I agree Scott. The 16.4.2 would only be necessary if they actually needed 16 channels at once, which is not likely. Stratocasters band appears to be where so many have been with a loud band in a bad room using the limited equipment they have on hand. Ouch!

I like Zoom products too. The pre-amps on the R-16 are plenty quiet enough for most general home recording enthusiasts with the greatest limitations being you have to watch input levels closely for clipping and the faders are quite coarse for mixing. If I recall correctly, the R-16 was also limited to 44.1K 16/24 bit whereas the R8 and R24 both could record at 48k.

Stratocaster could eliminate all of the recording issues by creating his song with BIAB, including vocals and backing vocals then have the band members record and replace the BIAB track with their instruments one at a time. They could include BIAB instruments they don't play and would have a professional sounding demo with no noise or bleed.

Last edited by c_fogle; 06/24/14 07:14 AM.
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