[Hidden-tech] audio recording software for Mac

[Adam Bauer]

Hi Fern et al,
My $0.02 is that I personally found the Zoom H2/H4 to be maddeningly un-easy
to use, sometimes stumping several of us at once, all musicians and folks
used to working with small machines, and yielding no recording of whatever
event we all were attending/playing at. I love my Sony D-50, bought new a
couple years ago for around $500 (Sony D1 also great but 4x cost)--easy UI,
great sound, built solid (unlike the cheap-feeling H2/H4.

The Zoom unit seemed to sound decent, but using it drove me nuts enough to
return it within a month.

Editing afterwards, sadly, I can offer no help with--but my ears are tuned
to the responses here!

Good luck and happy recording,

Adam


on 6/11/10 4:35 PM, Will Loving at will at dedicationtechnologies.com wrote:

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> 
> Hi Fern,
> 
> The simplest thing to do is buy a Zoom H2 or H4 recorder and do the
> recording to that. The Zoom recorders are a great deal for the money and are
> easy to use (except for the too small screen). Then you can edit in Fission,
> Audacity, GarageBand, ProTools, etc, etc...
> 
> Fission is an inexpensive tool that contains no filters or compressor, but
> does is excellent for basic editing including: splits, fade in/out,
> normalize, +/- gain on selections, etc. It's BIG advantage is that it is
> lossless. It works directly in the original file format and saves to the
> original format; no proprietary intermediary formats to deal with. MP3 in,
> MP3 out; WAV in, WAV out, etc. Of course you can use QuickTime to save in
> alternate formats if you want to. It will also open a 2GB file very quickly,
> because it's not doing any transcoding.
> 
> Will
> 
> Will Loving, President
> Dedication Technologies, Inc.
> 
> 
> 
> on 6/11/10 2:42 PM, fern at radiodjfern at yahoo.com wrote:
> 
>>    ** Be sure to fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area.
>>    ** If you did, we all thank you.
>> 
>> 
>> I have a client who wants me to record his wedding ceremony.
>> any suggestions on inexpensive audio recording software for Mac?
>> 
>> 
>> Fern
>> 
>> 
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