I want to buy some hardware for multitrack recording (c£500/$700). Ive been checking some stuff out on the net but I would appreciate some suggestions/recommendations/advice.

Regards

Nelly

Everyone has different needs.
What are you look for, or what have you looked at?
What do you want to be able to do?

I want to record bands at gigs mostly. I've had a look at the Motu 828 and at Firepod. I like the look of them both. Firepad has no ADAT connection. At the moment I don't need this facility but I like to think about these things in a long-term way.

I suppose I could be more specific and ask if anyone haas any opinions about these two products.

Cheers,

Nelly

Actually, I have another plan.. I'm thinking of getting an Alesis multimix 12 (or 16) Firewire. Any thoughts?

Firewire mixers are probably a good bet, for starters anyway.
Make sure you have appropriate software too.

Alesis Multimix
Phonic Helix
Mackie Onyx

Cheers

Hi, i have a question about pro tools. Whenever I bounce down a song onto my hardrive and import it into iTunes to burn, that one song is about 50 mb. whereas a whole cd like Led Zeppelin II is only 30 or 40 mb. Is this normal? if not what can i do to fix it?
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Jeremy

Bron_y_aur22 wrote:

Hi, i have a question about pro tools. Whenever I bounce down a song onto my hardrive and import it into iTunes to burn, that one song is about 50 mb. whereas a whole cd like Led Zeppelin II is only 30 or 40 mb. Is this normal? if not what can i do to fix it?

When you bounce a mix down in Pro Tools, it saves it as a .wav or .aif PCM format (uncompressed). Your Led Zepplin album is probably in mp3 format (compressed). A Wav/Aif file is about 10 MB per stereo minute, so yeah it's normal. I Tunes allows you to convert files to a proprietary compressed format; just select the song in your library and under 'advanced' select 'convert selection to AAC.' Then if you're pressed for hard drive space, you can trash the original wav/aif file. But be warned, compressed file formats are way lower quality than uncompressed. Though the differences may be subtle for the untrained ear.

Hey thanks
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Jeremy

If your gonna spend the cash on a device I would look into a device that lets you cut out noise from the original recording. I know there is a device out there which will let you mute everything from vocals to guitars to whatever, you set the paramaters.

For gigs like that you probably will want something like this. I would spend my money on one of these.

Sry I cant remember what the name of the rack/component is but it was a long time ago, just a thought.

Groovy wrote:

If your gonna spend the cash on a device I would look into a device that lets you cut out noise from the original recording. I know there is a device out there which will let you mute everything from vocals to guitars to whatever, you set the paramaters.

Hmmm... that would be a gate... Hardly earth-shattering new technology....

And a better strategy is not having the noise in there in the first place.... that is, if you care at all about good recording technique.
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