recording live rehearsals

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I'm currently running guitar tracks pro 3 on my computer. Although it does me fine as all we do is record our rehearsal I was wondering if there's a cheap way to record using 4 mics and having them on seperate tracks as at the minute I have them running through a small mixer but have no control over the recorded session as it's all on 1 track. You get the idea I'm sure???
 
after doin g some research i was wondering if the M-Audio Delta 44 Soundcard Audio Interface 24bit 96KHz would be suitable. anyone used one of these??
 
I am on a limited budget so this may not be the best answer, but this solution works for me.

When we rehearse, I have the kick mic'ed, and each amp mic'ed. We run all of this through our PA mixer. When I want to record a rehearsal, I just take a monitor mix out to the mac, and record a track in GarageBand. You don't get a CD out of it, and there is often piles of clipping but you can a good representation of the basics.
 
The delta 44 doesnt have pre-amps, it just has 4 line level inputs. You can't plug mics directly into it, you need pre's. You need some kind of interface with pre's, the Alesis Multimix 8 is a firewire interface with 4 pre's and 4 line-in channels. When you record with it, it sends all 8 distinct channels to your DAW. It does exactly what you need, and I don't think you'll find a cheaper option.

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/?sku=630151
 
Bought a m audio usb quatro which sounds ok taking a bit of figuring out though but i'll get there. Got it for 30 quid on ebay so nothing lost if it doesn't work out. not done much but seems to record ok with mics plugged straight in. Thanks for the help will start saving for the alesis
 
So the quattro records but not well. I guess this is due to lack of pre amps. Where do I go from here. All the pre amps I've looked at are expensive. Should I sell the quattro and just buy a portable 8 track. All I wanna do is for our band to play and have some record of our jams for new songs but this seems to be taking the fun out of it. not cool
 
My suggestion is a Presonus Firebox (or if on a budget, an inspire 1394)

Plug two mics (not 4!) into the mixer, pan one hard left and one hard right. Run the output of the mixer into the non-xlr stereo inputs on the device. Plug the other two mics directly into the XLR ports on the firebox/inspire.

hope that helps!
 
Got it sussed. just plugging the line outs from the guitar amp, bass amp and p.a drect into the quattro then put a powered mic I already had onto the drums and it actually sound alright and the genius we have in our jam sessions are now on hard disc forever. Except sometimes the computer will tell me it's run out of audio space??? Is there somewhere I can designate more space to the audio
 
I've switched the soundcard to asio then when I did another recording it sounds like it's in slow motion!! sounds really weird! anybody any ideas???? The reason i switched to asio as it only recognises the card a 1in i out in mme. Hope this makes sense
 
Running out of audio space == out of drive space? Get more hd space. If you have a big empty drive, make sure you're using it for everything. Ie, make sure you dont have some temp files going to your almost-full C: drive or whatever.

IDK if this is your prob with the slow motion, but I've recorded stuff at higher sample rates, then played it back with something that thought it was 44.1kHz, which makes it slo-mo for obvious reasons.
 
how about buying a cassette 4-track (tascam 424 mkII/III or 464)?you can record 4 tracks at once and then mix it down to a stereo file via 'puter soundcard...it's absolutley ok for rehearsals
 
pehjott said:
how about buying a cassette 4-track (tascam 424 mkII/III or 464)?you can record 4 tracks at once and then mix it down to a stereo file via 'puter soundcard...it's absolutley ok for rehearsals
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I got the cheaper 4 track Tascam. can I also do this? I want to record whole band live.
 
I bought a tascam 424 mk 2 and it's perfect. Sold the m audio quattro it was kak!! old skool rules
 
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