Hello,

I'm going to buy a Zoom R-16 recorder/soundcard/control surface.

I'll be using it mainly to record 8 tracks at a time to SD card, which it should be very handy at, even works with batteries so I can record even at a cottage etc...and then bring the SD card to Cubase where it'l just import and align perfectly for more recording and tweaking on the DAW.

So I'd mostly be recording real drums and tube amps at the facility, and then add some stuff in my home studio, like vocals later, and probably re-play some if not all guitars with modeler plugins and probably also replace or double some drums by triggering off drum samples.

Anybody used an R-16? I've mostly heard only good things about it for my purpose, but I worry about one thing: does the gain on mic channels go low enough for loud bands, i.e. can the mic inputs take STRONG signals without breaking up???