Stand alone >8 tracks?

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Roel

Roel

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Yesterday it good in my head to look for a portable solution that allows recording more than 8 tracks at a time... (Not that I got money to buy that. First mics, some additional processing, and everything else, than maybe a major upgrade as this. In a year, maybe 2, or 3 or...)

So what I noticed is that there are not that many options; there is the Roland VS2480, very nice. The akai dps16 with 10 tracks, not enough. Then the akai dps24, with 20 tracks sim. recording. VERY nice... And the Yamaha AW4416, also very nice. And that's about it. There is offcourse also that tascam-alien-thing, but it's that ugly that I won't consider it. :D

Then there's the more expensive solution, standalone recorders and a seperate mixer. Still portable if you put it in a flightcase...

Am I overlooking some products? Or will I end up just getting another VS to hook up with my VS1880... (I think this would be the cheapest solution. Get a smaller used VS-station, and sync them. Comments on that? There's no word sync etc for these things. How bad is that?)
 
Hey Roel, how much money do you intend on spending!!??
 
All I have... :D

By the way, how much did you spend allready?? Huh?? :p

Seriously, 8 tracks is not enough to track a band, and it just amazes me that there aren't more portable things that can handle >8 tracks. And the price difference between these standalone things and the other seperate recorders, seperate mixer, seperate whatever really knocked me out. A digital mixer and one of those digital recorders would cost me alot more.
 
Use a submixer for the drums and then you will free more tracks going live.

Ive only got two inputs on my machine and I get ok results recording with two matching mics. But more would be Ideal.
 
darrin, you lose alot of control over your drums when you do it that way....while it may produce acceptable results for you, it REALLY REALLY helps to have drums on at least 4 tracks (kick, snare, 2 overheads)....
 
Well we cant very well use the mixer for the other instruments.If two tracks are used for the overheads and one for the bass drum and one for the snare thats four tracks alone.

as much as I hate to comprimize somethings got to give.

some times Ive heard of dudes making thier own loops by getting the sound they want from individual drums and putting together the drum part that way.

I use electronic drums myself so the whole concept is different here.

maybe If a dummie track is done first with the mixer then after the other tracks are bounced down to two you can then do a drum take useing more tracks.

Thats the only solution I can come up with short of getting the 24 channel mixer with the HD24.

I know where to get a yamaha o2r for 2000.00 as soon as the HD24 ships(or if it ships)
 
Yamaha O2r and a seperate 24-track... Aaaah... I think I'd prefer this above those workstations. (And it's still kinda portable, I guess. Just more cables and 1 more flightcase...)

On the VS1880, I can have 6 tracks for drums. Which is good for kick, snare, 2 OH, and stereo toms-submix. (Or 3 toms and mono OH)

But I want to have full control... And be able to experiment, 2 mics on snare, stuff like that. Cheapest solution is getting a used VS890 along with it, I guess. This way I can record 14 tracks at the time. (Or VS880, or 840 or...)
 
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