i bought my vs-840 ex for £42 i love it bought some zip disc, im just crap with tech, trying to add drums from a zoom mrt-3, then vocals, still learning, but what a great peice of kit. win win in my book.
Wow, Zip Disks were the cutting edge technology of 1998! @:*) I have a VS-840, still use it all the time, now mixing down to my "new" (old) Philips CDR 795. I don't find it as simple and easy as this guy says, glad I have the manual...
Hi, Well at this point I just record and mix all the parts onto the zip disks; save the mix then mix down to the Philips to make CDs. I assume you want to record stereo. Just connect your master out to your digital ins and tell the mix-down deck where to put your mix. The philips CDR 795 has two CD ports so you can copy one CD onto another, so I create a master then copy it. The only problem is figuring out how the VS-840 works -- there are lots of times that I have to go back to that manual!!!
I have a lot of their instructional vids, but I only upload the demos because the demos are by the maker whereas the instructional vids are put out by one company that does it for many makers and is still at it, sells them, so they're much more likely to get copyright strikes. Plus I was more into the demos that pure instruction anyway.
I ordered a Roland DB-1 Studio Doorbell from GC, and now everybody rings the darn thing in the middle of every recording session. Plus, it sounds harsh and thin and lacks the warmth and punch of Roland's vintage analog vacuum tube doorbell. Grrr!
I've had one since 1998. The zip disk was a cost problem for me back then; they were £10 each. Technological progress & Ebay came to my rescue over recent years; I now have bucketloads of disks that cost me pence. Using one disk for each song is the only way - recording quality set at best and away I go. Ease of use - it IS easy if you are prepared to put a bit of time into studying the manual and putting in some practice. Results - excellent. Endorsements - I get work from a pro musician!
@blue9z - I have to disagree just a little bit. Once you learn this thing it is VERY simple to use, expecially compared to some of todays boards... I sometimes pass up my newer equipment and use this old thing just because I always get such a good sound. The only draw back of this thing is the damn zip drive. If this thing had a hard drive I would use it much more.
I use to record on my friends in his studio and it was amazing at the time, was the pc that couldn't cope with latency back then.. I recently found on in the side walk, took it home and exactamundo! It works... Although I have not a clue how to use it.. Anyone know any commercial airline pilots? Still old style gizmo bling.. 🤘
I used to make some pretty solid recordings with this. Can't believe it cost me like $1,500 (in the year 2000). I have a smaller tascam now that does the same stuff that I got for $300. Times have changed. Haha.
According to a mate of mine who used to be a sound engineer for Pink Floyd years ago. It was all down to bad timing / marketing on Sony's behalf. Who were the original creators of the minidisc. I still have a minidisc player in my studio and a portable minidisc recorder. I was going to fit a minidisc player in my car but it already has a big fascia'd cd player which actually sounds really good !
"Hey man, with the Roland VS-840, I can take my zip file over to your house and we can work on it together. Look out man, my Mercy Blue mix is gonna be better than yours!"
@jafafah0ts So do they have the technology now to rectify that? If so, I reckon they should relaunch it. Although I spose having said that, everyone uses flash drives, hard drives and ipods now. and I guess CD's are gradually being faded out now.
Ooooh all the changing colors. Just like the 60's...or so I'm told. Hey, where can I get that lighting effect for stage use? 8mm handicam? Anyway all seriousness aside a pretty cool machine for the time but I always had a difficult time with the small screens and the endless menus.
J Fields yes, Amazon had VS models but not the one I had, then I checked eBay & a vendor called Heybro had like 3 new in box. Shipped from Korea. I’ve been in heaven since it arrived. I’m an underground country rapper and this is what I record my tracks on.
WOAH.. YEAH DUDE, COOL BABY.. YEEHA !! They don't make em like that any more.. Gorgonzola cheesy !! It's fascinating to see how audio kit has progressed over the years, some have been overtaken, others become classic effects that everyone wants.. like the space echo etc. The one thing I can't understand is why the CD won popularity over the minidisc. The minidisc is far better. They're all rewritable, they're protected inside a case and smaller. CD's as we know, scratch worse than vinyl !!
I used to have an 880. Man, that thing was horrible. I don't think I've ever used a machine with a less intuitive interface. You needed the manual to do virtually anything with it. I replaced it with a korg d16xd and never needed the manual once.
Believe me...this thing ain't that easy to use. Routing apart from "Easy Routing" is horrible (everything is based on a very complex BUS-system). If you want a recording tool for plug-and-play purposes don't go for this one. The same applies to the 880 and the 890. Great internal effects...but that's it.
3.000 pesos? Me parece que son unos 175 euros! en ebay las he visto por unos 60 euros, pero sin disco duro. Diria que es un aparato muy completo pero para mi, dificil de manejar!
BECAUSE OF DUMB PEOPLE...THE SMART PHONES COST NEARLY 1000$....! THANKS FOR OPPORTUNITY WHEN YOU CAN GET ONE AT LESS THAN 40$ IT S AWESOME...!!! IT S GREAT MACHINE IF YOU KNOW HOW TO USE IT... COMPACT , GOOD FX AND IT S MADE FOR HUMBLE MUSICIANS. I HAVE THIS ONE , COLLECTION OF MINI DISC PLAYER TOO IT S GREAT INVENTIONS..BIG THANKS TO JAPAN CHALLENGE.
"tape is history man, this is a zip disk " :O)
wish I had friends like this :(
no you don't
I'll be your friend hehe
1:09 is the best comedy bit in the history of comedy bits.
brad really needs to get a grip.
i mean...you got 999 levels of undo, for god sake.
these guys are so freaking cool!
2:38 "I'm stylin' with this thing" hahahah
And user friendly too! Your recording is only 80 clicks away.
i bought my vs-840 ex for £42 i love it bought some zip disc, im just crap with tech, trying to add drums from a zoom mrt-3, then vocals, still learning, but what a great peice of kit. win win in my book.
yo shoutout to the 90s
Wow, Zip Disks were the cutting edge technology of 1998! @:*) I have a VS-840, still use it all the time, now mixing down to my "new" (old) Philips CDR 795. I don't find it as simple and easy as this guy says, glad I have the manual...
It wasn't as easy as they said, haha. It did help me navigate a digital mixing console when those became a thing, since it was similar.
I found it pretty simple and I was having zip disk issues so I rigged it to take SD cards
Ahhhh, clever! :*)
how did you rig it? that would make my life way easier 😏
Hi,
Well at this point I just record and mix all the parts onto the zip disks; save the mix then mix down to the Philips to make CDs. I assume you want to record stereo. Just connect your master out to your digital ins and tell the mix-down deck where to put your mix. The philips CDR 795 has two CD ports so you can copy one CD onto another, so I create a master then copy it. The only problem is figuring out how the VS-840 works -- there are lots of times that I have to go back to that manual!!!
Thank you for posting this. I haven't laughed so hard in a long time. "Tape is history... exactamundo."
There was an instructional vhs they sold which I bought. I wonder if that’s somewhere on UA-cam lol
I have a lot of their instructional vids, but I only upload the demos because the demos are by the maker whereas the instructional vids are put out by one company that does it for many makers and is still at it, sells them, so they're much more likely to get copyright strikes. Plus I was more into the demos that pure instruction anyway.
Used to live that thing! 😍
awesome time machine factor!
I was a huge fan of mini disc too.
@naomifair10 Yes - though any mic inputs need to be via jack plugs rather than XLR
one of these came up for sale on craigslist recently, I'm considering buying it just to make jokes about this video with my friends
YAN! YAN! YAN!
Cheesy doorbell in the studio..niiiice onee!!
I ordered a Roland DB-1 Studio Doorbell from GC, and now everybody rings the darn thing in the middle of every recording session. Plus, it sounds harsh and thin and lacks the warmth and punch of Roland's vintage analog vacuum tube doorbell. Grrr!
a la whos the boss style hehe
"We can experiment without worry."
Wink, wink.
I've had one since 1998. The zip disk was a cost problem for me back then; they were £10 each. Technological progress & Ebay came to my rescue over recent years; I now have bucketloads of disks that cost me pence. Using one disk for each song is the only way - recording quality set at best and away I go.
Ease of use - it IS easy if you are prepared to put a bit of time into studying the manual and putting in some practice. Results - excellent.
Endorsements - I get work from a pro musician!
Hello , please do you know which model of emulator works with this old but cool machine? Thanks.
Love my vs1680..😁👍
@blue9z - I have to disagree just a little bit. Once you learn this thing it is VERY simple to use, expecially compared to some of todays boards... I sometimes pass up my newer equipment and use this old thing just because I always get such a good sound. The only draw back of this thing is the damn zip drive. If this thing had a hard drive I would use it much more.
2:05 "everything I need is right here they've made the, the...... err...... Oh yeah VS840 so easy to use!"
love the vs2480 :) i sold it and regret it..... now again buying a 2480
ohh god, it's a best comedy sketch I ever saw!
Kind of like a bad acting pork flick
@@danarcotta1283 hahahaha you call porn 'pork flicks?'
Thanks for uploading!
omg did i look this funny in 98 i would been 27 at the time lmao wow
I'm forced into using my old workstation again. No latency problems like you get with Garageband.
6:59 "Man you better get the balance right, I'm having a bounce down anxiety attack over here!"
I use to record on my friends in his studio and it was amazing at the time, was the pc that couldn't cope with latency back then.. I recently found on in the side walk, took it home and exactamundo! It works... Although I have not a clue how to use it.. Anyone know any commercial airline pilots? Still old style gizmo bling.. 🤘
cool video nice track
I used to make some pretty solid recordings with this. Can't believe it cost me like $1,500 (in the year 2000). I have a smaller tascam now that does the same stuff that I got for $300. Times have changed. Haha.
dude you can get them for $50
According to a mate of mine who used to be a sound engineer for Pink Floyd years ago. It was all down to bad timing / marketing on Sony's behalf. Who were the original creators of the minidisc. I still have a minidisc player in my studio and a portable minidisc recorder. I was going to fit a minidisc player in my car but it already has a big fascia'd cd player which actually sounds really good !
Now we have plug ins for tape hiss
I wonder if they had a masti over it after....they are great though.mines now used ad a mixer into the laptop
Word Processor?!
"Strong wind that blows them head!"
Does anyone know how I can get "Mercy Blue"? Can't find it anywhere...
"Hey man, with the Roland VS-840, I can take my zip file over to your house and we can work on it together. Look out man, my Mercy Blue mix is gonna be better than yours!"
Anybody know what the intro song is a rip off of? There's a real song that sounds just like that.
hey how's it going
Stylin'
@@svenjansen2134 i guess so
ya la compre... apenas me llego... no la he probado, haber como me va con las instrucciones.
@jafafah0ts
So do they have the technology now to rectify that?
If so, I reckon they should relaunch it.
Although I spose having said that, everyone uses flash drives, hard drives and ipods now.
and I guess CD's are gradually being faded out now.
cool cool
Hello
please someone could tell me which model of emulator usb or sd works with this old but cool Roland product? Thanks .0
Hilarious. I’m here because I’ve got this machine and have no idea how to “make stylin’” with it. It costed me just £30.
Nathan Furman
I just bought one for £50 and now I've watched this video I'm even more excited than I was to begin with!
i cannot updat to 2.50 for sd... im super sad pls help me if you can... i have 840 with 1.05 and cannot update to ex....
"I'm styling with this thing"
"We can experiment without worry"
"You're gonna have to get over your tape based fears Brad"
Hair styling.
-In fact, we can record eight different guitar solos on this track alone
-Man... That´s awesome!!
LMFAO
I modded mine with a flash card reader.
Post a how to video !!
Ooooh all the changing colors. Just like the 60's...or so I'm told. Hey, where can I get that lighting effect for stage use? 8mm handicam? Anyway all seriousness aside a pretty cool machine for the time but I always had a difficult time with the small screens and the endless menus.
Intro track ID?
This is terribly cheesy, but it actually makes me want to use it. I actually own one, and LOL I have absolutely no idea where I got it.
It’s 2018. This is what I use to record tracks with. Still. Just bought a new one from Korea. Brand new.
J Fields yes, Amazon had VS models but not the one I had, then I checked eBay & a vendor called Heybro had like 3 new in box. Shipped from Korea. I’ve been in heaven since it arrived. I’m an underground country rapper and this is what I record my tracks on.
Hello, do you émulate it? And do you know which model of gotek works with this cool machine! Thanks
is it possible to record direct into the pc...? we dont got a zip-drive and those are hard to get
I have one of these but the disk wont eject - any help out there?
that's a late 90s demo for ya
Hello do you try to émulate ? Thanks
Now that i got mine....IM STYLIN"
nice
WOAH.. YEAH DUDE, COOL BABY.. YEEHA !!
They don't make em like that any more.. Gorgonzola cheesy !!
It's fascinating to see how audio kit has progressed over the years, some have been overtaken, others become classic effects that everyone wants.. like the space echo etc.
The one thing I can't understand is why the CD won popularity over the minidisc.
The minidisc is far better. They're all rewritable, they're protected inside a case and smaller. CD's as we know, scratch worse than vinyl !!
Also Thinking about upgrading to SD card
I used to have an 880. Man, that thing was horrible. I don't think I've ever used a machine with a less intuitive interface. You needed the manual to do virtually anything with it. I replaced it with a korg d16xd and never needed the manual once.
ya sabes usarla??? :/ es util?? me venden una. en 3 mil
Who puts a doorbell in a studio???
lol. Nice video.
boldlittleairwave not me
I just bought this yesterday. confusing as fuck but great sound.
Word.....Processor????????
There’s a ton of weird sexual tension between these two guys.
Is this the room in the garage, above where this dude keeps his prisoners??
That's what YOU see lol
hi can my band play directly to the unit?
I just got one and yes its possible but there's a slight input delay
Believe me...this thing ain't that easy to use. Routing apart from "Easy Routing" is horrible (everything is based on a very complex BUS-system). If you want a recording tool for plug-and-play purposes don't go for this one. The same applies to the 880 and the 890. Great internal effects...but that's it.
3.000 pesos? Me parece que son unos 175 euros! en ebay las he visto por unos 60 euros, pero sin disco duro. Diria que es un aparato muy completo pero para mi, dificil de manejar!
So cheesy but not a bad demo, It's pretty much idiot-proof
"Im stylin'", "word processor" LMFAO...it was '98 0_o
what is the voltage of the unit sir.,
Jeffrey Nobleza mine is 120-240
Zip disc ⚡
5:40 exactamundo
this is a aosem vidoe
Really?......
Yes it it.
I had to laugh, the singer sounds a lot like Cher
HAHAHAH I'll bet these are all collecting dust , along with that SR-16 or Boss whatever it is. Great upload though.
no no no just bought one and dumped all my old cassettes !!!
talbotvanman HAHAHAHAH
Boss.
omegalul
tape is history,... ahaha now it's your zip the history!!
01:10 oh man, I hate tay piss!
patrick bateman
5:12 no mistake is ever fatal with the Roland VS-840. Yes, there is buying this piece a shit for one!
"easy to use". Yeah, nah.
cheesy but cool lol
no nostalgia here, that's for sure..i hated this thing..i am trying to find way to transfer my zip drives to logic -- anybody got any suggestions?
A soundcard plugged into a pc
what bad actors, terrible video
BECAUSE OF DUMB PEOPLE...THE SMART PHONES COST NEARLY 1000$....!
THANKS FOR OPPORTUNITY WHEN YOU CAN GET ONE AT LESS THAN 40$ IT S AWESOME...!!!
IT S GREAT MACHINE IF YOU KNOW HOW TO USE IT...
COMPACT , GOOD FX AND IT S MADE FOR HUMBLE MUSICIANS.
I HAVE THIS ONE , COLLECTION OF MINI DISC PLAYER TOO
IT S GREAT INVENTIONS..BIG THANKS TO JAPAN CHALLENGE.