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Small recorder for rehearsals
Posted: 1 Jul 2004 9:01 am
by David Doggett
I need to get an inexpensive small recorder of some kind (tape, MP3?) and mic to tape new songs at rehearsals so that I can practice them at home. I don't need high quality sound or multiple tracks. I just need to be able to put the mic in the middle of the room to capture something I can play along with at home. I don't have a computer in my music room, so if it is not tape, I need to be able to patch the device into a mixer or receiver to play it back. Does anyone have any advice on recorders and mics for this?
Posted: 1 Jul 2004 9:49 am
by Marc Friedland
David,
Even with all the advanced electronic equipment available today, I still find a small cassette recorder very valuable. If I want to tape a rehearsal I just bring along my little Panasonic that takes regular sized cassettes and press "record". These cassette player/recorders and the cassettes they use are still available at Radio Shack and some Pharmacy stores like Walgreen's, Sav On, etc., for about $25.
-- Marc
Posted: 1 Jul 2004 11:25 am
by John Floyd
David
HAve you looked into the portable Sony Mini Discs The newer ones have 4X (MDLP4)compression, so using a 80 minute Disc, you can get 320 minutes of record time. They are also eraseable and have CD quality sound and NO TAPE NOISE
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Posted: 1 Jul 2004 4:16 pm
by Brad Sarno
The minidisk recorders are pretty handy and sound halfway decent for compressed digital audio.
Brad Sarno
Posted: 2 Jul 2004 6:20 am
by Lee Costley
I like the Zoom Palm-02. It is a digital 3 track recorder about the size of a pack of cigaretts. It records to smart memory cards which are reusable & doubles as my headphone/practice amp. It has several good sounding effects (I just can't practice without reverb) & even has several complete backing tracks for practice with a band. Input & headphone jacks are 1/4"(no adapters necessary)& has a good quality condenser mic built in.
The downside is, it eats batteries, but I use mine with an ac adapter without batteries & never have to worry about them. You can find these things on ebay, like I did, for about $100.00.
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