I researched both of those units you mentioned. I don't want to record on a cassette deck, so I
did a few more hours of research today on about 80 different units from companies. Most of the
units costing less than 600 dollars only allows recording up to two channels at a time. The ones
using memory sticks seem useless to me, considering that I like to work in at least half hour
increments. Might as well spend more money for something with a harddrive, since the extra memory
sticks are going to add up quickly.
I want to record 4 channels at a time, so I can change the tempo of my drum machine on the
fly, rather than having to pre-record it on the units that only allow two track recording.. For
multitracking all at once, it starts getting pretty pricey. However, For $799.00 there's a
harddrived unit, the ZOOM MRS1608, which seems to have a lot of features for the money, plus the
ability to dump it all over to the PC as uncompressed Wave files.
A simple 4 track minidisc recorder would be nice for my needs, but that would make life too
uncomplicated, wouldn't it? So, I guess I may cough up the extra cash for some extra bells and
whistles...
al

Garrett Cox wrote:

Yeah I downgraded from a Digi 002 since i'm not doing much recording
of other bands. Nothing for money anyway. I purchased a new Tascam
424mkIII 4 Track cassette recorder and I really dig it. It's pretty
fun and make you think a little more creatively rather than "dood let
use the neve eq plugin."

cheers

garrett

(EggHd) wrote in message ...
I have been researching this for the past week, and I see that TASCAM has a
minidisc 4 track recorder workstation (although it's really 12 channels,
they say- which confuses me. Why call it a 4, if it's a 12?),

It has 12 INPUT channel that can be routed to the 4 TRACKS of the recorder.

I used a Yamaha 8 track mini disc recorder for demos and found the sound to be
"fine" for that purpose. In fact, I kinda dug that little unit for being do
simple to use.



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