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jmandoman
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I'm looking for ideas and advice.
I've got a home studio with an expanded VS880 but the small 540m hard drive. I back up to 100m Zips via the SCSI interface and mix down to either minidisc on a portable Sharp minidisc recorder or direct into my laptop/Cakewalk Pro 9. I burn CDs using Adaptec software to the CD-R/RW drive in the laptop. I've recorded, mixed, and created my band's demo CD with this setup successfully.
I like the sound quality I get with the VS880 and am happy with the CDs I've produced. However, the VS880 is limited in the number of tracks I can record simultaneously and is a bit of a pain to take 'on the road' and set up for recording gigs and impromptu practices.
I'm considering the Alesis LX20 as my portable solution. My thinking is that I can put it in a small rack case and cable it up to my Mackie 1604 vlz pro at gigs and practices without much fuss. Forty minutes recording on a S-VHS tape would pretty much capture a set.
The unknowns:
While I need 10 tracks to cover all the channels we use on the Mackie for gigs, will I be able to survive with 8 on the LX20?
Will I be able to move the tracks to the VS880 to utilize the features/FX I've come to know and love there?
I've got about $500 I can spend on this. From the activity I've seen on eBay and Digibid I can get an LX20 between $350 and $500. Is there a better solution within my budget?
I've got a home studio with an expanded VS880 but the small 540m hard drive. I back up to 100m Zips via the SCSI interface and mix down to either minidisc on a portable Sharp minidisc recorder or direct into my laptop/Cakewalk Pro 9. I burn CDs using Adaptec software to the CD-R/RW drive in the laptop. I've recorded, mixed, and created my band's demo CD with this setup successfully.
I like the sound quality I get with the VS880 and am happy with the CDs I've produced. However, the VS880 is limited in the number of tracks I can record simultaneously and is a bit of a pain to take 'on the road' and set up for recording gigs and impromptu practices.
I'm considering the Alesis LX20 as my portable solution. My thinking is that I can put it in a small rack case and cable it up to my Mackie 1604 vlz pro at gigs and practices without much fuss. Forty minutes recording on a S-VHS tape would pretty much capture a set.
The unknowns:
While I need 10 tracks to cover all the channels we use on the Mackie for gigs, will I be able to survive with 8 on the LX20?
Will I be able to move the tracks to the VS880 to utilize the features/FX I've come to know and love there?
I've got about $500 I can spend on this. From the activity I've seen on eBay and Digibid I can get an LX20 between $350 and $500. Is there a better solution within my budget?
