Yeah, I thought about the laptop idea - but i don't reeeelly have £600, and it would take a lot of saving up to do...
The way I'm looking at it is that I'm 17 - I have years to spend all my money on recording gear...Anything that I can get now that will be worth keeping later is a bonus, but right now I just want to be able to record stuff. It doesn't need to sound professional, I'll settle for "half decent"...as long as people don't listen to it and go "Woah that sounds shite" I'll be happy.
When I think about it, I can see that a decent spec computer would last me longer and produce better results than this digital thing - but it's expensive and when I'm only earning £200 a month, it's hard to justify spending £600-£800 on a new computer...But £250 on a cool little recording thingy I can manage.
I know that eventually it's not going to be good enough for what I want to record, but I'm not planning on making an album out of my bedroom anytime soon - and I'm beginning to accept that I don't necessarily need the best gear right at this moment. Previously, as I'm sure happens to all of us, I was looking at the recorder thingy and thinking "hmm, I could get one of these 8 track recorders for £200...oooh, there's a 16 track for only £400...oh look, there's a 24 track for £600...or i could get a laptop and do it all for £800" etc etc...
The same situation happened with buying a new amp...I started off wanting a 100 Vox Valvetronix, and ended up with an Engl Screamer - now I'm not complaining, and I know that the amp I have now has given me a lot better...ampyness...but I didn't really need it just for in my bedroom, and the occasional gig.
So I think I'm fairly set to get the Tascam thing for £250 and an SM57, at least for now...Then I can add to it at a later date, but at least it's something I can moce tracks onto my PC with.
However, Boss make a similar sort of thing which has a built in drum machine (which I might use to make backing tracks and stuff) but a smaller (1GB) Flash Memory Card...Not sure how much of a difference the smaller storage space would make, as I intend to offload everything to PC anyway - suggestions? :drink:
EDIT: That had a length to match one of Dave MC's legendary posts at ultimate-guitar.com :lol:
