i bought my vs-840 ex for £42 i love it bought some zip disc, im just crap with tech, trying to add drums from a zoom mrt-3, then vocals, still learning, but what a great peice of kit. win win in my book.
Wow, Zip Disks were the cutting edge technology of 1998! @:*) I have a VS-840, still use it all the time, now mixing down to my "new" (old) Philips CDR 795. I don't find it as simple and easy as this guy says, glad I have the manual...
Hi, Well at this point I just record and mix all the parts onto the zip disks; save the mix then mix down to the Philips to make CDs. I assume you want to record stereo. Just connect your master out to your digital ins and tell the mix-down deck where to put your mix. The philips CDR 795 has two CD ports so you can copy one CD onto another, so I create a master then copy it. The only problem is figuring out how the VS-840 works -- there are lots of times that I have to go back to that manual!!!
I have a lot of their instructional vids, but I only upload the demos because the demos are by the maker whereas the instructional vids are put out by one company that does it for many makers and is still at it, sells them, so they're much more likely to get copyright strikes. Plus I was more into the demos that pure instruction anyway.
I ordered a Roland DB-1 Studio Doorbell from GC, and now everybody rings the darn thing in the middle of every recording session. Plus, it sounds harsh and thin and lacks the warmth and punch of Roland's vintage analog vacuum tube doorbell. Grrr!
"Hey man, with the Roland VS-840, I can take my zip file over to your house and we can work on it together. Look out man, my Mercy Blue mix is gonna be better than yours!"
I use to record on my friends in his studio and it was amazing at the time, was the pc that couldn't cope with latency back then.. I recently found on in the side walk, took it home and exactamundo! It works... Although I have not a clue how to use it.. Anyone know any commercial airline pilots? Still old style gizmo bling.. 🤘
@blue9z - I have to disagree just a little bit. Once you learn this thing it is VERY simple to use, expecially compared to some of todays boards... I sometimes pass up my newer equipment and use this old thing just because I always get such a good sound. The only draw back of this thing is the damn zip drive. If this thing had a hard drive I would use it much more.
I've had one since 1998. The zip disk was a cost problem for me back then; they were £10 each. Technological progress & Ebay came to my rescue over recent years; I now have bucketloads of disks that cost me pence. Using one disk for each song is the only way - recording quality set at best and away I go. Ease of use - it IS easy if you are prepared to put a bit of time into studying the manual and putting in some practice. Results - excellent. Endorsements - I get work from a pro musician!
I used to make some pretty solid recordings with this. Can't believe it cost me like $1,500 (in the year 2000). I have a smaller tascam now that does the same stuff that I got for $300. Times have changed. Haha.
@jafafah0ts So do they have the technology now to rectify that? If so, I reckon they should relaunch it. Although I spose having said that, everyone uses flash drives, hard drives and ipods now. and I guess CD's are gradually being faded out now.
Ooooh all the changing colors. Just like the 60's...or so I'm told. Hey, where can I get that lighting effect for stage use? 8mm handicam? Anyway all seriousness aside a pretty cool machine for the time but I always had a difficult time with the small screens and the endless menus.
According to a mate of mine who used to be a sound engineer for Pink Floyd years ago. It was all down to bad timing / marketing on Sony's behalf. Who were the original creators of the minidisc. I still have a minidisc player in my studio and a portable minidisc recorder. I was going to fit a minidisc player in my car but it already has a big fascia'd cd player which actually sounds really good !
WOAH.. YEAH DUDE, COOL BABY.. YEEHA !! They don't make em like that any more.. Gorgonzola cheesy !! It's fascinating to see how audio kit has progressed over the years, some have been overtaken, others become classic effects that everyone wants.. like the space echo etc. The one thing I can't understand is why the CD won popularity over the minidisc. The minidisc is far better. They're all rewritable, they're protected inside a case and smaller. CD's as we know, scratch worse than vinyl !!
I used to have an 880. Man, that thing was horrible. I don't think I've ever used a machine with a less intuitive interface. You needed the manual to do virtually anything with it. I replaced it with a korg d16xd and never needed the manual once.
3.000 pesos? Me parece que son unos 175 euros! en ebay las he visto por unos 60 euros, pero sin disco duro. Diria que es un aparato muy completo pero para mi, dificil de manejar!
J Fields yes, Amazon had VS models but not the one I had, then I checked eBay & a vendor called Heybro had like 3 new in box. Shipped from Korea. I’ve been in heaven since it arrived. I’m an underground country rapper and this is what I record my tracks on.
Believe me...this thing ain't that easy to use. Routing apart from "Easy Routing" is horrible (everything is based on a very complex BUS-system). If you want a recording tool for plug-and-play purposes don't go for this one. The same applies to the 880 and the 890. Great internal effects...but that's it.
BECAUSE OF DUMB PEOPLE...THE SMART PHONES COST NEARLY 1000$....! THANKS FOR OPPORTUNITY WHEN YOU CAN GET ONE AT LESS THAN 40$ IT S AWESOME...!!! IT S GREAT MACHINE IF YOU KNOW HOW TO USE IT... COMPACT , GOOD FX AND IT S MADE FOR HUMBLE MUSICIANS. I HAVE THIS ONE , COLLECTION OF MINI DISC PLAYER TOO IT S GREAT INVENTIONS..BIG THANKS TO JAPAN CHALLENGE.
