extendedping
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well first off hi and I am pretty much a newbie. I have owned (well actually still do I guess) cubase and the presonus firepod but my laptop crashed last year and that was that. so I have decided I want to take the dedicated unit route to getting songs out. well let me give a bit of info on what I want to do. I am a guitarist, and I have about 15 completed songs that I want to get done and on cd. the songs would basically require drums, a few guitar tracks, vocals and bass, nothing fancy. I do own some stuff that might be helpful for recording as well---bfd drum software, a boss dr 880 as well as a zoom g9.2tt pedal. so here is what I am thinking I need
1) a unit that will be based for the most part on turning knobs as opposed to using a computer type of interface (like my cubase is). since I am an noob to me less may be more as long as it has the basics, and it has to be easy to use and learn
2) the ability to burn a cd directly from the unit. again for ease of use
3) the ability to plug my zoom pedal in and use those effects bypassing the effects in the unit if I want. also the ability to plug a bass directly in to record.
4) the ability to save to my external usb harddrive (or a usb drive or flash drive perhaps???).
5) must be able to interact with the boss dr 880 so I can record with drums and even better would be the ability to interact with the bfd software as well (heck I payed for it right?). a huge plus would be to have drums built into the unit but I doubt that is available (I saw a couple of zooms that had drums but it didn't say "real samples" anywhere so I bet they suck).
6) must have metronome built in
7) must be able to produce a file that could be brought into a studio for vocals or drums/bass. I have no idea regarding file formats but for instance if I wanted real drums, a different singer (for sure on that one) and bass to be done in a studio to a click track that is done with guitar track from the dedicated unit...but has everything else left out to be done in the studo...then I'd Id like it to produce files that could be imported into say protools so the project could be worked on in a "real studio" for all the stuff I may not be able to do professionally.
8) finally must have good sound quality that is in line with current industry standards (whatever those are).
I know there is a lot hear and thanks for reading...I probably with think of some other stuff and hopefully this forum can ask me some other questions I am sure I have forgotten. again thank you very much I have seen products by zoom, tascam and boss just bouncing around but really need some pro advice (spoken in not expert terminology) here.
1) a unit that will be based for the most part on turning knobs as opposed to using a computer type of interface (like my cubase is). since I am an noob to me less may be more as long as it has the basics, and it has to be easy to use and learn
2) the ability to burn a cd directly from the unit. again for ease of use
3) the ability to plug my zoom pedal in and use those effects bypassing the effects in the unit if I want. also the ability to plug a bass directly in to record.
4) the ability to save to my external usb harddrive (or a usb drive or flash drive perhaps???).
5) must be able to interact with the boss dr 880 so I can record with drums and even better would be the ability to interact with the bfd software as well (heck I payed for it right?). a huge plus would be to have drums built into the unit but I doubt that is available (I saw a couple of zooms that had drums but it didn't say "real samples" anywhere so I bet they suck).
6) must have metronome built in
7) must be able to produce a file that could be brought into a studio for vocals or drums/bass. I have no idea regarding file formats but for instance if I wanted real drums, a different singer (for sure on that one) and bass to be done in a studio to a click track that is done with guitar track from the dedicated unit...but has everything else left out to be done in the studo...then I'd Id like it to produce files that could be imported into say protools so the project could be worked on in a "real studio" for all the stuff I may not be able to do professionally.
8) finally must have good sound quality that is in line with current industry standards (whatever those are).
I know there is a lot hear and thanks for reading...I probably with think of some other stuff and hopefully this forum can ask me some other questions I am sure I have forgotten. again thank you very much I have seen products by zoom, tascam and boss just bouncing around but really need some pro advice (spoken in not expert terminology) here.