best home recorder for professional sounding cd's

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I have some experience recording with a reel to reel and a fostex 8 track a few years back so I am not new to it, however now I want to make home recordings and duplicate them to hand out,sell and use for promotion. I want it to sound professional. I am willing to spend what it takes. I was considering a tascam 24 track but now I am not too sure, I think I need something even better. I may have to spend $1000-$2000 it looks like. I have a home computer of course, but I would prefer a stand alone recorder. After recording at home, I would have copies made professionally with a cover with nice graphics. It will be mostly simple voice and guitar (acoustic and electric) with multiple overdubs and electric piano. Excellent quality is the most important factor. Suggestions are appreciated. thanks
 
Pretty much any recorder should work for the quality your looking for. Just make sure you have excellent room treatment, excellent mics, excellent mic pre's, and excellent ears.
 
The recorder (or DAW, if using a computer) is only 1 part of the equation. Mics, room,mixing, mastering ....
 
billymemphis said:
I have some experience recording with a reel to reel and a fostex 8 track a few years back so I am not new to it, however now I want to make home recordings and duplicate them to hand out,sell and use for promotion. I want it to sound professional. I am willing to spend what it takes. I was considering a tascam 24 track but now I am not too sure, I think I need something even better. I may have to spend $1000-$2000 it looks like. I have a home computer of course, but I would prefer a stand alone recorder. After recording at home, I would have copies made professionally with a cover with nice graphics. It will be mostly simple voice and guitar (acoustic and electric) with multiple overdubs and electric piano. Excellent quality is the most important factor. Suggestions are appreciated. thanks
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If you already have a good PC then you would be better off spending the money on a good interface instead of trying to get an all-in-one machine that you mix on also. you will have much better control mixing in your DAW. Just get a decent full-duplex interface. You really need 24 simultaneous tracks? Most interfaces come in 8 and 16 - there are certainly interfaces with more but you jump up in cost quite a bit.
 
arcadeko said:
If you already have a good PC then you would be better off spending the money on a good interface instead of trying to get an all-in-one machine that you mix on also. you will have much better control mixing in your DAW. Just get a decent full-duplex interface. You really need 24 simultaneous tracks? Most interfaces come in 8 and 16 - there are certainly interfaces with more but you jump up in cost quite a bit.
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Ok, I have no experience recording thru a computer, so if you elaborate a little I would appreciate it. What is a "full-duplex interface"? No, I do not need 24 tracks, 8 or 12 is plenty fro what I need.can you give me a few name brands or model numbers I can look at on the net to get started? thanks
 
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