Can I record directly from this Scarlett (or any other model) to an external USB Hard Drive directly, without using a PC or a Mac?
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No, you need some kind of processing device to lay the data on the hard drive disk, like an operating system.
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Yes you can. I would rate my dp-004 rather highly except for the flaw that i have never been able to upload my music to my PC computer via the usb cable. Perhaps if someone could explain it to me in very simple terms i might step by step do it. But the instructions from tascam are either ambiguous or confusing or simply wrong, because i have never ben ablr to save my recordings to PC.
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I,m not 100 percent sure , but any computer with a line in and half decent audio software will accept it fairly well as this is how I am recording atm , but naturally keeping an eye on your input levels becomes your biggest problem , sorry couldn't answer exact question , :(
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It's not a USB microphone, but if you use any audio interface you can use it to record into a computer. I personally use it to record vocals and acoustic guitar through a focusrite Scarlett 2i2 interact
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Any usb interface with xlr inputs will work. You want to use an xlr cable to connect the mic to the interface. As far as brands go, i use Focusrite but any interface you can afford should do the trick
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Brandon, Good news and bad news. The ART Tube mp project is a great preamp and can warm tones greatly! On to the other side and to answer your question. You will need an audio interface. I use and recommend a Focusrite Scarlett series which feature XLR and 1/4 inch inputs to a USB output. I personally use a 2i2 model which features 2 inputs to USB and sells for $150 on Amazon. If you only need 1 channel then the Focusrite solo @ $99 will work for you. Read reviews and search youtube and I am sure you will find this the way to go. Sorry to double or triple your expenses, but it has worked fantastic for me with instruments or mics into a DAW computer based system. Hope this helps..... Brandon, Good news and bad news. The ART Tube mp project is a great preamp and can warm tones greatly! On to the other side and to answer your question. You will need an audio interface. I use and recommend a Focusrite Scarlett series which feature XLR and 1/4 inch inputs to a USB output. I personally use a 2i2 model which features 2 inputs to USB and sells for $150 on Amazon. If you only need 1 channel then the Focusrite solo @ $99 will work for you. Read reviews and search youtube and I am sure you will find this the way to go. Sorry to double or triple your expenses, but it has worked... » Read More Brandon, Good news and bad news. The ART Tube mp project is a great preamp and can warm tones greatly! On to the other side and to answer your question. You will need an audio interface. I use and recommend a Focusrite Scarlett series which feature XLR and 1/4 inch inputs to a USB output. I personally use a 2i2 model which features 2 inputs to USB and sells for $150 on Amazon. If you only need 1 channel then the Focusrite solo @ $99 will work for you. Read reviews and search youtube and I am sure you will find this the way to go. Sorry to double or triple your expenses, but it has worked fantastic for me with instruments or mics into a DAW computer based system. Hope this helps..... « Show Less
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No, this is not a usb Mic. You need a preamp or midi input that will in turn conned to your mac.
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No external audio drivers needed in Windows and Mac. Installs automatically. Mixer quality for home user not professional. Good Luck.
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Ryan and Paul are correct, you need to have a USB interface. I also use a Scarlett (the 2i4), a fairly inexpensive device, in between the dbx and the computer.
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I have not tried it, but a mic with a mini-USB plug ***might*** provide external microphone capabilities.
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SueEllen - The only external output (other than the speaker) is a standard earphone jack. The recorder has no way of saving/exporting the audio in mp3 format or any other format. I suppose there may be software for PC/Mac/Linux to take input via a sound card and save it as an mp3 file, in which case connecting from the earphone jack to the sound card might work. But I assume you're looking for a more robust solution. This recorder definitely isn't designed for that purpose. From your question, I'm not sure if you have it already or not; I assume probably not. It's a very good recorder and a very good value, but very likely not what you'll want if saving the audio on a computer is a requirement.
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A USB cable will come with the interface (i.e., the Focusrite Scarlett I mentioned) and plugs into a USB port on your Mac. That's part of the hardware. But you still need recording/editing software on your Mac (like Twisted Wave, Audacity, Reaper) to record and edit.
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Hey Adam! I have done a bit of "digital audio recording" myself on Logic Express 9. I have managed to do this on an early 2008 white macbook (2.1GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1GB RAM, and a 120 GB 5400 rpm). I ran into a few problems with the hard drive being to slow and the application crashing because I didn't have enough RAM. Though I never ran into problems with the processor, and there is a reason for this. Recording software doesn't rely on the processor as much as it does the RAM and hard disk speed. A 2.4 GHz i5 is plenty for your needs. The things you should pay attention to are RAM, which this computer has 4 GB of (unless you are recording/mixing more than 7 or 8 tracks this will be plenty). It is expandable to 16 gb, which is probably enough RAM to handle time travel. And the hard drive speed...which if you manage your computers files well, and don't let it get all bogged down like a ...*gulp* WinDoWs ComPuTRe...then you will be ok ;). Basically what im getting at is that the i5 model will work just fine n' dandy, and as for the i7? You would just be buying a higher capacity, graphically faster (video games, videos, making shapes with the mouse pointer, the list goes on) laptop that has a better resale value. Hope this helped. -Andy
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I would be grateful if you could post how you did this a mic on your computer. I have now tried a couple of ways and as the other poster had said, it did not work. I plugged it into the mic jack on my laptop. I then tried recording with 1) Sound recorder (under Microsoft Accesories) and with 2) Audicity. For Auditicy, I verified it could record fine w/o the mic and made sure I had the source input for auditcity be a microphone. so it appears the other poster is correct - but if you know some trick, please post so the rest of us can use it! (or if you realize you were mistaken, it would help us to know that too.) Thanks much. I would be grateful if you could post how you did this a mic on your computer. I have now tried a couple of ways and as the other poster had said, it did not work. I plugged it into the mic jack on my laptop. I then tried recording with 1) Sound recorder (under Microsoft Accesories) and with 2) Audicity. For Auditicy, I verified it could record fine w/o the mic and made sure I had the source input for auditcity be a microphone. so it appears the other poster is correct - but if you know some trick, please post so the rest of us can use it! (or if you realize you were mistaken, it would help... » Read More I would be grateful if you could post how you did this a mic on your computer. I have now tried a couple of ways and as the other poster had said, it did not work. I plugged it into the mic jack on my laptop. I then tried recording with 1) Sound recorder (under Microsoft Accesories) and with 2) Audicity. For Auditicy, I verified it could record fine w/o the mic and made sure I had the source input for auditcity be a microphone. so it appears the other poster is correct - but if you know some trick, please post so the rest of us can use it! (or if you realize you were mistaken, it would help us to know that too.) Thanks much. « Show Less
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No direct USB/pc connection with this. I bought a "Behringer XENYX 1204USB 12-Input 2/2 Bus Mixer w/USB" (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003EUX2QM/ref=oh_details_o02_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&ps;c=1) so that I can use my pc to do the recording and editing.
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That depends. We have not used it for that purpose. The best way would be to split both the mic input and the computer audio output, mix them and then record onto a recorder (this one or another) directly through the line in input.
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Yeah that's how you do it! Weird I have the exact same set up, I bought the limited edition gold rokit 5s from guitar center a month or two ago. All you gotta do is go into your control panel and click on sound and devices, and set the Scarlett as your input and output. So the sound from your computer goes out to your interface then out from there to the rokits. Hope this helped!