I'm a musician, I play drums and vocals. I'm setting up my own recording studio in January :).
I'm a musician, I play drums and vocals. I'm setting up my own recording studio in January :).
Member since:15.10.2005
Reviews:9
The most expensive of Tascams portastudio range. The 424 MKIII is a very good purchase for the musician on a budget who needs more than just plug and play features.
The unit contains, 4 unpowered balanced XLR inputs. 4 jack inputs. (you can't use bolth the xlr and jacks at once) and 2 further jack inputs.
So if you were to use XLR - Jack converters. You could run 6 microphones through the unit at once.
The unit does have a tricky operation however. First you must select the input, line/mic - for microphones and jack inputs off - for no input tape - for monitoring whilst recording on another channel to monitor without leakage.
Then there is a 4 band e.q., high, high-mid, mid and low. Very few portastudios have a 4 band e.q.
Next are the effect sends, if you have a compressor of effects unit connected, these dictate how much of the wet (signal with effect) signal comes through.
Then we have the pan strip. This is important to the track recording. If the device is set to stereo (reccomended) then panning to the left sends to track 1 or 3 depending on which is enabled. Panning to the right, caters for 2 and 4.
Finally on the strip is the fader for mixing. The device has a digital display, showing the track input levels and clipping. The transport features are rehearsal, auto punch, clear, counter reset, loc1, loc2 memo in, rpeat and return to zero. Along side a knob for pitch control.
Overally this unit, provided it's used with good mics and good mujsicians with good technique can produce good demo quality results. I'd reccomend pairing it with a Behringer Ub mixer and a Behringer tube preamp for extra inputs.
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