Looking for a way to record live music with a portable device...any suggestions?

Question

I'm in a band and we are looking for a somewhat affordable and easy way to record our gigs. We have a guy with a mixer and all that, but we want something easier to do at every show. Any ideas on how we could record the shows? The idea we are going for is similar to having an old school cassette player in the audience somewhere, only we want one that records as mp3's or onto cd.

Answer 1

Real-time recording on a CD is almost impossible. Modern CD recorders are much faster than 1x recording, so there will be constant buffer underflow.

You need something hard-disc based. Then you can create your own MP3s or CDs. I recommend a very cheap or old PC or laptop. Connect a microphone in the audio input and using the built-in recorder you can capture audio to the HDD. Then process as you please.