Popular Event CD Recorder

Insider note – Microboards’ CopyWriter Live has been selling stronger and stronger every day. We’ve noticed as word gets around, certain products take on a life of their own, and CopyWriter Live is certainly one of them.

The thing that makes it fun to talk about is spanning – the second recorder starts burning its disc when the first one becomes full. That was popular on dual cassette decks, and frankly we’re surprised noone else has tried to imitate it.

Of course, the CWLive does everything else an event recorder needs to – it has XLR, RCA, and Mic inputs so you can burn from practically any source. And since it has two drives, we built copying capability into it to, so it doubles as a simple CD duplicator. And it comes with a rackmount kit, so it can be used as a desktop player or be integrated into a pro environment. All in all it’s pretty cool.

When our first review of the unit (by Fett in Performing Songwriter) hailed the piece as professional gear, I took it home to see whether I thought it would make the cut in a pro environment from a sound quality standpoint. I was pretty surprised at what I got – I burned our Church’s Christmas Program – without doing a sound check – and using a cheap pair of Mics and an even cheaper 4-channel mixer, and got a great CD out of it. Even I was surprised at the sound.

List price is $799 – and Octave is selling it for only $699 – so it’s even competitively priced against other machines with less features.

Not bad.

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