We are a small church and generally record our Sunday a.m. sermon. Currently, we use a cassette tape recorder and an old cassette duplicator. We send 5 or 6 tapes out to a few “friends” and occasionally copy one for someone at the service.
We want to convert to CDs. We need to be able to record the teaching (we do have a wireless mike – currently run into a small mixer & output to a cassette recorder). We need to be able to dup CDs. Cost should be as minimal as possible.
So, should we buy a stand-alone CD recorder? Or record onto a PC? If we do that, what software would be needed?
Duplicating is another question. Stand alone units do that, but seem to be slow. Dedicated CD duplicating machines seem to be efficent, but kind of a waste of financial resources, but would be easy for even a non-technical person to use.
A simple PC with a CD reader & writer would probably not be really expensive… However, are there writers that will do more than one CD at a time – something that we could replace the “standard burner” with?
Cost is a definate factor. We are a REALLY small church – and are not professional sound/computer guys.
Ideas?? Anyone else do this?? (Maybe on a bigger scale.)
Thanks!