Life circumstances will be giving me a Thursday off from work every week for the foreseeable future, so I am thinking of having music time increase. To get back into playing form I always have found recording covers of songs has been the best way for me to go past "just messing around" with my guitar and gear.
So I have an older macbook and years ago I used an interface to run into that but wasn't gelling with it. I come from the cassette 4 track days, so I have my eyes on a Foster Mr8 mII which has a USB out at a local shop that I can trade some pedals for so no cash out of pocket. There was also a boss one with an integrated pad based drum machine, but it did not have XLR inputs. Any opinions on other possible cheap digital recorders that have 2 XLR inputs, USB out, and the kicker would be internal mic/battery power option for portable/reverb/drum machine pads. For $70 in value the Foster MR8 mkII looked decent.
also, I live in a house built in 1931. With my tube amp I can pick up radio stations which when just playing around I didn't care, but for recording this will bug me. I will start with trying to isolate the problem via cable, power outlet, pedals, etc and test the outlets themselves also... but if it is just the house I was thinking of getting a used power conditioner rack unit as i heard this is a good option, and used ones sit for $35-50 all the time locally at stores. Is getting a nice new $20 surge protector power strip just as good as getting a dinosaur 90s rack relic, or does a power conditioner always do more for radio interference of dirty mains power.
Thanks in advance for replies!
getting back into recording + power conditioner question
- hangwire
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Re: getting back into recording + power conditioner question
No experience of your problem, but for what it's worth, I've been running a Furman PL8-E in my rack "dinosaur" for 20+ years. Never let me down, quiet as a mouse - I have valve pre-amp and power amp in there, too.
I've stuck with the rack, because no-one has come up with anything that does a better job.
I've stuck with the rack, because no-one has come up with anything that does a better job.
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Re: getting back into recording + power conditioner question
My old tube amps were doing this..hangwire wrote:Life circumstances will be giving me a Thursday off from work every week for the foreseeable future, so I am thinking of having music time increase. To get back into playing form I always have found recording covers of songs has been the best way for me to go past "just messing around" with my guitar and gear.
So I have an older macbook and years ago I used an interface to run into that but wasn't gelling with it. I come from the cassette 4 track days, so I have my eyes on a Foster Mr8 mII which has a USB out at a local shop that I can trade some pedals for so no cash out of pocket. There was also a boss one with an integrated pad based drum machine, but it did not have XLR inputs. Any opinions on other possible cheap digital recorders that have 2 XLR inputs, USB out, and the kicker would be internal mic/battery power option for portable/reverb/drum machine pads. For $70 in value the Foster MR8 mkII looked decent.
also, I live in a house built in 1931. With my tube amp I can pick up radio stations which when just playing around I didn't care, but for recording this will bug me. I will start with trying to isolate the problem via cable, power outlet, pedals, etc and test the outlets themselves also... but if it is just the house I was thinking of getting a used power conditioner rack unit as i heard this is a good option, and used ones sit for $35-50 all the time locally at stores. Is getting a nice new $20 surge protector power strip just as good as getting a dinosaur 90s rack relic, or does a power conditioner always do more for radio interference of dirty mains power.
Thanks in advance for replies!
The power conditioners didn't help..
Switching to a George L patch cable as the first jack did..
Bullet cables and waves cables all made my old Oranges into radios..
I did put a ferrite isolator around one of my cables that did sorta work..
But the George Ls killed the radio..