{"id":507,"date":"2026-01-03T21:56:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T21:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/?p=507"},"modified":"2026-01-03T21:56:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T21:56:52","slug":"zoom-mrs-8-vs-hd16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/03\/zoom-mrs-8-vs-hd16\/","title":{"rendered":"Zoom MRS-8 vs HD16"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I\u2019ve been spending some time comparing the Zoom MRS-8 to the HD16. I\u2019m not familiar with either in detail so I may miss important details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>functionally it is easy to move from one to the other. They have nearly the same button and features with th HD16 having a few extra physical elements to speed up access.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_3997-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_3997-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_3997-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_3997-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_3997-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_3997-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_3997-1568x1176.jpeg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I was curious if the file access (selecting projects, etc.) was faster on the HD. I assumed the SD card slowed down the MRS. Selecting projects is faster. However initial boot up is slower. Mine performs a long scan of the drive for projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>also of interest is that the A\/B loop is no smoother. Both have a delay at the end of the loop. It is nothing like smoothly looping a section in a DAW.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>they are both fun to use and give their own feel to the process of creating music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been spending some time comparing the Zoom MRS-8 to the HD16. I\u2019m not familiar with either in detail so I may miss important details. functionally it is easy to move from one to the other. They have nearly the same button and features with th HD16 having a few extra physical elements to speed &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/03\/zoom-mrs-8-vs-hd16\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Zoom MRS-8 vs HD16&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509,"href":"https:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions\/509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metajack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}