Dawless

Yeah dawless is kind of a misnomer, named after the thing people dislike: sitting at a computer.

As far as I can see, most dawless performances are still recorded into a daw. Some might even mix it in one.

Of course you should do what suits you. If you’re having fun, it’s good music. So if you set the mix before you perform and just record into a field recorder, all the power to you.

If your mixer has busses or multiple master outs you could even hook up your phone and record directly onto there. Easy sharing 👍

I think it just refers to the way the music is composed or performed as this influences the song in a way.

The mixing and mastering stage is most likely not a good idea to do on a tascam harddisk recorder or sthg even if its doable. DAWs with plugins are just on a different level there.

For the most part, it's about performance. The idea is to get off a screen and into a more tactile workspace.

Your average person isn't going to have the financial capacity to afford equipment that can do mastering outside of a computer.

So, some folks use a stand alone recorder, some use their MPC. I happen to have a mixer that can record channels. I take my instrument outputs and put them into a DAW, eventually.