Laura R.
It won't record plugged in. Read below.
You want to know what you can't do with this device. You won't be able to record your electric guitar by plugin in, you can't record vocals using a microphone either. The only way to record is to use the two average built in mics. You won't be able to record any type of audio coming in via the guitar/mic in input. And that's a bummer! I thought I could use it to record my electric guitar for future reference, that I could record a show connecting a cable from my aviom mixer to the boss. But you can't. If I knew this before I wouldn't have bought it in the first place. It comes with FX distortion, delay, flanger but oddly enough and reverb... And you can't record with the effects on, again, you can't plug your guitar. What you can do and what it is for, is just to plug and play. It comes with a metronome, a tuner, you can add your backing tracks and practice a whole show. You can slow the tempo of the songs. It also comes with a series of play along tracks in various music styles that I don't think I will ever use, but some kid might have fun with it. The battery consumes fast, I've used it for 8 hours and the batteries are already dead. It is well built, seems good quality, easy to use, very intuitive and I like it, I'm gonna keep it, but I wouldn't recommend buying it for a musician who wants to record their performance. It is more a device to plug and play than to actually record.
It comes with a SD card inside, which was a pleasant surprise. I didn't try it as an interface yet, the manual comes in Japanese, so I use the Google translate camera to read it. It says a driver you have to install first comes in the SD card. I'll try it as interface when I get a card reader. Even though I am disappointed that it doesn't record as I expected, I like this little machine very much.
