Hi Don,

It looks like a nice machine for what it is. Personally, I have a Boss/Roland BR-1600. It costs more but has better features.

16 Tracks can be played at once - Virtual tracks ( up to 128 tracks total.

8 XLR inputs. you can record 8 mics at once onto 8 different tracks.

80 gigabyte hard drive. - you don't want to mess around with little memory cards with digital audio

Incredible built in FX

Mastering suite, mixing, vocal fx including pitch correction and harmonizer.

USB connectivity to computer

also cd writer, and fairly easy to learn and use, very user friendly


You also need at least 1 good condenser mike, and a pair of near-field monitors



I still love the machine. I've been writing backing tracks from biab in computer to a rewritable cd and importing them into the BR1600


At the moment I'm going more in the direction of using Reaper with a Behringer BCF2000 hooked up to my computer. It depends what he wants to do. The portastudios can be a lot of fun, and you can get good quality results with them.

Good luck, Andrew


Andrew Lloyd