Yamaha AW1600 Reviews

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Yamaha AW1600 Description
The Yamaha AW1600 Audio Workstation combines an astounding number of professional features with the fidelity you expect from Yamaha. It's the ultimate small-format recording solution. It has everything you need to record, mix, and master your songs to CD in one portable and rugged package. You can record from all 8 combo jacks at once, with 24-bit conversion, phantom power, 4-band EQ, and compression available for each track. Then you can add up to 8 virtual tracks per channel, choose 16 tracks for final mix from the various takes, pitch fix, master, and burn to CD. Or simply move the WAV files from the 40GB hard drive over to your computer for editing and mastering via the USB 2.0 output. All of this, and outstanding Yamaha quality, too.

[Audio~Geek]

This is my biggest gear purchase regret.
I bought one because I thought it would be perfect for recording live gigs and bands in their own environment.
I used it a total of 5 times, and for neither of the 2 situations above.

I was already so used to recording, editing and mixing in Pro Tools that this was a major productivity killer for me.

I could go on and on about why I hate this thing. I need to sell it ASAP!

[garageband]

Says more about you than the piece itself.

[Audio~Geek]

LOL, I'll pretend that wasn't a personal attack.

The preamps are pretty noisy, I did like that all the effects were easily accessible on input or monitoring path. Some things were really easy to do on it, MOST things were not.
Naming your tracks took forever, finding the solo button was a couple pages deep in the menus, going to specific points on the timeline took forever with the jog wheel. If they made it so when you spin faster the numbers go up faster that, slower for higher resolution would be great.

I don't feel the quality/performance/ease of use vs cost was good enough.

[C. Hanson]

I bought one eight months ago, and have used its predecessor, the AW16G, quite a bit, so let this fall as it may:
You're right about the solo function.
Naming songs--easily done, after a bit of practice. Preamps?--haven't noticed any extraneous noise. That's interesting to hear, and I'll take notice next time.

[rayrock@rayrockmusic.com]

Had one for almost two years now. I mix and match it with Sonar. Works great for what I need it for. You can't stay in front of a computer screen all the time. You got put your hands on a few knobs.

[pauljo7878]

Yes, I have had an AW1600 for a couple of years and used it for everything from multitracking to live band recording. I too transfer the files to PC and even there I use it as a controller for the mixer in Sonar and Samplitude.

The built in effects are excellent but considering Yamaha have high end sound processors/mixers in some of the best and most well known studios in the world it's should'nt be surprising.

great forum,
regards
Paul