Recording Questions

Alright, now that I'm becoming a full-time myspace recording artist, I need to figure out the best way to get good quality audio recordings of myself on a pretty tight budget. Right now, I'm rocking this thing: http://www.amazon.com/Olympus-VN3100PC-Digital-Voice-Recorder/dp/B000I5JMYW

I got it a few years ago, and the sound quality's not the best. I did figure out how to record multiple tracks with this (record guitar only, put it on my ipod, listen to it with headphones while I record vox only on the recorder, put them together in audacity), but this is somewhat time-consuming, and hard to match up the tracks perfectly.

So, how can I get the best sound quality out of this thing? I'm talking direction of mic, placement of recorder (height/distance from me), etc. Or is there a relatively cheap newer product that would work a lot better than this? Thanks for any help I get

its hard to find decent recording stuff

i got nothing bro

thanks for all your help, seriously. from the bottom of my heart, thank you

I wish I could help. I'll ask sonme of my friends that doi the same thign, but most of them have makeshift studios, not just digital recorders.

yeah, i'm just chillin in my room playing right now. i've tried it in the bathroom, and it gives it a fuller tone, but there's a weird echo thing going on. i'm working on this multiple track recording thing. hopefully it'll give me a little bit better sound quality, but it seems every time i record the vocals, by the second verse, i've sped up way past the music for some reason. maybe i'm just retarded

zoom H4 or if you have the money Zoom H4n
4 track recording, can do two tracks at once and as far as I know, you can record one track, then play it back and record on another track. Mine is in transit right now, so I don't know for sure, but I've been reading up on them quite a bit and I remember reading something about it. I got mine for $160 shipped, you can get them cheaper, generally towards $200, just depends on how long you wanna wait until the right deal comes along.

man...the H4n looks really nice...i might look into selling my H2 and upgrading.

i LOVE my H2. all of my recordings were done on it. and you can get them for just over $100 now, it looks like.

there's also the option of putting your money on a decent mic/preamp/PC interface and recording directly to a laptop or desktop computer.

that said, something like one of the Zooms let you record anywhere you want, without the pain of setting up infrastructure.

I got my H4 today actually, just starting messing with it a little bit. Can't wait to hit up some shows and try this thing out. The H4n is an even more amazing guy, but can't really justify the cost, not that I could really justify the $150 I spent on the H4(screaming deal on eBay), but yeah...