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<blockquote data-quote="Jason Dermer" data-source="post: 26238" data-attributes="member: 234">Re: CD Burners?&nbsp;Tascam CDRW901, XLRs in and out, plus the usual assortment of other analog and digital IO. Depending on your expected use, I don&#039;t see CDR technology as dead. Case in point, Asbury Audio covers several club level venues. One, the Stone Pony, regularly does local showcases and Battle of the Band gigs as a way to (make money for the club/ fill slow nights <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ) find bands to open/ support larger shows. We have a better than 70% acceptance with bands recording their 1/2 hour sets direct to CD for $20.00. Hence, the trusty 10 year old CDRW700 (it was already used for a couple years of touring, and has NEVER needed service beyond running a lens cleaner through it a few times) that we put into the room when we first took it over in 2002 has returned NO JOKE over $80,000 through the years, split evenly between the club, monitor and FOH techs, and my company. We have no other piece of equipment with even close to the same ROI, not to mention the techs that have to deal with the BOTB locals are more than happy to leave with an extra 20-30 bucks cash in pocket each time.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jason Dermer, post: 26238, member: 234"] Re: CD Burners? Tascam CDRW901, XLRs in and out, plus the usual assortment of other analog and digital IO. Depending on your expected use, I don't see CDR technology as dead. Case in point, Asbury Audio covers several club level venues. One, the Stone Pony, regularly does local showcases and Battle of the Band gigs as a way to (make money for the club/ fill slow nights :) ) find bands to open/ support larger shows. We have a better than 70% acceptance with bands recording their 1/2 hour sets direct to CD for $20.00. Hence, the trusty 10 year old CDRW700 (it was already used for a couple years of touring, and has NEVER needed service beyond running a lens cleaner through it a few times) that we put into the room when we first took it over in 2002 has returned NO JOKE over $80,000 through the years, split evenly between the club, monitor and FOH techs, and my company. We have no other piece of equipment with even close to the same ROI, not to mention the techs that have to deal with the BOTB locals are more than happy to leave with an extra 20-30 bucks cash in pocket each time. [/QUOTE]

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