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Originally Posted by
loujudson
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You don't want much, do you? Maybe you could design, build, and market your own ideal recorder system! Or get a computer? :-)
Yes, it seems like "a monster", but no more so than the F8 was itself? In fact, I'm proposing a relativity "small" leap forward from a F8n to a F12? When compared to what the F8 itself was as a leap forward vs the likes of an H6 etc. At the core I'm really "only" just asking for a bit more I/O, plus improved firmware (to do EQ/NR/busses), plus a CL4 as an addition to the existing F Control.
Are my requests/dreams so OUTRAGEOUS?? (I intentionally didn't include the likes of SuperSlot, or DANTE, as I knew these would appeal to an even smaller niche, and have an even heavier burden attached to the costs of delivering these)
Look at what Zoom already has with the Zoom Livetrack L8: sub $400! Has 3-band EQ for every channel (and heaps of other features too). Why not dream of having this available post fade for the F4n/F12? Look at the price leap from a Zoom Livetrack L8 to a L20 (the biggest price increase, we can ignore the small jump from a L8 to L12 if you wish), if the price leap was the same from a F8 to a F12, I'd still be down with buying a F12 if it had all of these features I laid out.
The likes of Brusfri is dirt cheap software, RTX Voice is even *free*. We're going to see NR becoming more mainstream, definitely might be in the next generation of the F Series. (in way the F8/F4/F8n/F6 are all "the same generation", soon it will be coming up to six years since the F8 was announced. Is it is so unreasonable to think about there being a new generation of F Series coming in the next year or two?)
Sure, for many people 8 channels are plenty! Heck, even four channels is plenty for most buyers of the F8.
That's why I proposed an upgraded Zoom F4n, it would be a better fit for most people! Especially as this F4n could fairly easily do even six channels (or 8 in a pinch).
But there are people who want *MORE* out of their F8n, be it more outputs, or more inputs, or something else.
Sure, for
you it makes much more sense to get the likes of say a Behringer XR18 or X32 Rack or whatever, all hooked up into a PC to record it with Reaper / ProTools / BoomRecorder / Metacorder / whatever.
But for many other people they need one or more of:
1) greater compactness/portability
2) DC powered
3) simpler/stable workflow (not rely upon a PC)
At the moment people who are doing high channel counts (be it because they're recording music on location, or a reality show, or complex SFX, or whatever) only have the choice between juggling two or three Zoom F8n (or MP10) at once, or spending many times more on a Nova/888/Scorpio/SX-R4+/X3/etc
(or ditching one or more of those three requirement listed just above, and figuring out a hodgepodge workaround)
At the core, my suggestion isn't too crazy radical (even though I called it "a dream"), I'm simply hoping Zoom picks the best bits out of a F8n / L20 / X32 Rack and combines them together all for a similar price (they're all of them sub US$1K products!) or even somewhat higher. (like I said, it could be DOUBLE the price and I'd still be down for pre-ordering one)