We still have the unsolved problem of recording our sessions at the rehearsal room. So I took an hour of time and went to Musik Hug, which is my favourite music shop in Zurich. They always have very competent salespersons. What I basically wanted to know is what kind of portable recorders there are on the market at the moment. I know about the Edirol recorder – my singing teacher owns one. It has a really very good internal microphone but you can only do one track recording with that and I’d prefer to have at least two tracks.
Therefore, the Zoom handy recorder would be nice. It can record four tracks and it has a direct mic input.
There are even bigger ones with 16 tracks and even other solutions which need a computer, what makes it less handy but more exact to record even the drums.
It’s as usual with music equipment: there is way too much and way too many possibilities to take spontaneous decisions. And money is, of course, a factor as well. So I will sleep over it a few times and I will discuss it with my mates and hopefully find a quick and good solution.