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CD recorder with Behringer mixer
Hi Everyone
I wanted to know the recommendations for a good CD recorder with a hard drive. This is for a local church with a lecture style format in a 70 seater hall. We have Shure mikes and a behringer mixer. We are now shopping for a CD recorder. The reason for the hard drive is that the CDs on occasion have turned out to be bad. If we had a hard drive to record on then we could eliminate the chance of missing the lecture even if the CD is bad. If not we have a additional backup. For the next lecture we could erase it and begin again. We had short listed the TASCAM CDR-750. But the salesman had told us it came with a Hard drive. When we went to pick it up, it turned out it wasn't the case. So we are now in a delima to buy it or not. Could someone please help me out with this? Thanks in anticipation, Prit |
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"prit" wrote in message
... Hi Everyone I wanted to know the recommendations for a good CD recorder with a hard drive. This is for a local church with a lecture style format in a 70 seater hall. We have Shure mikes and a behringer mixer. We are now shopping for a CD recorder. The reason for the hard drive is that the CDs on occasion have turned out to be bad. If we had a hard drive to record on then we could eliminate the chance of missing the lecture even if the CD is bad. If not we have a additional backup. For the next lecture we could erase it and begin again. We had short listed the TASCAM CDR-750. But the salesman had told us it came with a Hard drive. When we went to pick it up, it turned out it wasn't the case. So we are now in a delima to buy it or not. Could someone please help me out with this? Thanks in anticipation, Stop right now and find another dealer. Reason - the Tascam 750 is *not* a hard disk recorder and any pro audio dealer who handles the line knows that...your dealer obviously does not. The Tascam 750 is simply a pro-quality hard disk recorder. My suggestion -- find a good high volume, pro audio dealer online such as Swee****er (www.swee****er.com) and talk to them about your needs. They handle all kinds of pro audio equipment, and understand church requirements very well. The only stereo hard disk recorder in widespread availability is the Alessis Masterlink...which includes a 40gig hard drive as well as a cd burner. Teac's only hard drive machine is a 24 track, $4000 recorder. An alternative, if you have a computer savvy volunteer support staff, would be to buy/build a small but powerful computer with both hard disk and dvd/cd burner. You would probably get Nero or Roxio software along with the CD burner, and once installed and set up by the more experienced computer person, starting a recording would be as simple as staarting up the computer, starting a program, and doing a simple mouse click. One advantage to this would be you could install an external "storage" hard drive and archive all the lectures for some period of time onto one drive. Swee****er has several custom computers designed specifically for music recording, as well as handling many, many linnes of pro-audio gear, so you couldn't go wrong with them (btw, I have *no* affiliation with them). Either the Alessis or the computer should run in the neighborhood of $800. Hope this helps. |
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I've just started using a Xitel Inport A to D converter with a laptop PC.
You could use it with a desktop PC as well if you like. The laptop is much more portable, but if this is a stationary church setup, then a desktop box might be a better choice. Since noise is an issue, you might want to consider one of the Mini-itx machines that run at 800 Mhz. While this may seem rather slow, they run without a CPU fan! Point your web browser at: http://www.softwarey.com/scripts/pro...idproduct=1172 http://www.logicsupply.com/product_i...products_id/51 http://www.cappuccinopc.com/solutions/fanless.asp http://store.yahoo.com/directron/silence.html With a real PC, you can not only record to hard drive and then burn to CD-R, you can also edit the sound file and add effects. It'll cost you less than buying a special purpose gizmo that'll likely be obsolete in a couple of years. Russ prit wrote: Hi Everyone I wanted to know the recommendations for a good CD recorder with a hard drive. This is for a local church with a lecture style format in a 70 seater hall. We have Shure mikes and a behringer mixer. We are now shopping for a CD recorder. The reason for the hard drive is that the CDs on occasion have turned out to be bad. If we had a hard drive to record on then we could eliminate the chance of missing the lecture even if the CD is bad. If not we have a additional backup. For the next lecture we could erase it and begin again. We had short listed the TASCAM CDR-750. But the salesman had told us it came with a Hard drive. When we went to pick it up, it turned out it wasn't the case. So we are now in a delima to buy it or not. Could someone please help me out with this? Thanks in anticipation, Prit |
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