Recording a full night - Best Way

Disco2Disco

Hi Guys,

What the best to way to record an entire night of music from 11pm-3am. I dont want to use a laptop as I wont be there for the entire night myself. I also wont be able to check levels constantly.

Can anyone point me in the direction of a cheap and reliable option?

R.Shackleford

Maybe something like this would work. http://www.thomann.de/ie/maudio_microtrack_2496.htm

I'm not too familier with this sort of equipment tho.

jimi_t2

Disco2Disco wrote: »

Hi Guys,

What the best to way to record an entire night of music from 11pm-3am. I dont want to use a laptop as I wont be there for the entire night myself. I also wont be able to check levels constantly.

Can anyone point me in the direction of a cheap and reliable option?

Yeah you're talking flash recorder with a decent Line in, although a cheap and cheerful option might be to get a secondhand minidisc recorder with a few discs off adverts.ie - under 50 quid anyway and reliable as hell with great quality.

Disco2Disco

I was thinking mini disc would be the way to do it to. I have access to one so that might be problem solved.

Nice1

Stab*City

If you have a laptop you could run a line out of the mixer into an audio in on ableton or soundforge.. Im not sure but audacity a free wave editor might do the job as well.. ya actually i think you can record with audacity. .also if the laptop has a decent soundcard there might be recording software bundled with it.. sorry i didnt read the op fully scratch that so if you cant use laptop.. one of the lads had a recording device at our last gig.. ill ask name and price of it.. it held like 16 gb of wav..

was.deevey

Make sure its a Minidisc recorder that has longplay function, else you'll be swapping discs .. but damn they are great yokes (the minidisc I mean )

http://www.thomann.de/ie/swissonic_mdr4.htm .. another cheap and cheerful Flash recorder from Thomann that should be able to record hours of lossless audio .. 89 euro + an SD Card (cheap enough nowadays).

Also if you are not gonna be around .. set the levels on minidisc or flash recorder pretty low at the start of the night .. 4 hours is a long time for levels to increase to a crunchy stage, I would generally give 50% headroom when recording.

You can Always increase the volume / master the recording after the event in audiacity or better

electrogrimey

I know it's a bit late, but the new CDJ range can record audio straight to a USB, you stick in the flash drive and it records it straight on, no laptops or anything. Thought that was a handy feature.

FensterDJ

electrogrimey wrote: »

I know it's a bit late, but the new CDJ range can record audio straight to a USB, you stick in the flash drive and it records it straight on, no laptops or anything. Thought that was a handy feature.

I night be a little naive here, but wouln't that just record what is being pllayed on the CDJ, I mean just the tracks being played on it, and all the cueing and beat matching and stuff like that, not the actual mix,

wouldn't you need to connect to an output on the mixer? or are CDJs sold as an all in one unit?

electrogrimey

FensterDJ wrote: »

I night be a little naive here, but wouln't that just record what is being pllayed on the CDJ, I mean just the tracks being played on it, and all the cueing and beat matching and stuff like that, not the actual mix,

wouldn't you need to connect to an output on the mixer? or are CDJs sold as an all in one unit?

Not sure, I assume it's something to do with the new link thing, all I heard was that you can just stick in a USB and record sets.