#945594 - 08/06/00 10:31 PM
Recording Medium
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Anonymous
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I play in a praise band at church. The congregation enjoys the worship services and has frequently requested copies of "the worship tape" a live recording going straight from the (4 bus) board to a consumer cassette deck.
The worship leader has a desire to give people a christmas present of a better quality tape or possibly a cd.
I have a PC based system (Layla/Cubase/Wavelab) we could use for mixing, mastering and possibly burning the end product. What we don't know is how to capture the sound in digital format, in such a way that we have decent mixing options.
One option is to cart my computer down to the church, which I am loath to do. Another is to rent an ADAT. I am unsure how we would get audio from the ADAT to the PC, however. (The Layla has spdif in, but I don't want to confront a bunch of sync issues.
We are new to this. The soundman has several years of experience with hardware compressors & EQ's but that was a long time ago.
Any Advice?
Jerry
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#945595 - 08/07/00 06:22 AM
Re: Recording Medium
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Anderton
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I suggest you rent a Masterlink or other stand-alone CD recorder. You can just pop in a CD-R and hit record (although you'll probably want to pop a limiter between the mixing board and the input to prevent "overs"). From there, you can take the audio CD to your computer, "rip" the CD to a wav file, and edit away. Then you can burn a finished CD. Meanwhile, you'll have the original as an archive in case you want to make any changes later on.
One other option would be to rent TWO stand alone recorders, and keep one -10 dB below the other. That way if there is distortion, you can splice in a section from the one that recorded at a lower level. Of course, you'll have to boost the level, but it's better than getting distortion.
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#945596 - 08/07/00 11:04 AM
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Craig:
Thanks so much, I'll try to find a direct CD recorder for rent around here (Dallas). Two more questions arise for me:
Are there any rental companies you have dealt with, and
Is there an option you could think of that would enable us to record to more tracks than 2? And how would make best use of two? (If we do the CD recorder should we buss the vocals to one side and the instruments on the other?)
Thanks again,
Jerry
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#945597 - 08/07/00 11:17 AM
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Craig:
Thanks so much, I'll try to find a direct CD recorder for rent around here (Dallas). Two more questions arise for me:
Are there any rental companies you have dealt with, and
Is there an option you could think of that would enable us to record to more tracks than 2? And how would make best use of two? (If we do the CD recorder should we buss the vocals to one side and the instruments on the other?)
Thanks again,
Jerry
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#945598 - 08/07/00 12:36 PM
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THE MIX FIX
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Jerry:
Why not rent the ADAT (or DA-88, etc.) and record on all 8 tracks. The four busses, and four direct outs, then MIX it down to two tracks of your computer, or a DAT that you can transfer to your computer, using the Church's or another rental board?
I think you'll find it easier to rent an ADAT, and the sound will be MUCH better, since you'll have more control over all the tracks, in case you need to adjust the level of a soloist, etc. AND you'll still have all your editing abilities.
Just my 2 cents.
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Bob.
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