Columbus Discount Recording

Recorders

MCI JH110-8 - One Inch Eight Track
We have two of them.They are synchronized for 14 track analog recording across two inches of tape.

The fidelity of an analog recording is, for the most part, due to the amount of tape each track has. For example, a two inch 16 track machine sounds, generally speaking, better than a two inch 24 track machine.

In the case of our machines, we essentially have a two inch 16 track rig. That is to say it has a lot of tape per track. It is a very low noise, high bandwidth system. It sounds really, really good.

Alesis HD 24 - 24 track digital hard disc recorder
This is a really clean, transparent sounding machine. Since it is a dedicated hard disc recorder, and not a personal computer set up to record audio, there is very little signal degradation when recording or backing up to it.

It has very futurisitc looking hard disc caddies that can be removed. With the help of a dedicated firewire device, we can fly tracks recorded to any DAW (pro-tools, cubase etc...)in and back out of the drives easily, which makes importing/exporting/DAW editing a snap.

We also use it to back up analog recordings for mixing in pro-tools/cubase/garageband and so on.

Pro-Tools LE - 24 track - MAC G4
We're not huge fans of pro-tools. Their insistence that anyone using their excellent software has to use their sub-par hardware is bunk. Their hardware has awkward gain staging and a very thin sound.

Having said that, we have it if you want to use it and we are well versed in it's operation.