Microboards CWL6200 CopyWriter Live CD Recorder

 (2 customer reviews)

While a bit pricey for home use, this is a great tool for live recording. The controls are easy to learn, the manual is brief but complete- you aren't bombarded with a bunch of bells & whistles that you'd probably never use. You can easily feed a variety of signals, and either make two CDs at once or keep recording continuously as long a you keep feeding blank discs. And, make high speed copies of discs very easily.
Not fancy looking, but very well built- should last for years with reasonable care. Nice heavy duty rack mount ears included. This product is aimed at on-site recording- so no guitar tuners, effects, or other goofy add-ons put in bedroom recording studio units. This is all business, and does it well!
One small complaint- a better recording level meter would be nice, but set levels carefully before recording and all should be fine.

We purchased two of these machines to record high school and college football games that we have the rights to at our two radio stations. We really liked the concept of starting a second disc automatically when the first disc was getting full, one less thing for the control room operator to worry about during a live game. We also like the fact that they record live audio direct to audio CDs, eliminating the time consuming steps of recording to a .WAV file, breaking up the file into two or more parts if the content is longer than 70 minutes, then burning the segments to CD. If you have a really long show to record, no problem. One can go from A to B, then put a fresh disc in drive A and the machine will start recording on drive A when B gets full. In theory, one can keep going back and forth between the A and B decks until one runs out of blank discs.

Features: Besides being able to automatically start recording a new CD when one is getting full, the machine can be...Read more