I have an ancient 16 track digital workstation that I’ve had since the dawn of time and am just very familiar and comfortable with. It has most of the same essential features you’d find on modern recorders and a great bussing system and 2 banks of multieffects available per track, the downside being that I have to digitally record out from the digital recorder or rip data/audio with the onboard CD burner.
However, my computer’s cd rom drive took a dump, as did ironically all of the cd players in my house except for my DVD player, so I’m particularly aware of the need for a USB (flash drive/ssd) recording/transfer feature or at minimum an SD memory card which would be essential to me if I were to ever upgrade hardware recorders.
The Tascam may not be an audio interface, but it does appear to be a mass storage device of sorts which you can plug directly into your computer via USB and export files from (although it did say usb 2.0 so it won’t be as fast as 3.0+) and to me that’s just the kind of feature I’d want. Also, as I mentioned, the 8 inputs is a pretty nice bonus.
Otherwise, this is the first time I ever looked at that Zoom L12 and it seems to be a really nice unit. I’d love something like that but I don’t know if I could get my money’s worth out of it these days. Bluebox also seems like a really nice option and the size is appealing but it would have to be priced at about half of the going rate for me to consider it.
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