Hi
I'm into live-recording, and recently I recorded a lot of concert in a contemporary festival in Norway, using a Fostex VF160EX. This worked quite good. The Fostex is reliable, easy to use, portable, and is one of few recorders in this price-range that can offer 16-simultaneous recording tracks. The problem with it, hovewer, is that it takes too much time to transfer the tracks to PC. For the festival the 40-gig harddisk wasnt enough, and I had to dump programs. I spent a lot of time burning CD's, and after a while this is annoying.
So my question is if anybody has a good system for multitrack live-recording.. Some people I have talked to would prefer a laptop soundcard for this, but I'm not sure if a laptop would have the harddisk capacity to handle all these tracks. (16 track is necessary)
I am thinking more about a 24-track harddisk recorder like the Alesis HD24 or Fostex 2424LV, and put everything in a 10-rack unit. I already own 2' 8-channel ADAT-preamps (focusrite octopre and presonus digimax LT) and these would work with both hd-recorders. But I still need a way to monitor the tracks while recording, and for this it might be necessary with a mixer? Perphaps it would work with a patchbay that allows you to listen to 2 channels at a time, through the headphones? (i could route the analog outputs of the hd-recorder into a patchbay)
THe best alternative seems to be the Akai DPS24 + 1 8-channel Adat-preamp, this would give me everything I need with 20 inputs, monitoring, editing and wav-transport to PC.
I'm into live-recording, and recently I recorded a lot of concert in a contemporary festival in Norway, using a Fostex VF160EX. This worked quite good. The Fostex is reliable, easy to use, portable, and is one of few recorders in this price-range that can offer 16-simultaneous recording tracks. The problem with it, hovewer, is that it takes too much time to transfer the tracks to PC. For the festival the 40-gig harddisk wasnt enough, and I had to dump programs. I spent a lot of time burning CD's, and after a while this is annoying.
So my question is if anybody has a good system for multitrack live-recording.. Some people I have talked to would prefer a laptop soundcard for this, but I'm not sure if a laptop would have the harddisk capacity to handle all these tracks. (16 track is necessary)
I am thinking more about a 24-track harddisk recorder like the Alesis HD24 or Fostex 2424LV, and put everything in a 10-rack unit. I already own 2' 8-channel ADAT-preamps (focusrite octopre and presonus digimax LT) and these would work with both hd-recorders. But I still need a way to monitor the tracks while recording, and for this it might be necessary with a mixer? Perphaps it would work with a patchbay that allows you to listen to 2 channels at a time, through the headphones? (i could route the analog outputs of the hd-recorder into a patchbay)
THe best alternative seems to be the Akai DPS24 + 1 8-channel Adat-preamp, this would give me everything I need with 20 inputs, monitoring, editing and wav-transport to PC.