I Need Help!

[cranberryhills]

I am a composer but I also love to record and edit others music. I have been asked from numerous people to do recording of their bands. Some of which are the local high school. They have like a 50 piece band, 30 voice choir and like a 10 piece jazz band. I researched and thought that the best thing I could buy to accompany the fact that I need to record about 4-5 mics simotaneously. But all the digital models I looked at only have 2 xlr mic inputs. I was looking at the Br 1180 specifically. Is there any way that I could have more than 2 inputs at a time, even if they had to be on the same channel. Like I was thinking of hooking up a mixer to one of the xlr inputs and then feeding out mics then through the mixer, but then everymic thourhg that mixer would record on one track. Is that possible? If not, what would be a good way, under 1000$ that I could record more than 4 things at a time, and what would be a good way to do this?

Thanks

 

[Rochey]

maybe doing a live mix would be your best bet.

Get a small mixer with a stereo out, and a minidisk/dat recorder.

Get as many mics as possible (beg 'n borrow) - pan them out, do a couple of runs and get a stereo mix...

and hit record.


Recording so many people at once is hard enough as it is... the only way you'd really be able to record as many parts are your talking about is to get a mixer and a 8in soundcard such as the 1010... but thats costly

Anyway, i'd let other people throw in their ideas, before you take my word for it

Cheers

R

 

[Chris Shaeffer]

Cranberry,

Wow, that sounds like fun- though certainly a challenge.

First of all, you said under $1000. Gotcha. Now we need a little more info to get you going within that budget.

Do you already have a mixer and mics? Is it a stereo mixer, a 4-bus, 8-bus, a recording console were you have control over each output? Does it have enough pres and phantom power to handle all the mics that you need? Do you have all the mics that you need?

Secondly, do you want a stand-alone recording device or all the extras you need to record into a computer. There are plenty of (relatively) inexpensive computer interfaces that will give you more than 2 inputs, but do you have a computer that you can use for the task? If you already have the computer, mixer, and mics you could get a rippin' system for $1000.

Stand-alone devices, however, a more portable and tend to be easier to setup and use. They do crash, but not like computers do, eh? I'm not as familiar with them, though, so maybe there are others around who can help you with that option.

Good luck!
Chris