"Everything's great about it, but beware: the modelling effects stink though!"

Feature:
CD burner and the 20GB hard drive are the most useful features for myself, personally.

Quality:
high quality all the way, construction wise!

Sound:
Once you have read up and know what to do, this baby's fine....BUT: I must say that the factory onboard modelled effects patches completely ! I record dry-in when I track with it, and get most of the effects sound I may want straight out of my amplifier instead...The straight effects used for mixing and mastering are alright, it's just the modelled patches that are god-awful....

Support:
no support necessary as of yet, after owning it for a year and a half now

"LITERALLY a studio in a box!!!!"

Feature:
This is our personal portable studio! It does not get ne better than this one!

Quality:
This product i believe is made very well, but we are not risking it. we take very good care of ours and don't plan on testing its durability any time soon.

Value:
So far i enjoy every pennie spent.

Desirability:
When i first saw it i was happy that we had an 8 track, but then i looked at it and saw BOSS then i became even happier, then i saw that it was basically a computer then i really wanted it, finally i saw that it was a cd writer and a burner.....THAT WAS IT!!!! so we bought it.

Sound:
The sound is awesome once u get it the recorder down. the only problem i found was the static sound that u get from ur Marshall, BUT once u master the songs it makes it perfectly clear.

Overall:
the day they come out with something that has twice as much capabilities and then some. soooo not for a while probably.

"TOP OF THE $1K MULTITRACK FOODCHAIN!!!!!"

Feature:
The features are good. Half of them you won't need to use if you have or plan on investing in good mics, nearfield moniters, etc,.

Quality:
If its made by roland, then you know its good. I have a JC-120 along with my BR-1180CD. Both of them are outstanding, solid, professionally made pieces of equipment.

Value:
cost/use ratio = 1-1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

Desirability:
Put it this way. If this were a woman, I would have 15 little br1180's running around right now.

Sound:
The sound is better than sex. I can make just as quality recordings with this as my "tools that are pro" friends. You must be able to understand what "dynamics processing" and "compression" really mean before getting mad because your recording isn't "cd quality", because contrary to what you may have heard from other users I have made many cd quality recordings.

Support:
Again, if its made by roland, its solid. I have'nt had a problem with my new recorder, but I have had to call roland before to get some new pots for my volume and eq knobs on my JC-120. Not only was getting parts easy, they coached me through the replacement process. HOW COOL!

Overall:
I've tried many other multi-tracks (analog and digital) but in this price range, nothing compares. If everyone interested could just try it before they waste thier money on "computer based recording software/interfaces that unless you have a phd in audio production you'll never get anywhere with, then half of all homerecording muscians would own this unit.

"Boss BR1180cd. It,s all here waiting for you."

Feature:
Its all there, great guitar effects, nice vocal and hall efx ,eq could use a little warming up but falls in line with the rest of the product.

Quality:
Solid unit with proper case would likly be very road worthy.

Value:
Best bang for your buck.

Desirability:
I bought it because it is well layed out and it suits my needs. Is that sexy?

Sound:
As far as sound goes the BR 1180 cd is terrific right down to the headphone jack.I know, I have poor quality monitors but they sound great with this unit. Easy to use initially but there,s a trainload of stuff that will supply you with all the tricks that will help you to make a very near pro studio demo. This unit will pay for itself in studio time in no time.UR the boss keep it up.

Support:
I own many Roland/Boss products .I,ve also owned many other quality brand named products.Roland in particullar may not be totally accesable for tech info but once you have made the proper connection there seems to be a boundless amount of information and people willing to help you sort out a tech problem.No complaints.

Overall:
Waiting for an afordable 16 track version/with mouse control and a monitor output. That,s only after I,ve licked every tech aspect of this one. Who knows maybe i,ll be ready when they are? If it were lost or stolen I would definatly replace it with the same only with the upgraded software. The cosm guitar sounds are great adage the manual can be vague, somehow Japanese does not translate to english very well, I know I,ve worked for a Japanese car co. for the past 25 yrs.