On Sat, 4 Jun 2005 19:25:14 +0100, mo wrote:

Hi
Going to a concert soon and I wnat to make a recording of it

I am told DAT recorders are the way to go.

I would advise against using DAT.

I think that DAT was intended to be a recordable, 'sister' format to
compact disc. DAT never became very successful as a consumer format. It did
find itself a short-lived niche in small recording studios. It offered good
quality two track recording onto a digital medium for a reasonable price.

However, DAT is largely superseded now. Mechanically, machines aren't very
robust as the tape is very much like a miniaturized video cassette. They
have all the draw backs of tape-based linear rather than random access. In
short, they are feature poor and cost ineffective compared to more modern
technologies such as mini disk and computer-based HD recording.

I'd be reluctant to take such a machine on unless someone was offering to
give me the machine for free.

For the rest of what you want to do, you need to learn about live music
recording. Perhaps you could ask the sound crew if you could take a live
feed from the mixing desk?

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