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| TruffleShuffle |
| Anyone got any links to some good ones? I'm gonna need to get one in the near future. |
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| TruffleShuffle |
| C'mon guys this is kind of urgent (I need to get one within the next month). |
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| TruffleShuffle |
| Ugh, just looked at some prices and they scare me. Are there any other ways of recording me mixing a set with good sound quality (like to make a promo CD with?) |
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| DJ Tranz |
| quote: | Originally posted by TruffleShuffle
Ugh, just looked at some prices and they scare me. Are there any other ways of recording me mixing a set with good sound quality (like to make a promo CD with?) |
Hey M8!
How much are you looking to spend on a DAT?
email me at [email protected]
Cheers... |
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| Nyquist_Theorem |
best approach in terms of bang-for-the-buck is a laptop with an external USB audio box. cheaper than a DAT, with infinitely more options in terms of editing etc. you wouldnt need all that flash a laptop, either, if you just want to record live mixes.
DAT = dead |
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| jdat |
| quote: | Originally posted by Nyquist_Theorem
best approach in terms of bang-for-the-buck is a laptop with an external USB audio box. cheaper than a DAT, with infinitely more options in terms of editing etc. you wouldnt need all that flash a laptop, either, if you just want to record live mixes.
DAT = dead |
So true
Now you do have the option of using an MD recorder but the quality is inferior compared to a DAT recorder but the price is quite decent.
Btw Toes In The Sand rulez ;) |
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| TruffleShuffle |
| quote: | Originally posted by jdat
So true
Now you do have the option of using an MD recorder but the quality is inferior compared to a DAT recorder but the price is quite decent.
Btw Toes In The Sand rulez ;) |
Hehe definitely.
What about a CD recorder? Someone was telling me about these and they look cheap and produce good sound quality. For the newbie that I am in recording devices, would I plug it in to the mixer or the amp? |
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| Nyquist_Theorem |
minidisc = bad because they use lossy compression
cd recorder = bad because 80 min max, and you kill a cd every time you hit record (unless youre using cdrws, which suck)
seriously mate, laptop it. or get an mp3 player with line in that will record to wav, like a nomad zen or something. |
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| b i n k u n |
are u trying to record a liveset somewhere other then home? if at home, u can just record onto your computer with any sound card that has a line-in. for better quality, look for sound cards that go up to 24bit/96kHz, although you really don't need to go that high. especially if you are compressing to mp3 later on. (for reference, CD quality is 16bit/44.1kHz)
if you are trying to record a liveset, a laptop would work great if you have one, or a lot of mp3 players now can record line-in straight into mp3. iriver makes some, check it out. hard to get levels right, but it works.
i'm not too fond of MD players and its compression, would rather go with a recordable mp3 player.
and as the others have said, DAT recorders are pretty much obsolete and the quality isn't that amazing anyway. Besides, you'd have to convert over to CD if you want to pass out CDs anyway. standalone CD recorders are a bitch to deal with at times, and a lot of them are very susceptible to bumps and stuff. |
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| Nyquist_Theorem |
^^ +1
would just point out (from experience) that a basic external sound box is much better than using a laptop's internal sound card because if you're recording a live DJ set the last thing in the world you want to worry about is setting the levels right - an internal sound card is usually crappy and noisy, meaning you need to set the record levels quite high to get around the noise floor, which risks distortion (and thus an entire set is ruined); a decent 24/96 external sound card (or internal PCI/PCMCIA/etc) will have a MUCH lower noise floor and thus you can set the levels much more conservatively, normalise after the fact, and still be hiss and hum free. :) |
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| djtrinity |
i am a big DAT supporter.....
no need to worry about any hang up or glitches .....
i have a tascam da20...hade for like 5-6 years i love it and record over the old dats many many times! |
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