Digital Multitrack Shootout

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Everything from the "pocket studios" to the big boys.What have you worked with?What are you thinking about buying?Which is underrated?Overhyped?

And what improvements could still be made for the future?

Lets hear from YOU!
 
Why? If you want to do market research here why don't you at least come clean and state who you work for.
 
Right On Tex:

Before you do any new boxes, start writing manuals that are organized, succinct, and not directed at engineers.

Can't understand why there is so much hassle to set up tracks. Like, make it simple. Record tracks 1 and 2, add reverb program 3 to track one but don't record it. Push button and go.

Green Hornet :D :D :p :p :p :cool:
 
TexRoadkill said:
Why? If you want to do market research here why don't you at least come clean and state who you work for.
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Yeah, what he said!
 
skyy38 said:
You guys are so off base,it's pathetic...
I'm not a rep...
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Very sorry man. Thanks for the explanation of why you want everyone to pour out their hears and souls.

I use a Radar Nyquist and I love it.
 
In addition:

I use the Foonman 113 which is an 11 track recorder with a 21 track backup which goes to a Inter-lixiviating bicorder.

Green Hornet
 
Alesis HD24
MOTU 2408 mkII
Lucid GenX6
I love it.
 
skyy38 said:
You guys are so off base,it's pathetic...
I'm not a rep...
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So what exactly are you? Come celan.
Many will be happy to help you but this hiding and leading people thing is getting old. Just come out and be done with it. ou so obviously work for a corporation so give it up, what position do you have?
I guess that would make your leading of unsuspecting hobby recordists a bit harder. What you are doing is transparent and wrong. People come here for advice from users and you have not as far as I know ever posted your music but you tell everyone to buy Casio stuff constantly...that is evil wrong.
 
I have a George Foreman grille, and it does everything from kabobs to tenderloins, and it's on this nifty little incline so gravity causes the fat to drain out.

The unfortunate side in all of this is that, in their quest to deliver a leaner, more health-conscious steak, a lot of the meat's natural juices are also sacrificed as they are drained along with the fat.

I think a better idea would be to devise some method by which the fat can run off while the juices are allowed to be retained. It sounds tricky, but I'm convinced it can be done.
 
Screw digital, it's overrated! Analog rules!

;)
 
Okay, I'll give it to'ya, that talented people do good thing with digital,...

although it's the message, not the medium, [IMO].

Well, for my own purposes, and the scope of my 'talent', analog rules. That being said, I'll admit that I too have a couple digital-based units.

My real preferences in digital workstation gear would be:

-Tascam 788 Portastudio, 24-bit/44.1k HD 8-track recorder, 6-simul-record, all-digital mixer

-Fostex FD-8, 16/44.1k HD 8-track recorder, 2-simul-record, 8x2 analog mixer

-Tascam 564 MD-Portastudio, ATRAC-encoded 4-track minidisc recorder, great 12x2 analog mixer, 4-simul-record & convenient removable MD media

-Fostex FD-4, 16/44.1k HD 4-track recorder, 2-simul-record, 4x2 analog mixer

-Yamaha MD-8, ATRAC-encoded 8-track minidisc recorder, 8-simul-record, 8x2 analog mixer, convenient removable MD media

-Fostex MR-8, 16/44.1k CF-memory recorder, 2-simul-record, 2x2 mixer, digital effects, USB, the cheapest new 8-track out there.

-All the rest of them, I could take or leave,... but the units like the Fostex VF-16 and VF-08/VF-80 look like decent units, and the Yamaha AW-16G, also looks nice.

-If you're really into sequencing and midi, there's the Roland CDX-1, 8-track, and the Tascam Pocketstudio 5 for midi+4-tracks.

-If you want the most tracks, & top of the line DAW-standalone workstation, it would be the Roland VS-2480, although there are a lot of units at the 8-10-track level, like the BR-1180, BR-864, BR-8, or even the BR-564, [4-track].

-Zoom makes a whole line of DAW's, too. A friend of mine has a Zoom 1266, and his recordings sound great!

It depends on the scope of your project, and how much you want to spend. Most units you can think of are fairly affordable, considering what you get.

There is a lot of great gear out there, given new gear and mint units on Ebay. Usually Ebay-gear is a better value, with certain exceptions.

If you take it a level further, into discrete digital gear, IMO you can't beat a Tascam MX-2424 with a DM-24 mixer. That's a winning digital combo!

For however much money you want to spend, there's a digital recorder/workstation for you!

[PS: I don't think this guy's a marketing hack!]
;)
 
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