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Yes Virginia, you can own a 16-Track Field Recorder & Mixer for $399
Published by Matthew Jeppsen February 6th, 2010 in Audio, Hardware, News
A friend of mine just turned me on to the Zoom R16, an 8-input, 16-track recorder and portable mixer. It’s fully loaded with XLR inputs, phantom power, can be USB bus-powered or run on AA batteries, records to standard SDHC cards, and features REAL BUTTONS and sliders.
Price for one of these bad boys? $399. $399! Holy crap. I will own one of these. It really looks like an unbeatable system at this price point. Here’s a review at audiomidi. And for the non-B&H users, here’s an Amazon link at $379.
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Have they finally offered 48khz recording with the R16, or is it still just a 44.1 recorder?
44.1 kHz 16/24-bit WAV when recording to SD Card
96 kHz 24-bit when recording into a computer
Still want one.
-MJ
This has been available for over a year now I think, the 44.1 kHz recording is it’s biggest down fall. I can’t use it for video recordings, I need at least 48kHz.
Yeah, I wasn’t aware of the R16, it’s new to me. :-)
Curious if you’d ever consider recording at 44.1 and converting to 48k in post?
-MJ
I strongly considered buying the R16, at that price it a bargain. Personally I can’t tell the difference between 48kHz 16bit and 96kHz 24bit so I guess 44.1kHz wont make a difference in the “real” world however I’m a sucker for technical specifications and 48kHz is the standard.
48K is what needs to be on video recordings. The only way to drop is if the camera has a function to drop it down to 44.1k. If not in post you will have a huge problem getting the sound to sync. You will have a phasing of synced to out of synced audio with picture. Depending on your DAW, it can re configure and set it in sync once imported, but the problem there is audio tones. They will change.