My first post here for quite some time, and I really appreciate your input cause this definitely pushes me out of my comfort zone:
I´m thinking about recording a CD with Mandolin (me) in a duo or trio setting with different people. All acoustic instruments (guitar, bass, harp, accordion, flute...), a couple of vocals. The people I want to work with live all over the place so most of the time I will travel or they come to my place. The concept is, never more than 3 instruments on one track, mostly two.
I chose not to record with a laptop because I am technically challenged and for some reason, these things eat up all my time and NOTHING gets recorded!
My plan is to record everything as good as I can fast and easy and then bring it to the studion for editing, mixing and mastering. I will only do the recording, otherwise this thing will never be finished!
So I was looking at the Alesis HD24 or HD24XR: http://www.alesis.com/hd24
My plan was to use this and a couple of decent mikes and hit it off - maybe record a rythm track and then have two or three people play live and do some punch ins if required (or just redo the take), maybe record some vocals afterwards. Of course there are other issues, like room and separation and headphone monitoring, but as far as recording, can I expect good results that way or would I need other outboard equipment I didn´t think of?
Are there other approaches you would recommend?
Thanks!
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