Well to answer myself some...haven't tried the zoom with the band as of yet, but man, it's a FREAKING great tool. If I had had something like this way way back...
I'm totally blown away how quick&simple it is to create demos with this for instance.
I just spent literally 15 minutes and came up with a VERY nice sounding demo with a tremolo electric, acoustic and a bass plus a lead distorted guitar AND stereo vocals...with nothing but the R16 and an electric plugged in. Simply amazing.
Took me about 10 minutes first to figure out how the menus etc. work, but then it's simply put rec on to ch.1 and drop a modeler on it - you can either record the modeler or just listen to it and still record dry - and play. Select 2 channel, drop in a suitable modeler, do the same. Then finally turn on the internal stereo mic and sing over it.
And the sounds aren't bad at all. Normal Zoom sounds - similar to POD etc, quite useable.
And then, you can just drop in master FX, EQ, which include some really nice models too, and suddenly you have a demo the quality one could only dream about in the cassette era. And on top of it all, then you can just plug it to DAW and directly line up the tracks in Cubase and mix, add, whatever.
Plus it has metronome, tuner...don't even know all yet.
STRONGLY recommend it for anybody who wants to record ideas, make quick demos and whatnot. And then it will also work as an 8-in soundcard! What a package! And work with mere batteries! The only thing it doesn't have is a drum machine...very nice device indeed!
Dee
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