Re: High resolution digital recorders

On Oct 19, 10:12 am, "Arny Krueger" <ar...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The best current deal is a ca. $200 digital recorder that needs ca. $1,000
worth of media to do the job you've defined. You can save money on the media
by using formats other than 24/48.

Oh, yeah, I forgot that the subject of this thread was "High
resolution digital recorders." I routinely record live shows at 16-bit
44.1 kHz because I see no reason to go any higher. Plus it's the
easiest format from which to make audio CDs (though I've discovered
that modern audio CD writing programs, for better or worse, are
perfectly happy being fed just about any digital audio format
including MP3).

Trouble is, I don't know of any pro CD recorders that cost less than about
$600 each.

Well, that's not too bad, and that's the sort of thing that a festival
will buy. It's a one-time (until it wears out) investment, they may be
able to use grant money for it, and the media it uses is dirt cheap
and easy to handle. No computer required unless you choose to back it
up to hard disk or DVD.

Probably the biggest disadvantage to a CD recorder is that you need to
finalize the disk's TOC in order to play it on an ordinary player.
This typically takes one to two minutes, so unless you leave the disks
unfinalized and take care of it later, you can't remove one disk and
insert another and be ready to record again in a single operation. In
my workflow, I'd stop the recorder at the end of the set, start
finalizing, go up to the stage to help for the next setup, then run
back to the console to get the show up. I'd probably forget to pull
the finalized CD out and try to start recording on the previous, but
now finalized disk. (don't ask me how I know that)


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