Tascam Us-1641

[unclemeat67]

Has anyone have any thoughts on this unit?
I think I'm very close to purchasing one.

Thanks

[sk8fever55]

I have it. It's a really good buy. Lots of inputs and outputs. Sounds good too.

[blinkrocker3]

I'm currently using one and it works really well. There's no latency problems, the preamps are good, and the audio quality is great. I like mine a lot

[sonicglue]

i have one for about two weeks running with dell inspion 4 gigs of ram vista 32 bit everthing disabled and it still has a few problems. I'm using the included cubase le 4. so far it doesn't look to promising.I have tweaked the laptop for music but so far it doesn't seem very stable.

[damien]

I have been looking at this unit for a while now. I keep reading reviews with people having latency problems when recording overdubs. It;s a big turn off for me since I do a lot of overdubbing. Does anyone with experience have anything to say about that?

[sonicglue]

I figured it out. It was the old drivers and my small brain. I was monitoring from the wrong outputs.I can't be 100% sure which worked right because it's not home right now. And also using reaper really helped me sort out the routing. (reaper rocks!).

[damien]

Cool of you to reply. I used reaper for a little while, but had trouble with tunexpectedly closing when routing audio through vsti's. Hard to believe it's open source free... when it works

[sonicglue]

I've heard people mention that you can't mix on headphones but I don't understand what they mean. They say the jack is just for live monitoring.Don't get it.I put mine all the way towards computer mix on the front panel dial and i can pan and eq(but i usually do that on monitors)If i wanna overdub i think an external mixer is the way to go.If i could only figure out Cubase.

[BudmanRocks]

I have and it works great. Only thing you can't have nVidia chips powering your UsB ports. It will not work right. I had to buy a Belkin PCI USB 2.0 card. That straightened everything out. I really like it. Good deal for the dollar.I wired all the line ins to my direct outs on my mixer and that gave 14 xlr in's.

[BudmanRocks]

Originally Posted by damien

I have been looking at this unit for a while now. I keep reading reviews with people having latency problems when recording overdubs. It;s a big turn off for me since I do a lot of overdubbing. Does anyone with experience have anything to say about that?

Yes i had that problem too. I upped the buffers and it works great. Thats if you wan t to use the line outs to monitor everything. There's no latency problem if you use the monitor outs.

Make sure you use the ASIO drivers !!!! VERY IMPORTANT