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Re: Recording Church

jordan — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 21:21:32 -0000

We use a cd recorder (tascam) and finalize them in the deck so we can immediately run them out to a duplicator and have a 5 minute turnaround for instant availability by the time people walk out of service. Then we edit it down and fly it up on the webpage. Never had a failure yet with the Tascam unless we got a bad disk. Since we record both service and are going to tape we got some kind of way to get it to the computer as it is highly doubtful all four recording attempts could fail.

Re: Recording Church

eric — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:06:55 -0000

Check out this site out...

I like the Samson Zoom H4 because you can supposedly multi-track but I've heard the quality of the Edirol is better.

http://www.auditory.org/rec...

Re: Recording Church

alex — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:30:51 -0000

Travis - yes I agree that an iMAC is the solution, now to fund it...

Steve - yup the M-Audio is a perfect solution, looking into it. And we'd burn a disc off my office desktop & we have a 7 disc burner for multiple copies.

Eric - you want me to what? huh? We need a permanent solution ha ha! And the M-Audio is looking like it...

Re: Recording Church

eric — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:28:39 -0000

I used to use the M-Audio Fast Track on that Dell that John is now using. Maybe you could get him to give that thing up for a few hours on Sunday. Then he could listen to his own messages at home. It worked pretty well. I would go with that.

http://www.m-audio.com/prod...

Or you might look into this little genius of an invention. The MUVO V100. I recorded some songs on it... "Devoted", "Life for a life" & "Come Alive". I'm not sure if it has a line in, but it does have a microphone so there's probably a way to make it work. The beauty of it is that it doubles as a Jump Drive with it's USB insert. The bummer is that it's only 1GB. But I think they're coming out with a 4GB. Still not huge, but big enough.

http://us.creative.com/prod...

Lastly, I've been seriously considering plugging into our Macbook Pro and using Garageband. My only concern is that it's designated for ProPresenter and I hate to mess with it during the service. However, it would be sweet if it worked since we're portable and simplicity is like Gold at our Church.

Re: Recording Church

Steve Eller — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:52:55 -0000

We use a minidisc recorder for all of our stuff. Unless you are really wanting to multi-track, I would look at getting a two-track digital recorder. Check out the M-Audio MicroTrack II. I haven't used it, but it looks like it may meet your needs. It is portable, and can be had for a couple hundred bucks. Obviously you would still need a burner for your CDs.

http://www.m-audio.com/prod...

Re: Recording Church

Travis — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:22:47 -0000

We use the standard CD burner for messages. We record the message only in our first service and use that one for podcasts and CD duplication. We record everything in the second service. We can pull the message off if we need to but either way it gives us a documentation of the service. (Board mixes of music are rarely worth distributing but they are good for our engineers and worship team to hear.) Now that we are in the new building, we also multi-track our services on two Alesis 24 track HD recorders for remixing later.

If I were in your shoes I would look for a computer to live in the sound booth to record services. You talk about fixing the CD burner but it would probably be cheaper to buy a new one. However, if you can't get a whole service on a CD, what is the benefit of that?

A refurbished iMac with Garageband will work your magic. Obviously, it would have built in podcasting things too.