What kind of multi track recorder should i get to practice my guitar playing?

Question

i want a multi track recorder thats fairly cheap, but good enough quality where i can add beats and records chords s i can practice my scales. any suggestions?

Answer 1

The Tascam MP-01 is about as cheap as it gets.  For what you want to do, that model is perfect.

Sometimes you can get them for as low as $60 or $70 on E-bay.

Another way to go is to get recording software like Cakewalk with a small mixer on the front-end of your audio card.  Or get a USB audio port with a 2 or 4 channel mixer.

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Answer 2

The Boss BR-8 is absolutely the best unit for home-practice and demo cd recording. It can be found used on ebay for about $150 to $200. Many times it's sold along with an anvil hard case too. It uses 100mb ZIP disks that can be found for about $2 each. The unit has *fantastic* guitar and vocal effects. The unit has been around for a long time and originally sold for $800 retail. I own about five of these units and if you know what you're doing, you can cascade the units and accomplish 24-track simultaneous mixdown at 44khz CD quality (using a high-end quality soundcard in your PC). The BR-8 can be upgraded to use 250mb ZIP disks. There are also PC utilities for working with the BR-8 data files. With a ZIP drive in your PC, it's easy to back-up your ZIP disks and protect your work.