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I would like to tape my shows.  There is an output jack on my Fender amp that is available for such a purpose.  Before spending any money on a suitable recording device, I've been playing around with a stereo system I already have.  It includes a tuner, turntable, cassette player/recorder and amplifier(?).

I have plugged the line from the Fender into the AUX/CD jack on the amplifier(?).  While recordings from the tuner is clear and has substantial volume, the recordings from the Fender's output is muffled and of no listening value. Can someone please explain why that is?

Most important, I need any advice on a taping/recording device I can purchase, preferably for less than $50, that will provide the results I'm seeking!

What is the model number of your amp?

For recording get a DAT used from an on-line auction site.  Wonderful machines but they have been suplanted by other technology and are now pretty cheap.  I paid $1300.00 for mine new and it's now worth about $75.00 on a good day with a tail wind.  OY!

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Okay, who took my pants?

For free, you can use your laptop and audacity.

Recording a live show and getting good quality sound would be almost impossable outside of a recording studio. Expecially if you have no control over the layout of the building. The only way i know of is to get a 8 track recorder and  record each channel seperate thru your system. I would run them thru a mixing board before so you could fine tune each channel as it enters the recorder that way  you could adjust it to your liking. But that could get way expensive.

Multitrack is the best way, however like Jian said the computer & Audacity will work fine.  If you know what you are doing as far as mixing, then the result will come out fairly decent, no nowhere near studio quality, but most people that get a recording of themself just want it for fun anyway.  If you listen to many of the subs on the Singers Showcase, some of those are done with the computer mic & 1 take with no effects, distorted & they are happy because it's just a souvenier.  Everything I have submitted was recorded live.  Click on my Showcase button (the yellow one under neath my post) to listen.
I run Audacity for recording my shows and am pretty happy with the result overall.  Individualize each singer per track & then some basic finalizing/normalizing/dynamics, snip the dead air off the ends & fade out the end.  Each track can be exported into a mp3/wav/ogg file individually so it works out very well & again, best of all - it's free!

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The only way is tracking vocals into wav files then using software mix with the backing.
That way they can be eq'd and FX added.  Also vst plugins like this can be used.

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I have a Tascam burner on my rig... don't use it often but occasionally someone will bring their own music in ask me to record them. Doesn't take much time and the quality is excellent. Hard to believe, in fact, that it is done live. Very little crowd noise is picked up. Not free but very easy to use... I have used these recordings to submit demos for auditions.

If I could figure out how to post on showcase I would - haven't even read up on it. Maybe someone could tell me how easy it is????

K

I use Zoom H4. Took time to get settings right but results are excellent visit my site
www.costakaraoke.com to listen.

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Regards
Brian

CostaKaraoke - you have an excellent website!

K

Thanks for your comments Karen really appreciate.

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Brian