Recording your gig ?

[sjj123]

No one has a way to burn a CD at an upcoming gig. Sure we can tape it. Should I consider recording it on a computer or simply do the tape thing...I ultimately want it on CD...thanks

[ed4644]

I recently started tampering with the idea of recording my gigs and practices.

I own a Dell digital jukebox. The mp3 player has recording capabilities. The only problem is it is mono, and not stereo. so I bought a stereo microphone from sony. I plug the microphone directly into the player, and hit record. It records beautifully, with stereo sound.

The software that comes with the jukebox helps you tweek the sound with an equalizer. you can then burn it directly to a CD.

hope this helps,

Ed-

[Flamaque]

I record my gigs with a Sony MiniDisc.
Great sound quality. Make sure you get good mics.
I then stream the music into my Mac and burn it to CDs.


Hope this helps.

[sjj123]

Can I hook up a tape deck to the computer to play the tape??

[XNavyDrummer]

SJJ123,

You could tape it and then just record to your hard drive using the sound card. You can do this in stereo and if you have the software you can do some EQing to dial it in. Next just burn the finished product on a CD. Many of the mp3s on my site are from tapes and simply transferred to the digital domain.

[Rhythmatist]

We tape all of our gigs. We use a Carvin board that has separate outs with their own level adjustments that go to tape. Once we get consistent and are happy with the mixes we'll lay them down on a Fostex MR8, dump them to a PC via USB, master them using PC based recording software and then burn to a CD. I use a Makie CFX12 to submix the kit and to boost the snare and OH in the recording mix only I send a separate line from those channel's insert (using the 1/4" plug tip to get the output signal from the insert jack). This goes to separate channels in the main board where we can boost those signals to the tape without upsetting the mix going to house. We do our own sound from the stage as sound techs are too costly to hire for all venues (and our bass player gets the best monitor mix and we're spoiled by that).