I play blues and old vintage R&B along with some classical recitals. I started out recording my bands and classical guitar/lute performances live with a $200 JVC home system cassette recorder that had one mic input and actually got some pretty fair results. Last year I purchased a Superscope PSD300, along with some other low end mics and pres. which have served very well for demos to get gigs,etc...
I can't wait to get some better high end mics & pres to hopefully take the best of live gigs and release a recording.

I concur with the old Grateful Dead philosophy of recording every and all performances although some of my musician mates think I'm pretty wierd recording even the less significant gigs and rehearsals, etc...One drummer even making snide comments like "So is all this recording for the Smithsonian archives?"

The main problems I have is that I am usually fronting my band and playing guitar while trying to watch record levels, etc...out of the corner of my eye, all at the same time! It is a bit distracting, but blues is a very "live" oriented, spontaneous genre, and I am very happy to have saved many of those exceptionally inspired performances (along with some uninspired, out of tune,etc..) for my Smithsonian archives!!

John Hedger