[quote name='Clive Thorne' post='321257' date='Nov 3 2008, 07:48 PM']My apologies if this subject has been covered before.
I am looking to get myself a portable trainer device (Christmas is coming). I've looked at a few on paper, but not actually tried any. To be honest, based on the specs the Tascam looks to be the best option for me, but I was hoping to some solicit opinions from anyone here who's actually used any of them.
The ones I've looked at are the Korg Pandora, the Tascam MP-BT1 bass trainer, and the Boss MicroBR. The impression I get is that the Boss thing seems to be more targeted at recording and effects rather than training, and the Korg has lots of effects and amp/speaker emulations, but a very limited memory and only a short loop facility.
The Tascam seems to have a fair memory capacity, but doesn't allow you to record anything, the only way to load anything being via USB.
Also the tascam doesn't have any auxiliary input, so if what you want isn't loaded then your stuck unless you've got it on your PC. Neither does it have any sort of rythm generator/drum machine (which some of the others have), so you'd have to load any drum tracks as a song via the USB.
As I say, at the moment I'm favouring the Tascam, but am interested in opinions on the above three or anyother such device.
Thanks in advance for your thoughts.
PS I already have a simple headphone amp set up, but am looking to move up from that.[/quote]
I had a pandora version 3 (can't remeber the model code - it was the red one) which was good, but I know have the tascam which has no drum machine (but it has a metronome) but obviously stores mp3's. it is a great piece of kit, and is useful for working out covers as well as general practice. I'd recommend it