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I need help please. I own a zoom1266cd and cannot understand it's operation.
When iI turn the machine on, the display reads...ver up?
ent with an arrow
pointing left and right prior to the ent.
I cannot get off of this display. I have tried pressing all the buttons with no
luck. no buttons are illuminated. When I turn the machine off, the cd tray
opens. The only thing I can get on the display is Recover/yes no? I have
never been able to use this unit, and I am very frustrated over paying $1000.00
for it one year ago. Can you help me?
 
I own a Zoom MRS-8 and love it! I also owned a MRS-802b-CD and loved it but wanted a smaller machine. :)

It is by no means bottum of the barrel, and anyone who says that never had or tryed one and shouldnt talk smack before trying. :mad:

I would recomend any day.
I like the Zooms over Korg, Roland, boss and Yamaha All of which I have owned one of as well as a Protool LE system, Digital performer and Sonar.

Later

-Balze
 
i'm thinking about getting a zoom...was is the usb card everyone is talking about....does it allow you to write to your computer via usb instead of writing to a card, removing the card and then transfering the info stored on the card to your computer via a card reader. Would love to be able to use the zoom MRS-8 connected to my apple powerbook and not have to deal with the memory card.

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another thought...was talking to my local music shop owner and he felt that there would be a number of usb digital recorders coming out soon. Has anyone heard anything from NAMM about any new digital recorders with usb or firewire interfaces?

The only thing turning me off to the mrs-8 is have to use cards for recording.

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Zoom forum

Finally. A Zoom forum to talk to other users. Please keep it going. I bought an MRS 1044CD 3 years ago and I love it. No problems, no limits, at least for the stuff I do. I've done 3 CD's, instrumentals of other peoples music, and have had good comments from listeners about the good quality from a little bedroom studio. I am an "aging" part time musician, and still trying to learn midi. I'm not quite sure how to use the midi in the 1044. I have a Yamaha P60 midi piano, a Yamaha Motif-Rack ES sound module, a Proteus 2000, E-Mu sound module, and the 1044. I guess I'm a little dumb as to the possibilities of this stuff when routed the right way to the Zoom. Any suggestions in this area will be hugely appreciated. Thanks for this site, all you Zoom users.

Sea Sharp
 
Zoom MRS 1266

Hi, I'm looking to talk to someone who is using a Zoom MRS 1266. I seem to have he main gist of the thing but I can't seem to get individual effects on individual tracks. For example, if I use an effect on vocals on a track, when I record on another track the effect on the vocal dissappears! Does anyone know how to use the effecs on this damn thing properly.
 
I have had my Zoom HD!CD for 1 week and loving it. Currently am struggling with the drum machine. Some of my work changes time back and forth within the piece. Does anyone know of a drum tutorial for the Zoom?
 
I have an h4n it rules. The onboard mics are clean. The 3 modes are kickass and darn usefull. I can record some great drum tracks in 4 track mode. And get some great samples and field recording on 2 track. Zoom rules.
 
zoom zoom zoom

I had the 1044, upgraded to a 1266, and now have the 1608. I love it. The most bang for your buck. To whoever has problems with the drum machine sounding toyish, they must be talking about the built in kits. I agree. These sound like toys (except for the kit called "Tight" - that one's pretty damn realistic - what a nice cracky kick and snare!). Anyway, with the 1608 you get a sampler, which means if you find a better drum sound - sample it into the 1608's drum machine! I did this and I have a VERY un-toyish sounding drum set.

Also, you HAVE to absorb the manual. For starters (I don't know why on earth everyone wants a tutorial!) it starts with, of all things, A TUTORIAL!!! LOL Then every other chapter is a reference on every other feature that you can look up as you need it.

Having used these things for a few years, I know the units inside and out and it bugs me to hear people ask "how do you do this" or "how do you do that". Come on, guys, RTFM!!! It's ALL in there. Yes, I know. It's a long manual. But so is EVERY DAW manual. And when it comes down to it, it's long, but not difficult AT ALL. It's very well written and nothing is confusing.

Well, enough ranting and raving for now! I wish there was a decent forum here for zoomers, but the other forums are very low in activity, and most of the activity is questions like "how I do this basic function".

I wish there was a forum for experienced zoomers to learn some undocumented little tricks.

To any other zoomers out there, what a great all-in-one, eh? :-)
 
Zoomer

I'm still a newbie to home recording but a few years ago I took the plunge and purchaced my first DAW a Yamaha MW10USB studio with Cubase LE and IK multimedia's plug-in Suite for my desktop PC. I've tracked some great project results but i'm still learning the system.

I wanted something more apt to my traveling and for use at band rehersals, so I aquired a used MRS-802BCD. This is by far the best bang for my buck as not only did I recieve a great deal on it but it has a host of features and pretty easy to learn off of. Unlike the Roland VS-880 my guitarist had and it took us moths to learn the in's and out's of that unit. We had to purchace a guide book and spend numerous hours trying to harness this DAW.

My expierence with Tascam has always been adverage. The old MKII 4 track tape system was my friend for a few years. It had a well laid out top and decent sounding pre's Which I had to get a mic pre and some additional outboard gear, but nothing like the MRS-802BCD.

I'm still learning all of the power of this unit and so far the only thing difficult with the DAW is programing the drum track via inside the recorder. I do have a MRT3B drum machine and have elisted it instead of trying to figure things out right now.

As far as tracking a live situation with the band...It does do it's job. We have everything mic'd anyways live so we just pipe into the stereo outs of the board and let it rip onto a stereo channel in the 802. We've even rn this way for our rehersals and while the only thing coming out of the PA was the vocals through the monitor channel the band was being piped into the boards main outs.

I have been getting into podcasting and the 802 has come in handy for those on the spot conversations.

I do have one question though, my 802 didn't come with the CD-ROM recovery disc and I was wondering being since the recorders hard disk is a E-IDE 3.5", would it be possible to copy those files to a CD-RW and then up-grade the hard disk to a larger IDE drive to say instead of the 40GB to 80 or 100GB?

I haven't read anything in the manual or on-line about such a swap or even if the data stored in the partitions of the hard disk can be extracted. So can anyone lend some help on this?
 
Another ancient thread that will not die! I can't comment on the larger Zoom SIAB's, but I've done a fair amount of research on their handheld recorders. Zoom is owned by Samson, which does produce some seriously bottom feeder gear. There is evidence, though, that Zoom in particular, is responding to end user feedback. The H4 handheld recorder was revolutionary in its features for price. A four track recorder with built in mics that can record at 24bit/96kHz to SD cards, *and* can function as a USB powered interface, with XLR/1/4" inputs with phantom power, effects, provided with Cubase software, all for $200! That's the good news.

The bad news- the machine placed the limiter in the signal chain after the mic preamps, so if the pres were clipped by a loud source, the limiter produced quieter clipping! The machine was fragile, the buttons sucked, and usually died within a few months, resulting in dropped data and freezing. In short, it was a disaster that tried to do too much for too little.

The redesigned H4n appears to have corrected all of those problems. It is a robust unit, housed in a rubberized case. The buttons are all upgraded, and they put the damned limiter before the pres in the signal chain. In short, it costs $300 instead of $200, but as Chickenguy says, it rocks. I've had mine for months now without a single problem, and it has seen a lot of use.

What's the takeaway from this? Zoom is capable of building gear that totally sucks, and gear that is the best there is in its price range, not unlike Behringer. Before buying any piece of Zoom gear, do the research, and read real reviews by end users before you make a purchase. I was going to buy an H4, but after reading the reviews, I was talked out of that real fast. I bought the H4n based on some very different reviews, and haven't regretted it for a moment. You have to evaluate each unit on its own merits. I'm happy to say that while Zoom has made some mistakes, they also seem to be listening to their customers. That does count for something.-Richie
 
ZOOM Diital Recording

I bought a ZOOM HD8 digital recording box 15 months ago. I've only just started using it to a great extent about 3 months ago. The external build quality seems OK, metal construction etc. and produces reasonable quality sound & lots of features. But the quality of compoments used inside is not good, some of the slider pots & I/P rotary pots now sound noisy like rubbing sandpaper. Some features are a bit complex to uses too and not as per manual and I wasted a lot of time to get them to work (e.g. bouncing a drum track). It is only possible to create one rythm track for each recording project, although the manual indicates 10. I found this out when trying to create a 2nd rythm track track and the first was overwritten , in fact all 10 tracks have the same data no matter which one you edit! - a real pain. Zoom have admitted the rythm track issue. But as for the pot problem I was just refered to a repair shop - the cost of repair would be horendous as zoom will not cover the cost.

In sumary dont be enticed by all those juicy features get a real, reliable recording machine like TASCAM.
 
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