For you axe-slingers who (like me) blame your inability to write a new song on the inability to afford a simple, portable recording device, your excuse is officially lame. TASCAM’s ingenious GT-R1 affords musicians the ability to simply plug their guitar and / or bass directly in and record using the built-in amp simulator and effects. Better still, the stereo condenser microphones up top allow users to record ambient noise, vocals, off the cuff jam sessions or anything else for that matter. The unit captures in MP3 or WAV format (16- or 24-bit), includes an SD card slot (1GB bundled in) and a USB 2.0 port for offloading files and charging the battery. Newbies can even queue up an MP3 and jam along, and the integrated metronome / chromatic tuner are just icing on an already über-sweet cake. Word on the street has a price of around €200 ($308), which actually sounds like quite the bargain from here.
The moment they release a 4 track version, I’m in..
Not sure what all the hype is about, the thing does not do what it says.
Sure, it has effects and all manner of fancy things but can you get them onto your computer? No. Moreover, I can’t get anything off my computer into the machine – anything it recognises that is. The stuff is on the card but the GT-R1 won’t recognise it.
Bitterly disappointed with this gadget – I was looking forward to using it. Now it find it’s just a very pricey and very lame, lumpy and hard to handle bog standard recorder with a propensity to go wrong every five minutes.