krock Posted March 27, 2013 Author Share Posted March 27, 2013 Cheers for the input guys, I'll look into getting a recorder of some sort then. Do you tend to go straight into them from a pedal board or mic up a cab and go in that way? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rct Posted March 27, 2013 Share Posted March 27, 2013 Cheers for the input guys, I'll look into getting a recorder of some sort then. Do you tend to go straight into them from a pedal board or mic up a cab and go in that way? Buy as much simultaneous and at the same time tracking as you can, this stuff is cheap and getting cheaper all the time. Then, record as many ways at once as you want or can, more is better when you get done. rct Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quapman Posted March 27, 2013 Share Posted March 27, 2013 rct makes a good point.. That zoom is a great little unit and while 8 tracks, it is only 2 simultaneous. And only one of them is Hi-Z. Depends on what you intend on doing. For me as a basement hack I can get by with 2. Although I would like to have the ability to mic my friends drum kit so I am forced to using a couple of mics at best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AXE® Posted March 27, 2013 Share Posted March 27, 2013 iPhone on a cardboard box. Or a bar stool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brad1 Posted March 27, 2013 Share Posted March 27, 2013 rct makes a good point.. That zoom is a great little unit and while 8 tracks, it is only 2 simultaneous. And only one of them is Hi-Z. Depends on what you intend on doing. For me as a basement hack I can get by with 2. Although I would like to have the ability to mic my friends drum kit so I am forced to using a couple of mics at best. That's exactly why I got the Zoom R16. I'm a drummer and I can record 8 tracks simultaneously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Izzy Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 In the end it has to do with what you're recording. A girl and a guitar is different than a punk band. A guy who plays piano and wants to use VSTi to create some symphonic masterpiece is similar to the girl who wants to make EDM using VSTi as well. Neither would ever have use for a mic. What are you recording, dude? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krock Posted March 28, 2013 Author Share Posted March 28, 2013 In the end it has to do with what you're recording. A girl and a guitar is different than a punk band. A guy who plays piano and wants to use VSTi to create some symphonic masterpiece is similar to the girl who wants to make EDM using VSTi as well. Neither would ever have use for a mic. What are you recording, dude? Im basically just recording guitar and bass atm because thats what I play. Im forming a band currently so I'd probably in the distant future want to be able to record a 5 piece hard rock/metal band. I had a look at these R8's and R16's but they're pretty expensive. I wouldn't be able to afford the recorder and then mic's as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L5Larry Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 it would be nice to hear updated info rather than scour the web for outdated info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaysEpiphone Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 The future is with recorders, rather than audio interfaces & computers, IMO. The only reason they ever had audio interfaces in the first place is because they didn't make good economical digital recorders at the time. You can send the tracks over to your computer and then mix them with cubase or whatever. No, this is wrong. It all depends on your application. That little stand-alone recorder you referring to does in fact contain an interface. As long as your using analog signal you will always need an interface to connect and convert it to a digital signal regardless of what system your using. Both types of systems have gotten better and will keep moving in that direction, the stand-alone recorder's (dedicated) will get smaller and will be moved/incorporated into other portable devices and will improve in quality as well (we're already seeing this last part). Non-dedicated system's will continue to advance with more function and more compatibility with other devices and protocol/format's until there is more universal/standard's making sharing easier. When your talking about recording a full band with lot's of mic/line input's you can't easily get around a size limitation that you need for plugging in all the cable's, I have 48 in and 26 out (balanced analog), there all crammed into 2 rack-space sized unit's. You can get a lot smaller if you just want 1 or 2 in's and out's and there are card's that fit internally on a computer's mother-board slot's that have brake-out cable's for lot's of in's and out's but I don't like cramming so much stuff in my CPU case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damian Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 Reaper, Sonar Producer, BFD drums, S.D. 2.0 drums, Korg D3200 (32 tracks), and quite a bit more..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kennis Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 I record a lot of ideas on my phone, then our frontman ignores them and we play his songs. no, seriously, we're pretty democratic. and I've got my own projects I neglect horribly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turtle Posted March 30, 2013 Share Posted March 30, 2013 Here's a recording question since we're on subject. What is a good drum program? I've seen Strike an love it. However I'm not using Protools. I have Logic Pro 9 with a focusrite Scarlett interface. Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaysEpiphone Posted April 2, 2013 Share Posted April 2, 2013 Here's a recording question since we're on subject. What is a good drum program? I've seen Strike an love it. However I'm not using Protools. I have Logic Pro 9 with a focusrite Scarlett interface. Any ideas? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiolgPqOHUw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbreslauer Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 being a drummer first and guitarist second, here's my drum program... not quite as nice sounding as my real drums are, but a heck of a lot easier to record... Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Izzy Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 I record a lot of ideas on my phone, I do that too...I will think of tunes at the oddest moments and then, if I don't record them, they are lost. I get them before falling asleep or just before I wake up...I'm dazed a lot of the times when they come. Glad someone else does this, I feel silly doing it; humming, "dadadada Daaaaa" into my phone, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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