I want to record some live shows ala Rerun at the Doobie Brothers. I know I won't get great quality but I want to try anyway. Anyone do this lately?
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I want to record some live shows ala Rerun at the Doobie Brothers. I know I won't get great quality but I want to try anyway. Anyone do this lately?
Captain vague strikes!
What kind of equipment do you have?
I don't have any equipment. I have friends with all kinds of professional recording stuff, but I can't exactly walk into a club and ask to mic the room. I guess I'm wondering if there is an mp3 recorder or something with an external mic line in. I figure someone must have done this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
I've seen people record shown with a video camera and the audio came out suprisingly decent. Maybe that's an option? I'm really looking for something I can slip in my pocket, but will record at a fairly good quality.
Again, I don't have any equipment and need to buy from scratch.
Look into Archos portable media devices. I had some success with mine before a redneck broke it.
I'll check them out thanks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
you can get stereo mics that clip onto hats, you can get suprisingly good sound quality from them if you stand in the right spot.
What recording devise would you suggest I buy to connect the mics to?Quote:
Originally Posted by arjue
An Archos.
What he said.Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
The problem is, they were hard enough to find before - and now there's a hardware lull as they begin to roll out their kick-ass 4th gen devices.
Luckily they sold out the rest of their inventory to Dish Network, and they still have a bunch of them, and at great prices too. They are "branded" Pocket Dish and will download content from certain Dish DVR's - but otherwise function exactly the same as the regular models.
A co-worker of mine just got the $150 402 model (I think ground shipping was $6 from Cali). The thing is an electronic swiss-army knife but for your needs will give you 20 Gigs of 44.1 Khz raw WAV quality recording in the size of a 3G iPod. You'll be able to just dump the file via USB 2.0, edit and burn. I know it's a "line-in" input but you should be able to plug the right powered mic right into it, if they aren't powered you may need a pre-amp.
This thing used to go for $300, and that was for the earlier version without USB-hosting and WMV playback capabilities. www.pocketdish.com is the site.
I might just wait for the 604 WiFi.