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Recording Kit How To???

Posted by BUGGY (C) on June 24, 2014 at 4:30am in Cool gear discussion - that's not cigar box relate

I am trying to find a way to record 4 tracks (live) at once with a decent but affordable audio interface

Either fire wire or usb.

I have purchased an Alexis I04 recently , but it wont play ball with Acid Pro 8 and the Cubase wont work either..

So it works as a mixer but not as a recording interface for me.

I have been recomended the Akai unit, but on the internet this also has lots of driver issues.

Previously I have used a Line pod 6 UX2 which is brilliant, but it only does 2 channels at once.

Plus the valve recording station shown above..(cheap used off ebay)

Help has anyone cracked an easy afordable way of doing this with low noise, maybe with a USB mixer.?

I'm trying to find the right bit of kit seems much more tricky than it needs to be..

Also do cheap USB mixers add loads of noise or are they ok for recording and does anyone do one that allows four track recording into Acid pro all at once.

All ideas are wellcome.....

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Naomi Prasad July 18, 2014 at 4:05pm

My brother is using Midas Venice U16 for his home studio
- BUGGY (C) > Naomi Prasad July 18, 2014 at 7:30pm
  
  Cool never hear of that one before. any good?
BUGGY (C) June 29, 2014 at 2:06pm

First go live recording with a zoom, 4 mics into the zoom 4 channels recorded as I played the song

Mics are cheap chinese sm57 £12 copies, and a vintage sure China copy.

It surely must sound better than my Iphone recordings?... if not I have failed.

http://www.cigarboxnation.com/video/riverside-blues-live-zoom-r16?x...
- RTZGUITARS > BUGGY (C) June 30, 2014 at 1:27pm
  
  O.K. now you can't mix everything in headphone you need to dig up a pair of these.
  
  There are tons a affordable monitors out there but it really helps to have more then one reference as to how your mix sounds. I got a pair HS5's on sale no regrets. Wanted the 8's could not afford.
  - BUGGY (C) > RTZGUITARS June 30, 2014 at 1:30pm
    
    Nice..
BUGGY (C) June 29, 2014 at 7:42am
BUGGY (C) June 29, 2014 at 6:05am

heres a quick youtube link to a very quick 5 min mess about on it

Zoom Quick tester
BUGGY (C) June 29, 2014 at 5:13am

Incase anyone gets the same fault
It was a cheap and nasty faulty sd card that came with it.
Well done zoom!
BUGGY (C) June 28, 2014 at 6:50pm

so far cant get past this, anyone know how to start a project?
Mark June 28, 2014 at 5:45pm

Yeah, I've liked the look of Zoom stuff and thought about it. All their gear tends to be packed with features but what do they have to trade off to flog it at those prices. I know people who love their Zoom gear and others who feel it's a bit plastic and flimsy with below par sound quality. Dunno who's right. Depends what you're expecting I guess.

The portastudio units that run on SD cards are great if you want to record somewhere that you wouldn't want to lug a PC along to. The ones I looked at seemed good until I looked at what they'd do when you wanted full multi-track recording computer - they tended to offer only a couple of tracks even though they had four or eight faders. I don't know about the R16 - maybe that's better.

With all these units there's an element of "you get what you pay for".