Stripped-down studio

[guitarpicker2006]

Correct me if I am wrong but here's my idea...
Take my CDRW burner/player
Buy a nice mixing board
get some nice rack effects for the mixnig
and record from there to there

If this can be done, can I record my whole band? What else would you recommend???????????

[darren wilson]

CD-RW drives aren't quick enough yet for real-time recording. You'll need some kind of hard disk- or tape-based recorder to record the raw audio, then you need to burn as a second step.

[guitarpicker2006]

I use the two cD player/burner when I record CD's form my tapes, why wouldn't that work??

[darren wilson]

Originally Posted by guitarpicker2006

I use the two cD player/burner when I record CD's form my tapes, why wouldn't that work??

What kind of hardware are you talking about here? Is it a computer-based CD-RW or is it a standalone component?

[guitarpicker2006]

I was talking about a standalone component, like a rackmount CDRW Burner/Player.

[caprile]

mmmmmm didn't you post that you couldn't afford strings?

[guitarpicker2006]

yes, but i got out of the finacial hole, if you read the whole post

[darren wilson]

Originally Posted by guitarpicker2006

I was talking about a standalone component, like a rackmount CDRW Burner/Player.

What i mean is, what equipment are you using now to burn CDs from tapes? I've never heard of anybody making recordings directly to CD-R in real time. There's much more to the process than just pressing the record button, because you're taking analog signals and recording them to a digital medium.

[JESTER700]

Yes, there are several real time CD burners on the market, and have been for years. Realtime A/D has been around since at least the early 80's (Sony F1, designed to record 12 bit digital sound on a VCR). It's just that software to do this IN A PC hasn't been made (or isn't popular). I dunno why - heck, there's even software for realtime DVD burning!

But you really have no advantage over getting a good sound card, recording to a PC, and THEN burning. At least there, you can do some tweaking/editing, and multitrack if you want.

[guitarpicker2006]

Yes, you can record in real time on a stand-alone CD burner unit. The one that i have has an a/d/ d/a converter in it ot allow that. here's the link to it http://www.teac.com/ConsumerAudio/CD...rs/RW-D250.htm. This is the one that i use with a tascam 4 track tape recorder.

[JESTER700]

Philips & Pioneer are the other popular makers of these...

[bammbamm]

You can do what you suggested, however you have no overall control once the cd is burned, all you're doing is mixing the band into a 2 track format and recording it. Great for basement tapes, but not so much for high grade studio recording.

Bamm

[Drew]

Yeah, i've worked with realtime CD-R recordsers before; they use them to record live shows at the coffee shop thing at my school. however, for the price of a standalone unit and a good mixer (and, since you can't multi-track on a CD-R disc, a number of decent mics so you could capture a full band), well, for that price, (even if you already own the CDR drive, which appears to be the case), you could pick up a rather nice dedicated digital audio workstation and a mic or two, which would give you most likely 8-12 tracks of CD quality audio, built-in effects, and, most importantly, the ability to multitrack and vary the mix after the fact.

yeah, if you've already got all the gear to record a live band directly to CD-R, it's probably cheaper for you to do it that way. However, digital audio workstations are pretty cheap these das, so if you're looking at spending more than $400 on the board and enough mics to be truely useful, then you'd be better off using the CD-R drive for mixdown rather than as a primary recording medium.

-Drew

[guitarpicker2006]

Well, then what's a good setup to record something like that.

[bob oakman]

Why not record directly to DAT or something and then dump it to a free audio editing program like Pro Tools free, edit the handles off the tracks, EQ if you want and then drag and drop the trimmed files on to a, much cheaper, computer based CDR?