I will try to give you more info based on that. how many people you will be recording, and how mobile you will be ? is when I have guitarist, a bassist, and a drummer who all need headphones.Ĭan you give me an over-view of all the different kinds of projects you will be working on. The only time the headphone thing has been an issue. it seems kind of STUPID for the 'PRO' model to come equiped with 1 jack, and the 'HOME' DAW equiped with 2. The headphone jack issue is easily solved by buying a headphone amp. Now, he says the sound quality is better, but are all of the other features worth getting the BR-1600 over VS-2000CD? The sound quality is better on the Roland, but overall I wish I had kept the Boss, much easier to use with very good sound quality. The Boss BR1600cd unit that I sold for this Roland 'upgrade' had all those things. I am disappointed that this unit doesn't have a built in tuner, doesn't have reverb or chorus readily available for all tracks, doesn't have a pair of head phone jacks, doesn't have programmable drum or bass tracks for metering capabilities, and doesn't have effects that can easliy be used on every track with a different effect on each track. This is not a user friendly machine and will take months of using it to even break the surface of what it takes to record a song using all the componets of this machine.

Only thing is you need an engineering degree to use it. The sound quality of this unit is fantastic. Infact, one review, I guy said he wish he hadn't sold his BR 1600 for the VS-2000.Įdit: Actually, I see he bought the VS-2400(selling his BR-1600). One has 20 tracks and one has 16, but I've been reading some great reviews on the Boss 1600. Which one is better? They are both priced at around the same.

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