What do you use for Quick Recording?

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Considering getting a Shure MV88 condenser mic for my phone for quick recordings. I’m tired of crap iPhone recordings at home for riffs or just general recording. What do you use and what have you compared for in room recording?
 
Depends how quick and whether it's at home or somewhere else.

I have a tablet with audacity in my living room, and sometimes will just use that for riffs, with the internal mic. But most of the time I'll just use my normal recording setup and lay down ideas to a click or drum loop, and come back later to seperate the wheat from the chaff.

I'm not big on recording riffs or whatever while I'm away from home - that would require some kind of pocket recorder. If that's what you're asking, I don't have any solutions for you.
 
Yep looking for something mobile friendly to take to guitar trade shows or keep nearby for easy setup to capture the room. Zoom used to be the goto niche but they have an odd frequency processed sound to them.
 
iRig Pre is cool but it still requires some mic and mic placement experimentation. In front or just off to the side and off-axis seems to work with the Audix D3 mic I have. SM57 seemed to need to be fairly close mic'd to sound better than the Audix.
 
For quick in-the-room-sound clips I usually just use my Tascam DR-44WL; fuckin thing works great and captures entire band performances shockingly well

Also, you can connect two additional external mics to it if you like
 
So did you check out the Zoom Q2n4K?

Have not seen any complaints on it and people have used them for full band live recordings. Happy with mine but I'm not doing anything professional that's for sure :D
 
I went and snabbed the Shure MV88 condenser mic for iPhones and love the app and interface for capturing quick recordings. It doesn’t do well dead on to a 4x12 but off to the side sounds exactly as the room sounds. I’m not a fan of zoom for quick captures because it adds a stereo spread to everything you record and seems to mess with the EQ a bit in the process with my ears. I’m happy with the Shure condenser mic
 
RME Babyface for the audio interface and a Suhr Reactive Load for the amps. Or just the Fractal FM3. Both sound fantastic.
 
Pod X3 into Korg D1200mkII.

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For less 'quick',

Two Notes Torpedo Live into A&H GSR24 into Alesis HD24XR. :cool:

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311splawndude said:
So did you check out the Zoom Q2n4K?

Have not seen any complaints on it and people have used them for full band live recordings. Happy with mine but I'm not doing anything professional that's for sure :D
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I agree with this completely. I’ve played around with this Zoom and gotten fine results live in the room.
 
Axe/IO->Amplitube->Logic. quick and dirty but works for demoing stuff.
 
Axe-Fx III as PC audio device in Reaper

Works great.
 
For on the fly in the moment ideas?? Voice memo of my iPhone - true story - I've captured countless new riffs and hooks and segues just by getting them onto my iPhone

But since I play through a recording desk - amps, effects, CaptorX's, in-line processors (when needed), DAW, and monitor/headphone outs to hear my stuff; recording is simply a matter of hitting a toggle on my desktop and capturing whatever comes to mind.
 
Yep, if I didn't already own the Torpedo Live, the Captor X would be my choice, since you can use it stand-alone as a do-all (loadbox + attenuator + cab sim/IR loader) too.
 
if we're talking spur-of-the-moment, I just use my camera and record video. I have one of the shure mics for my phone, but it's not like I carry it around with me, so if an idea hits and I want to capture it immediately, I just use my phone.

If I'm at the house, I just run to my laptop, through my Kemper into Studio One.
 
I used a zoom q3. It came out great.
Really cheap. And quality sound video
 
That was recorded concert volume. Full stack. Came out pretty clear. Think there are mic condensers. 3 mic in the one I had. No clipping
 
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