• From: Nottingham, UK
  • Registered: 2006-08-08
  • Posts: 690

Topic: Simple Recording

Yikes, my old tape cassette recorder died this weekend. It was just a cheap dictaphone type thing but I'm not sure what to use instead.


All I want to do is play along a rythmn guitar track whilst Garageband beats out drums and record the ensuing racket. I can then take the recorder elsewhere and play it as a backing track to practise soloing over.


Should I get a mike for my miniMac? Just buy some of those backing track CD/book affairs? What's today's equivalent of my dictaphone? Would it just be cheaper to get a basic porta-studio?

'The sound of the city seems to disappear'
  • From: Nottingham, UK
  • Registered: 2006-08-08
  • Posts: 690

Re: Simple Recording

What I've found so far;

£20  Backing trax can be as expensive as a simple Griffin Garaband guitar USB cable or a new cassette recorder.

£40  Samson USB microphone or  M-Audio Jam Lab USB input box.

£150  Boss Micro BR - what a wonder this is! Solid state 4 track recording with drum machine and effects  just remember to add PC-15 for a guitar cable adaptor at £30.

£200 Sony have a Hi-MD with no-nonsense recording modes but it's old technology next to Roland's Edirol R-09 which has two quality mikes and is solid state all the way and is only a few steps higher costwise at £270.

'The sound of the city seems to disappear'
  • Registered: 2007-02-23
  • Posts: 37

Re: Simple Recording

i just started recording because i fired myself from my band cuz my rythm guitarist had a pretty bad head problem so i just record my rythem stuff on an old boom box with a condenser mic then play it back when i play lead its not best in fact it sucks but it works <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_razz.gif" border=0 alt="Razz">