

On the small screen and Reaper excels at these things. It is capable of these things but they are tedious to do I don't use the R24 for individual track editing or mastering to a stereo track. Silver Dew On The Bluegrass Tonight - Hear It! Here's some newer material with 3 part fiddle and ledal steel with more advanced compression, volume envelopes and L/R panning Here's the first complete song recorded on my R24 and mastered in Reaper This makes it easy to kill the monitorsĪnd just have sound through the headphones when you are recording new tracks. There are separate line out (feeds my monitor speakers) and headphone level controls on the back. You can even add reverb and delay to just the monitoring channel so it will not be recorded on the 24 tracks or the master Reverb and delay is available to all input and track channels as a send effect Punch in and punch out, has 100 markers and tons of effects. It also can display the audio waveform, does automatic These files can be alternate takes or they can be primary tracks. Tracks than that and just save them as files. Note that the R24 can play back 24 tracks at one time but you can record a lot more And I can do as many tracks as I want in 24 bits. It does record what you hear however with no further EQ adjustments

The R24 is not motorized and does not have the slick useability of the AW-2400. It looks huge on the web site but it is actually a very tiny box with a small footprint. Same low noise whether using the dynamic mic input on the back or the high Z input on the front panel. The VTB-1 actually does what all the reviewers and shills on Musician's Friend says it will do. Now I can let the steel parts trail off and even as they almost die, there is no background This low of a noise level on my Yamaha setups. When used with my Shure SM-57 mic, there is no white noise coming out of the VTB-1 other than that generated by the amp. The tube blend control on the VTB-1 adds a very audible tube warmth (nothing asĭramatic as a real high voltage tube amp feeding real speakers) at lower settings and a mild distortion at the highest settings. Steel King and it is NOISELESS!!! when set on unity gain. I have run the VTB-1 between my steel guitar and my Fender The AW-1600 had very accurateĪnd evenly EQ'd preamps but both units were heavily laden with white noise. With the Zoom R24 I am eliminating the bulky AW-2400, it's hard drive and the noisy scooped midrange preamps.

Reviews on these great products so there's no need for me to cover the basics here. You can read about my recording process below and there are many great web sites to read about The Yamaha AW-2400 is gone and has been replaced with a Zoom R24 recorder, a Studio Project VTB-1 preamp andĪ really powerful DAW called Reaper.
