It will record, certainly, but is unnecessarily complicated for that purpose and requires a laptop to run. You need to reread the information above.Īudacity is (primarily) an EDITOR (DAW, Digital Audio Workstation). Yes, there are lots of reasons why Audacity is NOT a good choice for you. It might be more cost effective than getting equipment and learning to use it and learning to mix and edit. If you’re not going to do this a lot, consider hiring a sound engineer who is familiar with this type of recording to make the recording.

You will also need a mic stand for each mic. Mics good enough to do what you want will probably run $50-100 each on the used market. The H6, which is a step up, is a more professional recorder with six independent tracks and six mic inputs, and no built-in mics. If you are going to record multiple tracks all at once, then it will work fine. If you are talking about layering the recordings, where you record one track at a time by yourself while listening to the other tracks previously recorded, I won’t be able to tell you whether/how to do that.

It mounts on a standard camera tripod with a 1/4-20 screw. It _will_ supply 48VDC phantom power to the external mics. The controls to do settings are a little fiddly working through the menus, but the basic controls you use all the time (Stop, Play, Record, Pre-amp gain, etc.) have dedicated buttons. Channels 3 and 4 take separate mic inputs.

Two of the channels have dedicated built-in condenser mics, which are plenty good enough for your purposes. Can be set up as 4-track simultaneous or a stereo pair plus two other tracks.

Audacity recording