Im a complete newbie who needs some help

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I need to create a home recording 'station' - to digitally record some guitar rock....

I want it to be under $500
it needs to be able to mix atleast 4 tracks, it needs to record digitally reasonably well... i plan on using mostly used equipment i can get off ebay or scrounge

I want suggestions on
-mics
-mixer
-recording device and make (DAT or mini disk? - has to be digital)


help is greatly appricated !
 
You should look in the individual forums for the different components. Do you have a computer or anything to start with?

At your price range you will probably end up with:

Used digital multitrack
SM57

Your home stereo for monitoring.
 
Well

i got a decent computer athalon 1.4ghz to do the editing on for now...right now i jsut need something to be able to sound from a mixer onto something digital that i can transfer to my computer to edit....

jsut looking for advice for mics / mixer / dat etc
 
If you already have a soundcard, all you need is a preamp (and love). Do the rest on your computer. For free.
 
the problem is tho...

the computer isnt portable at all..i really cant drag the thing around... and i need somethign that can input 4 tracks do a little bit of level mixing, and then dump it to some form of digital media: i think my best bet would be some sort of mixer hooked up to a mini disk.... but im not sure..... and i dont know which

mics
mixer
and mini disk to buy
 
A minidisk will only get you stereo tracks. And a laptop and almost any USB soundcard will also probably be limited to two tracks of audio simultaneously.

A laptop and a MOTU 828 Firewire interface would be most excellent and portable, but $$$$.

I suspect within the next year there will be more (and less expensive) Firewire-based external audio interfaces like all the USB ones that are out now... and also USB 2.0 devices are now beginning to appear on the market.

So that leaves you with something like a digital multitracker like the ones made by Korg, Boss, Akai, Fostex, Teac... most of these have digital ports that make it fairly painless to port to a computer later on.
 
ok....

so i cant run mics through a mixer then run the mixer output into a mini disk recorder? that would cost less than one of those all in one recorders -
 
You seem to want to get a mixer and mini-disk. Maybe you should get them... ;)
 
If you want us to recomend anything please tell us exactly what you have and what you want to accomplish.

If you just want good live recordings from a mixer than DAT is the best option for sound quality.
 
hmm..

im not sure what I want.....heheh..... i want something cheap - but sounds good... ive looked at the mixer / recorder units and all the not incredibly expensive ones are very limited as far as how much they can record in one go... they also are a little to complicated for my tast - i think....because i do a post edit on my computer.....

it would seem cheaper to buy equivelant components to those all in one units then to buy one of themm - ie, buy a mini disk and a mixer .... or a mixer and a DAT...

but i have no idea if im totally wrong..and ihave no idea what brand of mics / mixer / storage i should look at
 
What sound quality are you looking for?

Jeff Buckley was indeed very :cool:.
 
You can certainly record the output of a mixer into a minidisk recorder, but only in stereo -- you are limited to two channels. So you have to mix at the moment of recording rather than afterwards. It's OK, people did that for decades; only in the 60's did multiple tracks become commonplace.

For the price of a reasonable small mixer ($200 - 1000) and a minidisk recorder ($250?) you can get a digital multitracker like the Boss BR-8 or the Roland VS-840 and get 8 separate tracks, a built in mixer, built-in effects...
 
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