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A little over my head, digital recording from mixer with computer?

Jordontodd

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Product In Question- https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B0719BC5FS/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1


So novice is an understatement but I'm starting an information-based podcast that I'll basically be "engineering". I bought this product in the link above, although I notice a lot of Pyle products don't get the best reviews, this had a price of like $85 when I bought it last week and seems to have everything I need.


Now cut to me looking up how to record and I'm exhausted. I don't mind spending money to buy a digital recorder, because I can't be lugging in my desktop every time I go to their shop and "set up shop". I can't tell if it even has a way to do what I guess is considered Analog recording out from Stereo besides the "Main Out", all the other stereo ones say "In". And digital out of the USB without the use of computer I have no idea if that's possible. Can I get an external sound card and then hook up a digital recorder to that? What would be the ideal/smallest margin of error for a noob for that?


Help would be so appreciated. I already have 3 Behringer 8500 mics on the way with their respective cords, pop filter, headphone amp etc. If you can please not shame me for not buying the greatest mixer and help figure out a way to record this without the use of a computer. I'd love to take a flash drive or sd card and just pop it in on my computer at home after. I was looking at the Zoom H2 but don't know how that would work, I'm now at a wall and found the site and seems like a wealth of good info.


Bonus Question if you got the time: A guy wants to sell me a Multicom-pro XL compressor that he says will help a lot with clipping and levelling everyone's voices respectively. It sounds appealing, which I figured I'd send through the mixer on the send in/send out but will that work? And is it overkill for starting out right now since I already have the mixer? I want it to sound professional to the common person if I'm going to do this. I'm either slow (possible) or there's not a lot of info out there. Especially since everything is so specific for all the variations of products and setups and I have a mixer it seems like only 10 other people on Amazon have tried lol.
 
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Edit to the above title, I do not wish to record with computer, computer would be used after I record the podcast when I go home for post-production
 
Im in the Pro Audio business and Pyle is considered bottom of the barrel low end product. if you want a really great quality small compact desktop mixer, get one with good preamps, the convertor is only as good at the Preamps on the device.

Check out the Allen & Heath ZED-i line of mixers, they make a great little mixer called the ZED-i8, it has 2 great quality Class A D.I inputs for instruments and great high gain low noise preamps and and a 24bit/96kHz sample rate USB interface... the mixer is under $200
 
Can't speak to a mixer but I would think you could go out from the mixer to some type of handheld recorder. Tascam makes some and there are others - might look at portable recorders on B&H Photo. You can record to the SD card in the recorder, then you can work with the SD card or via USB from the recorder which is seen as an external drive by your PC.
 
Short answer: I would just take the stereo out from the mixer into a Zoom H4n. Then pull the file from the H4n into your computer via USB cable. Edit using Audacity (free software). You can do compression in Audacity, but that's not much help to fix the problems in an already mixed channel.

Better solution: see what courses are offered at your local community college, or try to apprentice yourself to a local sound tech.

Good luck!

Cheers, Jim
 
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