Starting Up in tape recording...

[myblackass]

Hi everybody,

I've been doing live sound and playing in bands for a good 5 or 6 years now, and that's included work in many recording environments, from pro-studios to more amateur ones, and from 4-track recordings to radio sessions.

I'd like to start doing my own home recordings, for making pretty good-quality demos. Due to being somewhat of a luddite, and due to a personal preferance, I'd like to do analogue tape recordings, most probably starting off with 8-tracks. What would be a good, reasonably-priced (ie, pretty cheap!) 8-track recorder for me to buy to get started with, and would I need any extra stuff to allow me to mix it after recording? I also take it that an 8-track would allow me to overdub, provided I have tracks left over?

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

Richard x

 

[rayc]

Where to from here?

Go to this link & repost your question/concern/problem.
The people there are specifically interested in related matters:
http://www.homerecording.com/bbs/forumdisplay.php?f=21

 

[ssscientist]

Due to being somewhat of a luddite

If you could find your way out of your luddite-ness juuuuuusst a little bit, something like this would probably fill the bill just fine. It would let you get on with the process of making music, not worrying about hookups and cables and tapes and shit.

It has a USB port so what you record to the Compact Flash card can be brought into a PC for burning to CD which neatly sidesteps the issue of having a built in CD burner.



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