Zoom Mrs1044

[Olin]

I have recently purchased a new Zoom MRS 1044 hard disk recorder. I realize this machine is probably overkill, since all I really want to do is record single voice/instrument worktapes/demos, but the price, portability and future expansion capabilities of this machine won me over pretty quickly.

My question is this. Being an old radio guy, and a working singer/songwriter, I have a reasonably good working knowledge of analog recording. I know squat about digital recording.

At some level, yeah, tracks are tracks, are tracks, but I'm having some difficulty wading through Zoom's documentation, which seems far more geared to mastering, as opposed to just bone-simple worktape/demo projects.

Anybody know of any good after-market books on this particular product?

Also, I'm curious about getting the finished product to my computer for transfer to a CD. I'm using a Soundblaster card, and if all I'm gonna do is input a sound file, without worrying about multi-track capability, it's just fine. I'm wondering if I should just use standard audio cables, plus the adapter to get the stereo signal into the sound card, OR opt for the add-on USB capability on the Zoom?

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

 

[aikiway]

Hi Olin,

You should check out the MRS 1044 user group at Yahoo, here's the link:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MRS-1044/

As far as I know, there isn't any books covering this particular product ...yet. I think because it's still relatively a new product. I hope someone will publish one soon.

I've had this unit for a couple weeks now and I mostly learn by a lot "hands-on" ... The forum is also a good source also.

Good luck & have fun

 

[Olin]

Hadn't thought about Yahoo!Groups. I'll wander over there later.

Know what you mean about hands on... just start punching buttons and see what happens.

Fine way to learn.

And no, I'm not being sarcastic.

I've had mine a couple months and just finally gotten a little serious about learning it, because I need to record a worktape demo for a publisher here.

Thanks for the tip.

Olin