Fostex MR-8 MkII 8 Track Digital Multitracker

It is amazing! Best price, quaity and description ever! The only thing missing was the instruction manual, but I found it free online! I reccomend this recorder to pro's and first timers!!

This is a great digital 8-track unit with both battery & AC power supply it can be used in the field or at home. Very clean sound and very easy to use. I have used it for everything from live music to taking old real-to-real tapes and making great sounding CD. A true "work-horse" in recorder/mixer at a good price. And now with most things using SD or some other small memory card. The price on Conpact Flash memory is very low now making it an even better deal.

This is a great portable recorder. You can record without instructions as soon as you take it out of the box.If you can operate a normal recorder....you can do this one.Get one and try it out

Shipped quickly to uss. Excellent sound and processing for the price. Bought it for my son who is having fun with it recording multiple instruments and tracks for songs.

I checked and reviewed several different types of recorders. For the money this was the best thing.

Some issues with transfer of songs to PC, but could be PC.

I upgraded SW on recorder to latest level, easy to use once you understand the basics.

I record on it, but mix my music on the PC where it's easier to manipulate.

Only real issue is length of recordings are limited to size of media card which is 2Gb max. I had 2 card and swap during a very long session. I also break each song apart and this takes a vew seconds to do between songs.

As an electronic drummer/acoustic percussionist, the mr-8 mk2 is almost perfect. For $150, I’ve got solid 6-trak recording capabilities.

I do editing with Audacity but wanted something durable & portable for the road. I dump the totally raw tracks into my laptop & do minimal editing/mixing/fx there. For aspiring producers/audio engineers, I recommend a laptop w/ pro level software. For rolling stone musicians like myself, I rec this or the Tascam DP2 CF. Anything w/o XLR inputs & phantom power is a toy.

While the mr-8 is capable of producing a final CD via an external usb burner in its host mode, I would NOT use it to produce even a demo CD. I recommend it to lay down 4-6 tracks anywhere inspiration strikes. U can then dump the tracks onto a CPU for finalizing & burning a CD.

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6 AA battery power enhances portability; Invest in rechargeables batteries
built-in mic is ok 4 capturing ideas b4 they disappear; I surprisingly use it a lot ;-)
2 xlr inputs with phantom power
MIDI OUT for syncing with my MPC drum sampler
2 headphone outputs - genius

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need wav manager software to transfer tracks between PC [free but annoying]
maximum 2gb cf card = max ~400 mins of single track mono recording
actually 6 tracks, since tracks 5/6 and 7/8 are paired stereo channels
basic reverb,delay but NO EQ – software fills in here anyway

---dok brown music