{"product_id":"zoom-r20-16-track-multitrack-recorder-audio-interface-and-controller","title":"Zoom R20 16-Track Multitrack Recorder, Audio Interface and Controller","description":"\u003cp\u003eMultitrack recorders have traditionally asked musicians to learn a device before they can use it. The R20 is Zoom's answer to that, built around a 4.3 inch colour LCD touchscreen that behaves the way people already expect a screen to behave. You drag regions, pinch to zoom, swipe through a song, and get on with the music.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eSixteen tracks and eight inputs\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe R20 records 16 tracks through eight physical inputs, six of them XLR and two combo jacks. The input count is what really decides what you can do in a room. Six XLRs takes a drum kit properly, or covers a live band with a microphone on each source, and the two combo inputs handle guitars and line level gear. A singer songwriter builds a song up a layer at a time across the 16 tracks. A band plays a take together and keeps every source on its own track for mixing later.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eThe preamps\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003eZoom describes the R20 as having the best preamps and noise floor of any multitrack recorder the company has ever designed. That shows up most on quiet sources, acoustic guitar, close vocals and room mics, where preamp noise is the difference between a recording that sounds finished and one that needs cleaning up before anyone hears it.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eEditing without a computer\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003eCut, copy, combine and loop are all done on the touchscreen. Regions are handled visually, so comping a vocal or looping a section to test an arrangement idea happens in the room rather than after an export. Colour coding runs through the whole unit, with faders, gain dials and screen regions sharing colours, which sounds cosmetic right up to the moment you reach for the wrong channel during a take.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eInterface and controller\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe R20 also connects to a computer, working as an audio interface and as a control surface, and it handles mass storage transfers for moving files off the unit. That makes it a standalone recorder when you want to be away from a screen and part of a computer setup when you do not.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zoom","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49101173522688,"sku":"R20","price":499.08,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/0871\/5776\/files\/zoom-r20-01.jpg?v=1785436114","url":"https:\/\/musicshop.sg\/products\/zoom-r20-16-track-multitrack-recorder-audio-interface-and-controller","provider":"Musicshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}