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MR8HD replacement
Hi Guys,
I'm looking for a replacement for my MR8HD for the "small kit". Local gear pusher suggested Zoom R16. I kinda like it and I kinda worry that it is likely to also lack roadworthyness, but the control surface ability looks interesting. Suggestions, comments, alternative solutions? - basic requirement is 4 channels simultanous recording for import to daw. Cost matters. Kind regards Peter Larsen |
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MR8HD replacement
On 2/2/2011 9:29 AM, Peter Larsen wrote:
I'm looking for a replacement for my MR8HD for the "small kit". Local gear pusher suggested Zoom R16. I kinda like it and I kinda worry that it is likely to also lack roadworthyness So at that price, buy two. That's probably still less than you paid for your Fostex (if that's the MR8HD you're talking about) unless you didn't buy it new. Besides, what's to be less roadworthy? It's smaller, lighter, doesn't have a hard drive. I'd be more concerned with how big of a pain it is to operate. -- "Today's production equipment is IT based and cannot be operated without a passing knowledge of computing, although it seems that it can be operated without a passing knowledge of audio." - John Watkinson http://mikeriversaudio.wordpress.com - useful and interesting audio stuff |
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MR8HD replacement
Mike Rivers wrote:
On 2/2/2011 9:29 AM, Peter Larsen wrote: I'm looking for a replacement for my MR8HD for the "small kit". Local gear pusher suggested Zoom R16. I kinda like it and I kinda worry that it is likely to also lack roadworthyness So at that price, buy two. That's probably still less than you paid for your Fostex (if that's the MR8HD you're talking about) unless you didn't buy it new. New at DKK 3800 in 2007. Found out recently that too much compression is not good for audio and can cause it to appear to be monophonic, at least when the compressed sonic object is the harddisk-recorder. which is to say that only channel 1 would arm for record after I had foolishly left the small suitcase with mics, cables and preamp on top of the hardshell attache-case with the MR8HD, its side had bent inwards and allowed the weight to rest on the knobs. Besides, what's to be less roadworthy? It's smaller, lighter, doesn't have a hard drive. Actually it is more roadworthy by design having the high sides. I'd be more concerned with how big of a pain it is to operate. From the manual just recording should be simple .... I'd rather have the small Tascam 8-track but it is not a planned equipment upgrade and the gear pusher offers 1 week unconditional return, gonna go get one and try it, I haven't found much negative said about it and the control surface aspect of it could come in handy. Thanks Mike & Kind regards Peter Larsen |
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MR8HD replacement
Mike Rivers wrote:
On 2/2/2011 9:29 AM, Peter Larsen wrote: I'm looking for a replacement for my MR8HD for the "small kit". Local gear pusher suggested Zoom R16. I kinda like it and I kinda worry that it is likely to also lack roadworthyness So at that price, buy two. That's probably still less than you paid for your Fostex (if that's the MR8HD you're talking about) unless you didn't buy it new. Besides, what's to be less roadworthy? It's smaller, lighter, doesn't have a hard drive. I'd be more concerned with how big of a pain it is to operate. Just got a full refund at the gearpusher for the Zoom R16, headphone output limited in a way that is good for a 14 year old using it a basement toy, but not good for live location recording, I would have had to get a headphone amp, ie. one more box with one more wallwart. I could'ave lived with its fiddlyness if sound had been better than the MR8HD, but at a rapid evening test with talking into a mic it wasn't and the rendition of space around the voice was too limited. That is just my opinion at a rapid test and not a full A-B test, and the showstopper was the headphone output level, it had taken impressively good sound quality for it to overcome that, equal to the MR8HD had not been enough. The chamber music guys I record like the Fostex MR8HD stuff for a rapid location recording, I don't think they would be equally happy with the sound of the Zoom R16. So what I will do is to first check repairability of the broken MR8HD or get a new and try not to kill it. Kind regards Peter Larsen |
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