Hi! Earlier, my friend told me that he has a friend, who has a studio... And guess what? He told me that he uses a VCR to record? Is this possible? Is the quality good? fair? It sounds pretty weird to me though, but never tried it. But would like to give it a try.. hehehe.. Anyways, just wanna share from what I heard from my friend.. Tell me if this unit good enough to use for recording vocals hook via mixer
sure. why not.
Make sure it's a Stereo Hi-Fi VCR and that you record to the Hi-Fi track. Recording to the linear tracks of a VCR is no better than a cassette.
Multitracking is possible if you do this.
I used 4 hi fi vcrs in my drummers garage.First pass was drums (4 mics), guide vocal and scratch guitar.That's 6 out of the possible 8 channels I had available (4 stereo tracks =8 total tracks possible each pass).
The guide vocal and scratch guitar were the L and R channel of one of the vcrs.Using this as the timing master,the output of this vcr went back to the mixer,where the headphone amp got the signal and distributed it to the players.Tracking with phones and all instruments direct meant better separation.Guitars came out of the j-station,bass to a direct box.This second pass,we recorded bass,rhythm guitar,lead guitar.lead vox and harmony vox.
The tapes were taken home and dumped to the hard drive of my pc.I used Cool Edit for the edits and n-track for further recording,mixing and mastering.
Its not quite CD quality but definately way better than cassette.I did this as an experiment to see if multiple vcrs would sync.Now I have a "quick and dirty" 8 channel mobile recording rig.
Multitracking is possible if you do this.
I used 4 hi fi vcrs in my drummers garage.First pass was drums (4 mics), guide vocal and scratch guitar.That's 6 out of the possible 8 channels I had available (4 stereo tracks =8 total tracks possible each pass).
The guide vocal and scratch guitar were the L and R channel of one of the vcrs.Using this as the timing master,the output of this vcr went back to the mixer,where the headphone amp got the signal and distributed it to the players.Tracking with phones and all instruments direct meant better separation.Guitars came out of the j-station,bass to a direct box.This second pass,we recorded bass,rhythm guitar,lead guitar.lead vox and harmony vox.
The tapes were taken home and dumped to the hard drive of my pc.I used Cool Edit for the edits and n-track for further recording,mixing and mastering.
Its not quite CD quality but definately way better than cassette.I did this as an experiment to see if multiple vcrs would sync.Now I have a "quick and dirty" 8 channel mobile recording rig.
Actually VCR's can be synced together if they're editing decks with RS422 ports for machine control, smpte connections, and smpte timcode. You'd also probably want an external syncronizer to get proper gen lock on all the decks. Kinda pricey if you're just multi-tracking audio.
