Akai DPS16 with Yamaha Burner

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I am selling my AKai DPS16 with Yamaha CD Burner for $1200.00 plus shipping charges.

The unit has the 10 gig hard drive. Version 3 update loaded in. A Yamaha 8x8x24 burner. Everything is like new. The unit has some discoloration where the stickers were but other than that its in good working order. I accept Paypal and money orders.

Email me if youre interested in Pictures.

And you can go here for examples of songs that were recorded with this machine

http://www.nowhereradio.com/sondriven/singles

Thanks

john
 
AKAI DPS16

dO YOU STILL HAVE THE DPS. iF SO YOU ARE ASKING WAY TO MUCH. iF YOU STILL HAVE IT i WOULD BE INTERENTED TO BUY FOR $650.00 BECAUSE OF THE LOW MEMORY AND CONDITION, i DON'T NEED THE CDRW. Thank You!
 
Thank you for noticing that the Akai is too much money, I dont think you observed the date on which the message was posted. (April 2002) on that date this was a decent price for the unit and a CD Burner. Now I think you can buy one brand new for $800.

Yes it was sold for $1000 in May. Thanks for the inquiry.

What are you wanting to do with the recorder? Will you be home based? Traveling? I may be able to recommend some things to you. The Akai wasnt a fit for what I was doing and have found more efficient was of recording. I would like to hear.

Thanks.

j
 
reply about recorder

I was going to use the recorder for home recording of rap music and lyrics. mainly because of its sample rate quality. Tell me what you think, is there something more efficent for what I'm wanting to do.
 
It depends upon how many tracks youre wanting to do. How deep do you want to go in terms of editing after the recording?

My beef with sample rates:

I used the Akai and tested the 24 96 sample rate against the 16 44. There was hardly any difference for me to even notice except that it took up more space on the hard drive. A lot has do with the equipment you are recording with. Low end stuff or high end? If youre using a $100 mic, youre just going to record a clearer $100 mic if you know what I mean.

Number one priority for a clean recording is clean gear. My advise for you doing home recording would be to get a decent mic and a nicer pre-amp. Then use the left over money for a recording system. Do you have a computer?

Computers are probably the easiest way to go. For a start on some computer software download a demo of Cool Edit Pro 2.0.

I use that and have been getting pretty good results. One of my latest songs was recorded with it. You can check it out if you:

http://www.nowhereradio.com/sondriven/singles

"Everything"

This song is a few months old and have actually gotten better. Let me know if youre looking into better sound quality.



Peace
 
Hey Sondriven...

Would you be so kind as to jog your memory & tell me a bit about the fx and dynamics on your old DPS 16? What about editing? I'm really interested in the DPS 24 - still investigating the major differences between the two. Sure, I can afford the 24 but if the most significant difference is 8 tracks, I'd do without. Have you heard the fx on the yamaha workstations? If so, how do they compare to the Akai units?

<i know, i know, this is an old "for sale" thread>

if you can offer up any info it'd be much appreciated.

thanks either way.

flo' dolo
 
Flo,

Yeah, no problem. Glad to help you out. I personally liked the delays, reverbs and the pitch corrector effects the best. The distortion is pathetic, the chorus is so-so and the flange is crap. But for the other three I used on almost everysong.

I havent checked much into the DPS24, but it looks pretty cool. The thing about these workstations is that I think its hard to record, mix and master to CD on one machine. All the ads for these say how easy it is, but personally I found that doing all this stuff on my computer is all more time saved. Plus you can see a lot better. So it all depends on what youre doing, like I said before, if youre going to record in different rooms and places of course the DPS 16 or 24 is a good choice. But to be at home in a corner recording, Id say go with the computer route. Nowadays you can a lot more for your money with software and a computer combined.

You know I havent heard the FX on the Yamaha stations but Im sure there not bad, just like on the DPS machines.

I do extensive editing so the Akai was a terrible match for me. Vocals for example: I like to go through the recorded audio of a vocal line and take out all the licked lips and coughs. Those things are really easy to see on the computer screen and its just a matter of pointing and clicking the crap out. With my akai, this stuff was a huge hassle. Id have to find the two points I would want to remove audio from. So it looked like this:

From: 12:20:230 To: 12:30:341

Seriously sucked. And to do this for every single track. But thats how it was with the 16 unit. If the 24 has a mouse and stuff which I dont think it does then to me editing on the portable machines is crazy.

I hope I helped. The positive side of the Akai is the great sound quality. And now with the larger hard drives you can get a lot more milage out of the machine.

Peace

j
 
Thanks man...

The DPS 24 seems to be a bit nicer when it comes to editing and the like (waveform) and the LCD is a bit larger. AKAI.SYS is supposed to allow for editing too, as opposed to just viewing in the near (probably a year, huh?!?) future. Also, akai has been gearing up for the 24 to utilize VST plug-ins alongside a host machine. Sounds cool, but maybe it's a bit stupid to not go all computer-based if that's the case. I guess the arguments could be made both ways...

The sound quality issue is an interesting one for me. Everyone, no matter what brand box they use, all say the akai is very musical. Great EQs and the like. Still digging, I am. Not mad at my mini-motu setup, but I need another rig, methinks.

Thanks again...

Flo' Dolo
 
Youre welcome

That is cool about the 24 if you can run VST Effects with it. But like you said "Why not go all computer based."

I think if youre not travelling with the machine then go computer. Nowadays you just cant beat them.

Peace Brother
 
Let me butt in here and agree with sondriven. Recording on a portable is okay, but editing? Forget it! I use my Roland VS880EX for recording, but send it to a computer for editing…there’s no comparison. I might add that I’m impressed with the built in effects of the VS880EX…200 fully editable patches. It’s worth it just for effects alone (used).
 
Yup, if the VS Series are anything like the Akai Units editing just completely sucks. So that brings up the issue. If you get a clean recording using a decent soundcard into the computer then why not just go computer all the way?

I made a mistake when buying the Akai. It just didnt suit my needs.


My best advice is to be smart and really look deep into what you really need and not at all the cool features and sound quality that you probably wont even use. Its too bad you cant demo those things extensively.


j
 
Thanks to both of you for your responses. Something portable is kinda important for me, besides, I'm gonna use it with my turntables for programming my radio shows and as a secondary recording/mixing setup...

The editing on the 24 is decent - graphic, not numbers, but I still feel like blending physical hd recorders and external computer-based fx is stupid. Maybe I'm just an effing idiot. The folks at DPS world would think so since they all seem to be so excied about it. Anyway, I also heard about a box built to be a host for vst plug-ins,maybe that's cool, treated like a standalone external processor, but i'm to hungry to work now to worry about it (not to mention the dreaded vaporware syndrome).

Too bad that tascam sx-1 isn't 24-32 tracks and about 3-4 grand cheaper...

Thanks again folks. Adios...

diendolo
 
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