should i go digital?

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I just got a peavey xr600f mixer 2 400 watt yamaha speaker cabinets all the plugs and wires, mics. It all sounds good live. I run my guitar into my 15 watt amp and then run the amp into the mixer. I want to record my voice and guitar so that the drummer can come up with some cool beats. The guy i got all the equipment from has a 4 track tape recorder for $250, and the thing has alot of fx's on it, but then i would have to convert it to digital so that i could burn cd's, so i was thinking of going digital. Any good digital recorders for around that price? And how do i hook it up through the mixer to record? And what other equipment should i get? Thanks for the help
 
Are you recording at home or at live gigs? If at home, why not use ur computer? If at gigs use a mini disk player, or mp3 player with recording capabilities and then record it onto the computer when you get home. Quality wont be great, but it'll still be ok.
 
recording live and digital verses analog

When I do a live or mobile recording Job.I simply run the recorder from the stereo out of the board.Most house mixers do not mind and some do, and you are tapping into their mix not yours.No matter what you use use mixer outs, many new mixers have RCA outs and ins .On Craigslist I see tascam digital recorders every day for the 200-250 range and are OK.I use several methods of late mostly a laptop with samplitude pro and waves plug-ins.I still use my old audition 1.0 by adobe it is cool edit pro just under adobe name.Great to do wave editing and even multi track recording.With a tube emulator program like T-Racks or Tascam Nomad mastering tube emulation it gets great results.
I love analog and I try to keep my signal in analog all the way to the PC mastering with tube emulation.
Also I still use the classic Tascam MK2 and let me tell you, I run a Behringer ultra voice pro and a behringer multi effects 100.00 the best. I got the voice pro rack mount for 40.00 on craigslist and I got my tascam 424MK2 for 80.00 and it is better than mint I wounder if the man ever took it out of the box, and I use it on some mobile recording jobs and home projects with the noise reduction it is in around 94 Db close to 100dB digital ,but with the warmth.
I just got back into portable analog and man I forgot just how good it sounds and the MK2 is the best out of the 3 models I owned all 3 at one time.
Even with ambient and film recordings I did on quiet passages I heard no noise, next I take the L-R outs of the MK2 to the 1/4 ins L-R on my sound card hit record and I add extra effect, waves mostly and master in samplitude using T-Racks I have put out pro CDs this way. I have an article I wrote on my music biz blog called do not toss out that cassette tape multi track. You can get a MK2 for around 100.00 I saw on e-bay they are selling for 175.00 I got mine for 80.00 and mint so I was happy.
You said your guitar player uses a 15 watt amp so I assume you are playing at home with that wattage.Many of the digital multi tracks even some higher end ones just sound to darn sterile. I advise getting a MK2 or MK1 not 3 it is made cheaper. or a old yamaha MT120 these have the best spec-ts of all portable recorders and you get analog warmth.Transfer to a PC easy if your card has 2 i/o available.
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I will be adding many articles that will help you and others. My article on do not toss out that cassette multi track can be read at.
http://www.digitalgoatee1.zoomshare.com/1.html
Hope this helped.
 
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