| don from Houghton Lake, MI |
| dlstaff2001@yahoo.com |
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| Subject: | Very nice recorder with a couple of major issues |
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| well made machine - looks and feels professional with the exception of the sliders (which are only "automated" on the display) |
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| Best feature has to be the sound - headphone jack should be in front of the machine (cable gets in the way). Session drums is pretty much worthless... KORG should drop them or at least add a bass section. |
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| Very complicated unless you are one who has training in a studio... a dvd tutorial would be very helpful. |
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| Sound is great but it is very difficult to get the effects figured out... |
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| This is where KORG has issues... channel 2 constantly bled over to channel 1 - very, very frustrating. KORG was no help at all - but AMS MADE IT RIGHT - CAN'T SAY ENOUGH GOOD THINGS ABOUT AMS's CUSTOMER SERVICE... AMS TRULY DELIVERS!!!!! |
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| Overall this is a very nice piece of gear, however, the write-up makes it appear that the sliders are motorized ("Automated") - the main reason I chose this model. Even though they are not "motorized" I would have loved to have kept this machine but I couldn't deal with the channel bleed issue. Returned it for a TASCAM 2488NEO - so far that is a great machine. |
| Do you own this product?:
| exchanged it for a TASCAM 2488neo |
| Date submitted:
| March 15, 2009 |
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| Mike from Newark, NJ. |
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| Subject: | An enigma of a recorder... |
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| Other than the MIDI sync issues, the unit itself seems well made. The tilting display needs to be larger and easier to read though. And what's with that silly point and click interface? It's terrible to work with. |
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| A nice collection of features. No issues here. |
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| The basic recording functions are pretty easy to grasp, but session drums is a half-baked addition that feels tacked on at the last minute. I highly recommend avoiding the headache of using them. |
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| The sound quality is top-notch. This is one area where the D3200 truly impressed me. |
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| This is where the D3200 falls on its face. I had MAJOR sync issues with the MIDI on this machine. No matter what I hooked up to it, the D3200 as a master clock is very sloppy at best. The tracks never lined up right. I know it's the Korg that's the cause, as when the Korg is the slave, the MIDI clock is fine. If you do a lot of MIDI syncing, I'd seriously look elsewhere. I called Korg about this and of course they'd never heard of the problem before, so they had no recommendations for me. Lovely. |
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| The D3200 is a decent machine, perhaps a bit overpriced for the money, but a solid recorder for those who abhor computer-based recording (like me). |
| Do you own this product?:
| I did, but traded it for a Yamaha AW1600 |
| Date submitted:
| 8/31/09 |
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| PB from Oklahoma |
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| Subject: | Looks good but keep looking |
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| Quality is lacking but I guess when it comes to recorders unless you spend literally thousands on one, its just not gonna work very well |
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| the ease of use is the best feature. |
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| Its fairly simple to plug in and start recording. the drum section is incredibly complicated however. I would suggest leaving them off entirely |
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| It had problems out of the box. |
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| decent prodcut however Korg will NOT back up their warranty! I have a big problem with bleed over on the channels. Everytime i have called KORG they give me the runaround! I'm sorry but I do NOT recommend ever doing business with a company that will not back up their work. |
| Do you own this product?:
| yes |
| Date submitted:
| 07-07-09 |
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| jon from texas |
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| Subject: | great |
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| well made deff not cheap |
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| you can pretty much do anything |
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| Easy..... if you have never ever used a multi track recorder it might take some time but this is my third and its easy |
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| sound is fantastic |
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| well only had it for a month nothing wrong yet |
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| my only complaint is i want the armed track to play back so i can punch in and re-record parts i just cant figure it out but im sure if i put in a little more time on the machine ill get it.... other than that i think its awesome |
| Do you own this product?:
| yea |
| Date submitted:
| 2/19/2009 |
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| Todd Kreigh from Skiatook, OK USA |
| toddkreigh@juno.com |
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| Subject: | not bad but could be improved |
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| The unit appears to be well made. I haven't found anything that does not work, although others who own it wrote they had trouble with the trim pots. |
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| The best feature of this product are 32 tracks for a low price, and a simple way to create a master track for CD burning. It needs motorized faders, a less convoluted way to sync up to external MIDI devices, a VGA interface, and dedicated effects for each channel. |
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| The biggest complaints I have are with the (very) limited effects processing, i.e., it's limited and it's convoluted to get the effects set up. Syncing to external MIDI is obtuse, because you have to involve the Sessions Drums to set a tempo. The learning curve is significantly steeper than my Fostex VF160EX, where doing the above is much simpler. The manual is adequate, but nothing great. The D3200 is not a difficult machine to learn to use, but it's not a piece of cake (like the Fostex) either. |
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| The sound is excellent. Lots of depth, very clean and bright sounding. |
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| I've owned it two months, so I don't really know what's going to happen after I put another 200-300 hours on it. |
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| The Korg D3200 is a nice effort from Korg, but I feel they've left out to many needed features on this machine. The need to leave crap like "Session Drums" out of it and put motorized faders and a VGA interface in. They also need to beef up the effects options. Yes, it will add to the price but at $1,800 - $2,100 they could add enough good features to compete with the Tascam and Yamaha machines in the same class. That, or create another model class, like a "D3200 Pro". Otherwise, the feature set offered is not worth paying another $400 for. If you don't need 32 tracks, look at something like a Fostex VF160EX. |
| Do you own this product?:
| I own it |
| Date submitted:
| 12/05/2008 |