replacement anywhere.
 

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