Laptop or Multitracker!?!? strange question i know

[lurgan liar]

I have recently been asked to record my frineds punk garage band...

I use my PC (SONAR) to record myself usually ...But this will not be possible to record these guys as i will need some means of recording their drummer...

So the question is how will I be able to record their drummer???...the only 2 viable options i can see is if i were to use a laptop ...or else a multi tracker....

I have neither of these ...and i am on a limited budget of about £100 / $200

I can get a lend of my friends Laptop which doesn't have a firewire connection ...so i'd need to get a sound card with USB connection for it ( can anyone recommend one in my price range)

Or I could maybe buy a 4 / 8 track digital recorder that can transfer the .wav files to my PC so i can mix them in Sonar....

If anyone has any better solutions to my problem i'd be really greatful if you could help ...(they are only looking a demo cd so it doesn't have to be of amazing sound quailty - however i still would like it to sound as good as possible for the limited pricebudget i have)

Thanks in advance

 

[Kevin Deschwazi]

Even if you got hold of a laptop you'd still need a multi input USB or firwewire interface to record drums and I don't think your budget would stretch to that.

Only thing I can think of for that money is a cassette multitracker. You could try ebay for a little digital multitracker but I doubt you'd get any more than 2 simultaneous imputs for £100.

I'd just scour ebay, you never know.

EDIT: I couldn't help sneaking a peak myself these might work for you, don't know what they'll end up going for though:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=15199&item=7327527712&rd=1

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=15199&item=7327284275&rd=1

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=21145&item=7521297831&rd=1

 

[ds21]

Are you saying that you don't have enough inputs for drums?

If you do, why not just bring your whole rig, I know it's a pain but I do it quite often, it helps that I don't have to bring my 21" CRT, but still a pain...

 

[lurgan liar]

here is the equipment i have .....

PC - with just the factory sound card that came with it (need a sound card that has multiple inputs)

An Alesis 8 channel mixer

A 100 W Marshall Amp

A Boss GT-6 Multi FX Pedal

a Shure SM 58

Am considering getting a MXL 990 and a Shure SM 57

What would you suggest I do .....