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davesisk
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Hey guys:
I'm seriously considering the VF-160EX...seems like that's a lot of meat for the price. Probably the biggest competitor I'm also considering is the Zoom MRS-1608 (roughly the same price, similar recording capabilities, but different bells and whistles).
I'm looking to do recording at home pretty much (although I like the portability of possible taking it somewhere to record something live). I'm a bassist and drummer, have Yamaha electronic drums, good bass preamp, will grab a friend to do guitar parts, probably instrumentals.
My time is short, so I'm looking for something that works in a very intuitive manner, similar to the Yamaha MD8 that I have now. I plan to sell the Yamaha and a Roland VS-840EX that I also have. (I just found the Roland to be a pain to use...it's been sitting there idle for a couple of years.) The yamaha is really easy to use, and works pretty much like a analog deck and board.
These will both produce workable quality recordings, but I want something that will 1) sound better than either, 2) is easier to work with (from recording tracks to mixdown to burning the finished CD) than the Roland (always hated the user interface) and the Yamaha (requires outboard effects, seperate stereo mixdown device, etc). I used to own a Fostex analog 8-track reel to reel, and I was very happy with it's quality, so that plus the ridiculously low pricing kind of steers me toward the VF-160EX. However, the Zoom also caught my eye. Although I'm open to backing this up on the computer, I'd like to be able to produce a completely finished CD on the multi-track itself. That said, I might import the music into 2-track CoolEdit on the PC and do some things to it, so I'd like that capability as well, but I primarily will be mixing and mastering on the multi-track.
Any advice?
TIA,
Dave
I'm seriously considering the VF-160EX...seems like that's a lot of meat for the price. Probably the biggest competitor I'm also considering is the Zoom MRS-1608 (roughly the same price, similar recording capabilities, but different bells and whistles).
I'm looking to do recording at home pretty much (although I like the portability of possible taking it somewhere to record something live). I'm a bassist and drummer, have Yamaha electronic drums, good bass preamp, will grab a friend to do guitar parts, probably instrumentals.
My time is short, so I'm looking for something that works in a very intuitive manner, similar to the Yamaha MD8 that I have now. I plan to sell the Yamaha and a Roland VS-840EX that I also have. (I just found the Roland to be a pain to use...it's been sitting there idle for a couple of years.) The yamaha is really easy to use, and works pretty much like a analog deck and board.
These will both produce workable quality recordings, but I want something that will 1) sound better than either, 2) is easier to work with (from recording tracks to mixdown to burning the finished CD) than the Roland (always hated the user interface) and the Yamaha (requires outboard effects, seperate stereo mixdown device, etc). I used to own a Fostex analog 8-track reel to reel, and I was very happy with it's quality, so that plus the ridiculously low pricing kind of steers me toward the VF-160EX. However, the Zoom also caught my eye. Although I'm open to backing this up on the computer, I'd like to be able to produce a completely finished CD on the multi-track itself. That said, I might import the music into 2-track CoolEdit on the PC and do some things to it, so I'd like that capability as well, but I primarily will be mixing and mastering on the multi-track.
Any advice?
TIA,
Dave