Ok, here I go bringing back one of my old posts...
I have mentioned it abit here that I recently worked a battle of the bands, the problem was it was snowed out and has gotten pushed back 2 weeks. This is both a good thing and a bad thing.
For the orignal show, (and the rehersals which we did have ) I brought in 2 old computers (dontated by my Dad's work) and hooked the line ins of those computers to the aux outs of my school's sound board (yes, I know I should have probaby used the inserts, but I didnt have the right cables) and by ajusting each chanel's aux outs I was able to get 4 track recording (6 chanel the day my friend brought her laptop and let me record with that too). The idea worked well, and everything recorded fine. I was able to bring all the files into a really cheap audio editing program I have and line them up so they sound decent. The only problem is that was a PAIN to do and the quality stunk (way to much noise in the recording caused by a poor quality sound cards)
So, once again this has me looking at sound recording devices. This time I have been focusing much more on computer based options with the idea that since Best Buy has held my laptop hostage in their service department for just about a month and a half now, I might have the leverage to get them to give me or drasticaly reduce the price on a firewire PC card for my laptop.
Basicly it would be used for the same stuff as I have talked about earlier in this thread, (basicly needing a min of 8 XLR inputs). I have spent a good deal of the afternoon looking and I like the looks of the PreSonus Firepod (Here a zzounds.com) what do you guys think about it? The other (more expensive) option seems to be the ST Audio DSP-3000 M-port (here at zzounds.com) I just would like to hear any suggestions you might have or any observations about these (or other) devices. Suggestions as to other devices to consider would be apprecitated too.
Thanks!
I have mentioned it abit here that I recently worked a battle of the bands, the problem was it was snowed out and has gotten pushed back 2 weeks. This is both a good thing and a bad thing.
For the orignal show, (and the rehersals which we did have ) I brought in 2 old computers (dontated by my Dad's work) and hooked the line ins of those computers to the aux outs of my school's sound board (yes, I know I should have probaby used the inserts, but I didnt have the right cables) and by ajusting each chanel's aux outs I was able to get 4 track recording (6 chanel the day my friend brought her laptop and let me record with that too). The idea worked well, and everything recorded fine. I was able to bring all the files into a really cheap audio editing program I have and line them up so they sound decent. The only problem is that was a PAIN to do and the quality stunk (way to much noise in the recording caused by a poor quality sound cards)
So, once again this has me looking at sound recording devices. This time I have been focusing much more on computer based options with the idea that since Best Buy has held my laptop hostage in their service department for just about a month and a half now, I might have the leverage to get them to give me or drasticaly reduce the price on a firewire PC card for my laptop.
Basicly it would be used for the same stuff as I have talked about earlier in this thread, (basicly needing a min of 8 XLR inputs). I have spent a good deal of the afternoon looking and I like the looks of the PreSonus Firepod (Here a zzounds.com) what do you guys think about it? The other (more expensive) option seems to be the ST Audio DSP-3000 M-port (here at zzounds.com) I just would like to hear any suggestions you might have or any observations about these (or other) devices. Suggestions as to other devices to consider would be apprecitated too.
Thanks!