Fostex VF160 or Korg D1200?

[Comet Mutation]

Fostex VF160 or Korg D1200 or Boss BR1180?

Hey all,

I'm looking for the best value period. The one with the most goods built in to make recording ON JUST THE UNIT ALONE possible and still sounding great.
I really dont wish to spend any extra money on freakin' compressors, EQs, Gates, ect. ect. ect. blah blah blah $pend $pend $pend. I just want to throw down and have a unit that throws back.

Help!
-Comet Mutation

P.S. Also how is the Boss BR-1180?

 

[manning1]

save money

if you just want to demo your song cheap. go to ebay and buy an old portastudio for 30 bucks and a vcr used for another 30 bucks that hifi. total cost under 100 bucks. ive known people get good demoes like this. heres the way. bed tracks on the porta 4 tracks.
mix down to vhs hifi. while mixing in another track like a synth. then vhs hi fi onto a blank new tape in porta to two tracks. and here add another track coming back to porta. so at this juncture you have 6 tracks in stereo on two tracks of the porta. now add your lead instruments and vocal on the remaining two porta tracks and mix down final to vhs hi fi master adding another track on the way. giving a total of 9 tracks.
just an idea.

 

[manning1]

and a trick

if you are smart always leave space at the beginning and end of the song of 9 tracks. once youve done the final vcr hifi master
bring the audio into a friends computer and use cool edit 96 noise reduction using the noise print at the end or begfinning of the song. will clean it up really nice.

 

[Comet Mutation]

Well the only thing is, I have a porta studio but it's all screwed up and NO ONE knows whats wrong with it (check tascam section for my user name). Plus I want to do nearly professional quality recordings out of my house and I think we all know that will just never happen with a porta studio.

I was kinda looking for something powerful enough to handle my entire band and something that can maintain a powerful sound all on it's own because I really dont like the computer programs. Even though they are hailed near and far as the greatest thing to happen to recording ever, I just dont like them because they are EXPENSIVE, flimsy, memory hogs, that depend on your computer's soundcard which in my case is a burnt out hunk of crap.

I just want to know which unit, by any company really, you guys would recommend in the $1000 range.

Actually I may be willing to do the computer thing too, if any of you can point me around to the program that gives you the most bang for the buck and a soundcard that can do the same that all together would only come up to around $700 (preferably) to a $1000 (max). Or maybe just tell me which file sharing service I could get one of them off of (ohh boohoo if you dont like that) and which file to look for, that way all I have to get is a soundcard and some nice monitors?