Jim Lesurf wrote:
In article , Richard Steinfeld
wrote:



The most awesome way that I know of to record off the air is with a
Video Cassette Recorder (hi-fi, stereo). The drill is that you leave
your radio tuner on and use the VCR's timer to switch on the recording
at the preferred time. I actually bought a VCR specifically to record a
program that comes on on Sunday morning at 4:00 AM. And then I
discovered that I'm located in the shadow of the broadcast signal and
can't receive acceptable audio from the station.



I use the recorders to make CDRs from Cassettes and tapes of old radio
recordings as well as from FM (analogue) and DAB (digital input) and DTTV
(digital input). A VCR would not be much use for this, and would be
inconvenient I'm afraid.

FWIW I do have a DVD video recorder, and use that to record both TV and
radio via DTTV. But that does not produce CDs, and has no digital inputs...

Slainte,

Jim


I think the most awesome way has to be a PC or Mac - it's simply the
easiest way to edit, title, store, archive, record and burn. If you
understand what they do (I don't) the processing effects seem quite
powerful. It's also far and away the cheapest, especially if you have a
computer already. The (old!) Mac Minis are being sold off for c.250UKP
(albeit rather basic - more RAM and an external USB soundcard might be
needed, plus monitor/kb) - an ideal little audio processing platform IMO.

Your route of enquiry is fine if you want to keep computers out of the
chain, perhaps for reasons of noise or clutter.

Rob