Korg D-1600

I am an acoustic Singer Songwriter.. Performing Mississippi Delta Blues and Finger style guitar folk songs. The Korg D1600 is a very good box. The touch screen enables you to fly around very quickly. It offers a great selection of features all of which are easy to use. Like anything else, you have to learn how the machine thinks. It is much more intuitive then other manufacturer's comprable machines.

The Korg D 1600 sounds like a live show. I am a solo act and record as I perform live. It is easy to use, very flexible and has a superior sonics. I did study the Yamaha workstaions with the autp faders and am very glad I chose the Korg D 1600. It records 16 and 24 bit using no compression. Sounds great!

To new to determine. Thus far, very much so.

To new

Tour performing at festivals and acoustic blues and singer songwriter venues. Been playing for over 35 years.
I highly recommend the KORG D 1600 speaking as a solo musician. If you really need fader automation, have a look at the Yamaha. I think Korg has better sonics and is much easier to use. It thinks like a musician, not like a recording engineer. In addition to various acoustic guitars, I also have a pair of Rode NT 3's and an AT 3035.

Very easy to get good sound, not easy for me to be creative with it. I don't know about competitors units, but this thing does have a learning curve to it that I'm still in.

Dont get me wrong, this thing is EONS ahead of Cubase/Gina type Computer based systems in terms of ease of use.

16 bit is good enough for me. The effects issue addressed in the previous review is true. There is no effects loop, so you have to learn how to use the built in ones, or do a silly bouncing trick where you output just the track you want thru the mains, run it through outboard gear, then back into a different channel. Ok, until you run out of tracks.

My first cd burning episode left me with lower levels than I expected on the cd. You also have to bounce everything to tracks 1&2 prior to burning. You can't mix on the fly into the burner.

Pretty amazing for home use. Takes some time to learn. I think you can get PRO quality out of it if you don't mind spending the time to tweak, and can do your project on 16 tracks.

Pretty good for demo recording. The way it's all set up, your hands are tied when it comes to really getting good effects. Only 8 insert effects can be used when there are 16 tracks in all! Aux effects are used with one effect on your external unit allowing you to dial that one effect into each channel.
No assigning different effects to seperate channels.
Not that great for recording rock music. You have to find ways around it's initial setup and thats not easy!!!!!
OK effects if you want to spend an eternity creating scenes.
Ok for home use--not for small studio!!!