I thought the sound is pretty good on this product.

I like that I can organize verses, choruses and so on.And plus you can tell the backround istruments what notes to play. The only thing is that it only has limited backround rhythms to each genre of music.

All parts still working fine, had for 2 years. I have never dropped it though. One problem I had was a pattern loading error which apparently ment I lost the pattern and beats from the card. The manual didn't say much about the error. But All I had to do was connect to the pc and copy and paste the missing pattern from the tascam software onto the card.

I really don't know what other recording products have. So I don't know if others have more or less features.

I can't wait to put my music on the computer.

active musician

Prog. Rock, Jazz, Rock

Well I'm not a recording engineer. I've made about 4 or 5 mp3s with it so far and they sound pretty darned good to me.

One of the reasons I came here to write a review is that the presentation of this product is a tragedy. The basic features, being able to record a song very simply and convert to mp3 is fantastic; as a songwriter that's what I'm looking for. It's a lovely little thing for the price. The main wrongheaded feature is the Tone Generator -- seven million backup band songs that are just absurd. All I want is a backup drum track, and I'm still trying to figure that out -- you have to delete all the other instruments and then do copy/pastes, is my suspicion. So that's today's project, God help me.

It's not top quality, but you get what you pay for. I wish they had charged me a bit more and included a more powerful flash card.

alternative

Not outstanding. Kinda hard to tell, since after two weeks, I still was having trouble getting it to do the most basic things.

Some people really like the pre-programmed backing tracks to "jam" with. As a songwriter, these were useless to me. The display is tiny and hard to read, the menus are confusing and complicated. There are lots of things you have to remember to do depending on what you're trying to record. (set up this input, switch that button, press the other button, turn the wheel... etc.)

Very cheap feel to this recorder. The sliders feel like they could break off easily. It looks good, but kind of toy-like. I did not test the battery life.

The price is reasonable. I don't know how it compares to other digital recorders.

For help, I went to the Tascam forum for this product. The folks there were helpful and encouraging. Altho they had plenty of good tips, I still found the machine hard to work with and confusing.

I thought it looked good, when seeing it online. Getting it out of the box, it still looked cool, but cheaply made.

semi-popular

lots of noise in the tracks if you don't have drums in it. Also tascam should of use a higher mp3 rate. When you record in mp3 the bit rate must be higher then 128. Also the sound samples could of been better. You have to use a mic preamp or its to easy to distort the sound with the internal preamp.

hobbyist

jazz