Which recoder to use to record rehearsals live band?

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Just recorded my husbads band when they were rehearsing today, we used an old mini disc recorder but it keeps cutting out.
Could anyone please advise me on which is the best medium to use.
I have only a small budget of around £200 new or used, ideally i would like to record it straight onto hard drive but they are quite pricey.

I would really appreciate some advice as i need to record these rehearsal fairly sharpish.
 
Forgot to mention, i am using a Behringer desk at rehearsals too.
 
linz1 said:
Forgot to mention, i am using a Behringer desk at rehearsals too.
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For me Linz, no brainer. Native instrument Komplete Audio 6. That will give you two nice clean mic inputs (vocals?) and two more tracks from the Berry mixer (mod # please).

Or a Focusrite 2i4, better the 6i6 but I don't know if it is in budget. You might be lucky like me and find an 8i6 second hand for £100!

But since you seem to have all the "bits" bar the converter, almost anything 100quid up will be fine.

Dave.
 
There is another thread that we are discussing about portastudios. Depending on your requirements, the two primary ones are, Tascam 24 or 32 and the other is the Zoom 16. These are sell contained and doesn't require a computer. For me, I would just use to track and mix the tracks later. Each of the units have 8 channels for simultaneous recording (and then move then to the other tracks and record again), but the Zoom16 will allow a slave feature to add another Zoom16 and you get 16 simultaneous channels.

These run about $500/400 (couple of searches and you will see the difference). Of course with the Zoom for 16, it is about $800. Nice thing about a portastudio is no computer is required, so setup is pretty straight forward.
 
The set up i have at home is a pc/Delta 101lt/Cubase and i need this becuase i am syncing film to audio,
at the rehearsal room ( recording a live band with accoustic instruments) i have a Bheringer mixing desk 12 channel which went into a Sony Mini Disc, but it started cutting out/clipping due to the volume of the drums.

So what i need to do is record the band through the mixing desk and use a recorder of some description to save the music, take it home and tranfere it into cubase.
But i am out of touch with what what everyone is using, like i said earlier recording to a hard drive recorder would be great but they are very pricey.
 
Are you trying to record the separate channels from the Behr, or just a stereo output from it?
 
Within your budget, looks like Zoom R8 or Tascam DP008EX both of which are around the £200 you gave as your budget. Possibly even the DP006 which is smaller and more basic and is about £120. I have a DP006 and find it useful for simple recording tasks. It should work fine with the stereo o/p of your mixer and you can export the recordings to WAV for transfer to computer.

Why is it when someone gives a budget in a query people start responding with suggestions costing twice and more the budget? A little over the budget, I can understand as most of the time you can stretch a budget a bit but twice and more seems to put things out of reach to me.
 
linz1 said:
I am trying to record the stereo output from the Behr.
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In that case look out for a second hand M-Audio fast track pro. It has balanced line inputs and moreover 20dB pads which should match up nicely with the outputs of the Berry mixer.

Dave.
 
For pre-mixed (from a board) 2-channel stereo recording on the cheap, I use a Tascam DR-05. Good for band practice recordings to get actually decent sounding live demo ideas down. I run 12-channel mixer out L/R RCAs out to the DR-05's 1/8th stereo in. Records from mp3/32kbps all the way up to 24/bit-48(96? Can't remember...)kHz wav. Has a decent limiter on board to control clipping and a huge pad. Nice display to if you wanna use your eyes and not just your ears. They run $99 on a
Amazon, but they dip down. I picked mine up for $79. Runs on two AA rechargeable (or alike lines) or a plug (extra).
 
PS - Comes with 2GB Micro SD card, so no hard drive to worry about crashing. And has two stereo condenser mics built in if you wanna just capture ambient recording. They're acceptable for a basic "room mic" sounding recording with so-so distortion avoidance.
 
You know, we rehearse in my studio, with everything you could need to record with, and I record the rehearsals with a Zoom H2 set up in the middle of the room. Why? because its easy.

Alan.
 
witzendoz said:
You know, we rehearse in my studio, with everything you could need to record with, and I record the rehearsals with a Zoom H2 set up in the middle of the room. Why? because its easy.

Alan.
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Yes and because you are doing what I always tell cash/kit strapped noobs to do.
Set up a CO-I stereo mic rig a few mtrs from the band. If you are any good musically this will give very acceptable results. If all you get is drums and bass....You have some work to do with the band NOT recording it!

Dave.
 
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