RE: 2-Channel Stereo Recording from the Soundboard

["Krispen Hartung" <info@krispenhartung.com>]

After reviewing all the suggestions from everyone, reviewing specs,
media storage approaches, etc. I'm pretty much set on the Marantz PMD570
now....

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/PMD570/

Marantz PMD570 Features: 

Record Directly to Compact Flash Cards. 
RS-232c Control of Functions. 
Easy One Touch Record. 
No Moving Parts. 
MP3, MP2, WAV, and BWF Format Compatible. 
Over 40 Assignable Quality Settings. 
Security for Media (Door). 
16-48 kHz Sample Rate Selections. 
32-384 Bit Rate Selectable. 
Menu Driven Contact Closure for Remote Operation: Start-Pause, Mark
EDL/Create New File/Start-Pause with New File/ Mark EDL. 
Digital Input and Output. 
Balanced XLR Line inputs with Trim. 
Unbalanced Line In and Out

And after searching the web, $899 seems to be the standard prices these
units. And I can get a 1 gig compact flash card for $90. The main reason
why I like this unit is that it is rackmount, not thousands of dollars,
and I can move the wav or mp3 files directly to my computer and edit
with ProTools. This will make it very easy to archive all my live
recordings.

Kris




-----Original Message-----
From: Henry Heine [mailto:henry@bagend.com] 
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 2:18 PM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: 2-Channel Stereo Recording from the Soundboard


I'm using the Panasonic DA-1 portable DAT recorder. It has been trouble 
free for almost 10 yrs. sp/dif in from a Yamaha 01V96 with auxes 3&4 as 
the post fade record stereo buss. This way I can setup some mics to 
pickup the ambient sound and not send them to the stereo buss, which 
feeds the PA.

These days I would avoid DAT because it will soon be obsolete. MD always

sucked and always will because of the data compression scheme.

The little Edirol is awesome, but has no digital input. It does sound 
good and I might have to get one anyhow, and go analog when I need a 
mixer. Maybe a competetor will appear with a sp/dif in.

A portable CD recorder still sounds like the best way for now.

Henry

goddard.duncan@mtvne.com wrote:
>  >>I'm curious as to what stereo digital recording units others are
> using to record their live performance off the soundboard. I'm
currently 
> using a Sony Minidisk MZ-R70[snip] I'm thinking of a DAT recorder,
like 
> the Panasonic SV-3700 or SV-3800.<<
> 
> kris- forget about DAT. it sucks. don't get me wrong- they sound great
> when they're behaving themselves, but for reliability, especially on
the 
> move.... you're better off with the MD. if you can get hold of the
blank 
> media for them (which we in the UK have had to wait for until this 
> week), there's a version of MD that can record 90 minutes uncompressed

> onto a 1Gb blank. it eats batteries though.
> 
> otherwise- if you can afford a DAT portable, chances are you could
> stretch to a reasonably portable CD recorder. I have a denon 1/2 width

> (midi hifi) unit that's served well in the rehearsal room. there's a 
> "proper" pro portable machine by HHB for about £800 & I think marantz
do 
> a couple in this sort of price-range.
> 
> just my 2c worth.
> oh, & if you use the line input of the sony, I'm pretty sure it's a
> fixed level rather than the agc that you get on the mic inputs. I may
be 
> wrong.... I have made albums from MD recordings too- they're pretty
good 
> at not recording the background noises, as atrac compression works by 
> exploiting some psycho-acoustic effect that's the same as what y'r 
> hearing does. so an album you know very well will sound weird on an
MD- 
> remixed, almost- but a live recording sounds like what you remember, 
> with all the bar-noise & chair-scraping magically absent.
> 
> duncan.
> 
> 
> 
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