Hey, I'm Dominica from London. I've been aware of HomeRecording.com for a while now but i've only just now joined the community. Great to be here! in terms of recording, i'm a bit of a mess and don't really know what i'm doing! I started out back when it seemed really simple with a Yamaha MT3X 4 track cassette recorder, Yamaha SY77 synth Realistic PZM and Shure SM58 mics doing simple demos of songs written on a Piano.. I've been using Ableton for the last 10 years and i'm feeling like i want to get back to a DAW-less way of working again.. I'm really looking forward to learning about the simple and perhaps the not so simple recording techniques from this community. Thanks Folks.
Hey Rich, Yes, i do miss that way of working where i'm not staring at a computer screen all the time and have literally thousands of different options for what i might want to to. I don't want to totally get rid of a computer of course because having a DAW as you say will have it's benefits. But during the actual recording process when i'm using a computer i am just very distracted in lots of different ways. So that element of the process has to change for me. I've done a bit of reserch and i have seen the Zoom Livetrak 12, and i was also looking at the smaller Zoom R20 only yesterday, but i will be getting a Tascam Model 12 in the next week or so, and so my recording set up will be changing to something a bit less distracting! Also, i really like the idea of having less tracks to work with, it means that i have to make economic musical decisions which is something i'm sure those of us who started out on 4 track cassette recorders know a thing or two about! Thanks.Hi Dominica,
You can certainly go DAW free. Both Tascam and Zoom are still making recorders that essentially are like the old cassette recorders, but using SD memory cards in place of tape cassettes. Everything in still in the digital domain. You can get something like the Model 12, or the Livetrak 12, which gives you direct recording and mixing. They have basic effects, EQ, reverb, compression.
If you want more effects, they also make more full featured recorders like the Zoom R24 or the Tascam DP24 and DP32.
The nice thing about them is that you can record with them, and then move tracks to a DAW for mixdown if you need to at a later time. I save the SD cards just like audio tapes, since you can get them for about the same prices as we spent on a cassette.
Hey...welcome kayakzkh !! You're not alone. Lots of old geezers here....including me. Lots of Reaper users too...so whatever questions come up......just ask.I'm just an old geezer with a couple of Alesis HD24's that I am currently trying to configure into a 48 track system. Any editing will be done on my desktop with Reaper. Just doing this for my own personal use and fun, to record friends and such.
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