mandolirius
Mar-17-2009, 12:44am
I bought one of these about 10 days ago and I am loving it! It's layed out like a cassette deck, which makes it very user-friendly for us pre-digital types. It's got everything I could want. You can record on a CD or an SD card. There are editing features, a speed adjustment that maintains pitch (you can slow down or speed up), a very sensitive and accurate tuner that also puts out very full, rounded tones, so the whole band can tune up together. It will even alter the key of a song, so you can listen back to something in a different key than it was recorded.
You can record with the built-in stereo mics, and they're pretty good but you can also plug external mics in (dynamic only). The built-in speakers are very good too, but you can add external speakers for an even better sound. It will accept input from electronic instruments, tape decks or cd players and turntables.
It was expensive. I managed to get it for just over six hundred, which was an old price. The guy who sold it to me said they've gone up a bit. But it's worth it. It's great for band practices, lessons, learning new material and (eventually) I'll get some of those old cassettes and vinyl turned into CDs. You can even bounce a track and record in two-track stereo but I haven't got that far in the manual yet.
It's all the portable recorder I need. You can burn a cd of the rehersal very quickly and everyone in the band can leave with a copy of what you just did. You can download it into a compter as wave or mp3 files, too. Anyway, just thought I'd post about this great piece of gear, in case anyone else is considering one.
You can record with the built-in stereo mics, and they're pretty good but you can also plug external mics in (dynamic only). The built-in speakers are very good too, but you can add external speakers for an even better sound. It will accept input from electronic instruments, tape decks or cd players and turntables.
It was expensive. I managed to get it for just over six hundred, which was an old price. The guy who sold it to me said they've gone up a bit. But it's worth it. It's great for band practices, lessons, learning new material and (eventually) I'll get some of those old cassettes and vinyl turned into CDs. You can even bounce a track and record in two-track stereo but I haven't got that far in the manual yet.
It's all the portable recorder I need. You can burn a cd of the rehersal very quickly and everyone in the band can leave with a copy of what you just did. You can download it into a compter as wave or mp3 files, too. Anyway, just thought I'd post about this great piece of gear, in case anyone else is considering one.