home recording... yes...

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ok... well i'm new to the whole game of home recording and all... most i know how to use is a 4-track analog... and i've been using a couple of those for a while to pretty good effect but now i'm looking to upscale quite a bit since i have a whole band to work on recording with as opposed to just myself... point of the story we were looking at the fostex 16 track VF-16 digital recorder and are right now pretty close to buying it... since it ranges from 7-8 hundred it seems like a pretty good deal... i noticed though that it only records 8-tracks simultaneous unless you use "adat interface"... first i'm not to clear on what an adat interface is... second i've been looking around and have found other 16-track recorders that actually do 16 track simultaneous but look like shelfs rather than boards and i can't tell if you even plug into them the same or anything... if i could get some advice on something for a beginer to get in the same price range preferably 16 track digital or if the fostex is gonna be my best bet... thanks... later...
addamn
 
Fostex VF16

Check out this forum to learn all you want to know about the vf16.

http://pub15.ezboard.com/bvf16

Might get some answers to vf16 specific questions. They are great multitrakers for the money.:D

Jack
 
i've done a lot of searching...

and found that the general agreement is on the vf-16 as far as price for uses... but i'm lost on the whole ADAT thing... my desire is to be able to plug 16 different mic/amp cables into one piece of equip. and record onto 16 individual tracks... from my understanding via ADAT i would be plugging into 2 different pieces of equip. to obtain all 16 tracks... but what does that other piece have to be... and how would the two put 16 tracks onto one drive... if i'm just shooting in the wrong direction here... i dunno... help... later...
addamn
 
Under what circumstance do you need to plug in 16 separate instruments/microphones and record them all at once? I'm just curious more than anything, I'm sure your requirements are valid. However, in the realm of the home recording machines in the "under a couple grand" price range, that's not a typical need.

As you know from your 4-track experience, plugging something into the track 1 input does not mean that the signal has to be sent to track 1. It can be routed to track 2 while you listen to, and play along with, track 1. My board, for example, has XLR inputs on channel 1 and 2 only, so I use channel 1 most of the time, recording eventually to all 8 tracks, if warranted, but that's if I'm alone. If there are several people involved, then I'll go into several tracks at once, but typically only 4 or 5 tracks get recorded at once, and we fill in the rest individually, if needed.

One of the nice things about this forum is that you hear from people in different situations, and your's sounds interesting. Elaborate just a bit, if you would.
 
well...

i've had a lot of experience with recording alone and for that end the four tracks work fine... except that analog is pretty hard to send to a different medium and still have it sound clear... hence the upgrade to digital... as for the 16 track simultaneous... that's partly for the good point of knowing how... and mainly because i'm now recording original music with other musicians... and the drummer for the band i'm in is heavily into clear drum quality... the type of guy that given the chance will mic the drum to death to find the "perfect" sounds... what we were running previously was two analog 4 tracks on which he used one four track for drums and the other was used for bass and guitar... our problems were

1. that we couldn't sync the two four tracks back up due to the variance in the way tapes stretch... and...

2. our drummer was not even near content with the quality of the drums on the tracks...

as i'm sure any drummer will attest to 4 tracks is just not enough if you want to get really clean drums... mainly i think we'll be putting the drum on 6-7 tracks so that he can concentrate the sound of the different pieces on to seperate tracks... with 6 tracks designated for drums it leaves 1 for guitar and 1 for bass with vocals dubbed over later... and probably even the guitar and bass dubbed back over... and with 7 for drums it leaves 1 track for bass/guitar... which still works of course... you can play one guitar track and dub bass back over later easy enough... now me... i'm just fine with relatively dirty sounding recordings... in fact a little bit of dirt is preffered... but for the drummer... he want's as close to "perfect" as can be attained... so just using 8 tracks at once is good enough... but if we plan on expanding at all it couldn't hurt to know how that other 8 tracks can be obtained simultaneously... etc. etc. such and so forth...

besides... never know when the local ochestra is gonna want to coordinate something... *grin*... later...
addamn
 
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