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GaZZwa
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Ho ho ho, you guys must be sick of this kind of thing.
Evening everyone, my name's Gareth and after seriously considering getting a 4 track or 8 track for some months now, I've finally got down to some research, which has brought me to here. So far, the main website has been a great help in explaining much of the technical terms and dumbing down home recording for me. Now, I need a little bit of advice on where to start.
I play in a 3 piece band and at the moment we're simply recording audio onto a digital camera. The quality is shockingly poor, but it's only for our own benefit so I'm not particularly bothered. I also write and play a huge amount of music by myself, and aside from recording my own and my band's stuff properly, I'd really like to experiment with sounds and things like that. Now, I have a maximum budget of around £350, and am currently wondering whether I should get an analogue 4 or 8 track (the Tascam 414 MKII seems really cool, at a very low price as well), or if I should go for a bit more and get a digital 8 track (such as the Fostex MR8S).
Obviously, with a digital 8 track I'd be getting a much higher sound quality, as well as a lot more variety, but it's more money and from what I've read I get the impression I'll need to spend more money on various pieces of software to edit and mix my tracks. Is this the case, and if so is it all worth it?
Or, for a beginner is something like the Tascam 414 MKII a great place to start? I know something like that would be perfect for my solo recordings, but I'm not so sure about my band. Thanks in advance.
Evening everyone, my name's Gareth and after seriously considering getting a 4 track or 8 track for some months now, I've finally got down to some research, which has brought me to here. So far, the main website has been a great help in explaining much of the technical terms and dumbing down home recording for me. Now, I need a little bit of advice on where to start.
I play in a 3 piece band and at the moment we're simply recording audio onto a digital camera. The quality is shockingly poor, but it's only for our own benefit so I'm not particularly bothered. I also write and play a huge amount of music by myself, and aside from recording my own and my band's stuff properly, I'd really like to experiment with sounds and things like that. Now, I have a maximum budget of around £350, and am currently wondering whether I should get an analogue 4 or 8 track (the Tascam 414 MKII seems really cool, at a very low price as well), or if I should go for a bit more and get a digital 8 track (such as the Fostex MR8S).
Obviously, with a digital 8 track I'd be getting a much higher sound quality, as well as a lot more variety, but it's more money and from what I've read I get the impression I'll need to spend more money on various pieces of software to edit and mix my tracks. Is this the case, and if so is it all worth it?
Or, for a beginner is something like the Tascam 414 MKII a great place to start? I know something like that would be perfect for my solo recordings, but I'm not so sure about my band. Thanks in advance.
