church recording

Cliff Waterman · Post by **Cliff Waterman** » 9 Feb 2009 12:23 pm

What would be a good simple recording system we could use for our church to record sermons? We only need to record voice, never music. We purchased the Omega Desktop Recording Studio with the Cubase LE and the Lexicon interface hoping it would be simple and that it would have some editing capability with it so we could add and announcer or a music prelude, etc. but the sound tech we had that wanted this is not longer here and no one knows how to use this. I am somewhat computer literate, but don't know if I have the time or the patience to dig into this program. I would basicilly like to just have someone hit the record button and then have the ability to edit it, crop it, and then burn to CD. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Rick Campbell · Post by **Rick Campbell** » 9 Feb 2009 12:32 pm

What you've got should do it. You'll just need to figure it out. It's probably not as complicated as it first appears to be. If you want simple, go with this:

Cliff Waterman · Post by **Cliff Waterman** » 9 Feb 2009 12:46 pm

Hey Rick,
It probably is simplier than I think, I just don't have hours or patience to read volumes of manuels with this software. Thanks for your idea, but we are trying to get away from cassettes and go to CD.

Rick Campbell · Post by **Rick Campbell** » 9 Feb 2009 3:46 pm

Don't you have any teenagers that go to this church? They can figure this stuff out a lot quicker than us guys. They are growing up in the digital domain.

John Lemieux · Post by **John Lemieux** » 13 Feb 2009 6:30 pm

Cliff check out the zoom h4you wont believe your ears.Music, spoken, super easy let us know

John Gould · Post by **John Gould** » 13 Feb 2009 6:58 pm

There are a bunch of small field recorders out there now. They all sound great the zoom H-2 the Roland R-09
and someone just came out with something that turns a I-POD into a field recorder. Yhe next thing would be a mini Disk recorder they still make pocket size versions of those with built in mics.
Even something like the Roland BR-600 would be good.

Bill Carpenter · Post by **Bill Carpenter** » 3 Mar 2009 3:42 pm

If the interface is hooked up probably via a USB port.

If the software is installed and recognizes the interface.

Open a new project and set up your empty tracks, there should be a record button on each track. Plug a mic into the interface and adjust the gain to your liking arm the appropriate track(push record on that track) push the main record button and start recording.

Hope this helps

George Kimery · Post by **George Kimery** » 7 Apr 2009 2:25 pm

I 2nd just using a Zoom H2. Easy to use and sounds great. Just place it near the sound source, turn it on, and walk away. I just plug it into a CD recorder to make a CD. You can do some editing on the H2, but if you want to do a lot more, hook it up to the computer. This thing sounds really good and is not much bigger than a pack of cigarettes and runs on 3 AAA batteries or an AC adapter. Check out my post on the recording section (Zoom H2: Record in WAV or MP3)

Tony Prior · Post by **Tony Prior** » 8 Apr 2009 2:53 am

there'e a much easier way..

have someone else do it !

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