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Find a friend who's got the equipment and the time. That's the cheapest way in your case.
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I'll bet you a million dollars there's someone in your college community who fancies himself or herself a recording engineer who'll do it for free.
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Ok so yesterday we tried running sm57s through a tascam us22 through some free recording software(can't remember which kind it's on my drummers computer), and it worked for a few seconds then the sound started to choke. We tried it many times and it always happened. Any ideas :idk:

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Reaper is not free, its $60. Best DAW for the $! Audacity is very good and free. An M-Audio interface and Audacity would be the way I would go.
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MeSoFuzzy wrote:Reaper is not free, its $60. Best DAW for the $! Audacity is very good and free. An M-Audio interface and Audacity would be the way I would go.
Eh; I just keep hitting the "still evaluating" key. Hence "free". Seriously though at $60 it really is worth it. :thumb:
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I'd avoid dealing with cassette recording unless you have a grand retro nostalgia for it.

The tape saturation isn't something I'd pursue - there's not enough going on tape fidelity-wise to have any real control over it.

I couldn't be happier to have just tossed that format aside; it was grand when it was the only game in town for economic reasons but doing it by choice....no way. I got out of 4 track cassette ASAP in my recording (first to reel, then to the later almost acceptable 8 track Tascams both reel and cassette). There's no nostalgia in tape hiss or bouncedown hell.

If your PC is choking after a few seconds of recording, there's a problem with (a) drivers (b) buffers (c) system specs.

Could be all of the above.
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D.o.S. wrote:I'll bet you a million dollars there's someone in your college community who fancies himself or herself a recording engineer who'll do it for free.
That's how my last band recorded. A case of beer and 2 months of weekend recording got our 5 track EP finished.
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