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Out of stock | | | The MR-8 from Fostex breaks the price barrier for professional quality 8 track digital recorders. The MR-8 records to readily available Compact Flash cards (one is included), and has built in effects. A studio in a box for under 300 bucks! | | | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Product Weight: | 7.0 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 10 reviews |
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 Fun little recording machine May 22, 2008
I've had my MR-8 for 5 years now and, although I haven't used it a whole lot during that time, when I have recorded tracks with it, I've always been amazed at the results. Back in the 80's when those 4-track Teac cassette multitrackers came out, I wanted one pretty bad but never did get one, so when this "new toy" came out, I held out no longer. I decided to go with this unit due to being overwhelmed & frustrated with computer recording programs and, let me tell you, the day I brought the MR-8 home I was recording multitracks as easily as recording on a cassette machine. While you're obviously not going to get a polished studio sound out of this, you can get a pretty darn good recording out of it, if everything else is done right along the way (proper miking, good room acoustics...the basics of good recording). The main reasons you should get an MR-8 - especially if you're starting out and want to learn multitracking basics- is that it's easy to use, sounds more than good enough to post music recorded on it to MySpace and similar sites, and is just plain fun!
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
Great for what I do with it. Nov 14, 2006
I have an MR-8 and have had it since new. I use it for field recording and live recording of concerts. It works very well and files transfer to my Mac quite easily. I know that I could edit and mix internally but I can't imagine ever doing so -- I use this to bring outside sounds to my studio. For this reason, I will never use most of the functionality. It can be used with CF cards up to 2 Gig -- the web site has a list of cards that have been tested and are known to work (interestingly, the SanDisk cards that I use are not recommended but I have had no problems).
The manual and web site do not mention that all of the file transfer functions and systerm updates can be done on a Macintosh but it's easy and intuative using the USB port.
Tech support is inadequate but there is a good user forum that is up to date and knowledgable. The Mr-8 comes in two colors: red and black. The black one was later but updating the firmware makes both identical.
If I had my way, there would be support for more than 2 tracks of simultaneous record and phantom power would be available (it is on the MkII). Using a mixer bypasses the adequate (but not great) mic pre-amps. For what I use it for, I am happy with the job it does.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
A great low-priced recording "studio" Jun 20, 2006
I just have to chime in and say my brother and I have been using this product for years now and it is great. To the two complaints below: For the one who hears noise when pushing rec, I am guessing you have the ext mic on (or would it be internal? At any rate, the built-in mic). To the one whose card doesn't work ..... Well, I don't know honestly. I've never had that problem and have never had to update it online. I didn't even know you could.
At any rate, compared to the insane prices of most of this type of equipment, this is a great deal. It may not be quite "professional" quality but it's really not bad at all. A great product that I would recommend.
9 of 24 found the following review helpful:
 Terrible Product Dec 29, 2005
This could be the worst buying choice I've ever made!
I researched this product and others for over 5 months and finally bought it off of Amazon. When it finally arrived I was thrilled to get recording. After about two hours of recording time the card, a card error message appeared! I could no longer record anything on the card. Whenever i turned on the machine the card error message appeared and the machine froze. After doing extensive research on the fostex site i learned that the SOFTWARE HAS A FLAW IN IT!!! You actually have to update the software through the internet, which i couldn't do because the machine froze. I tried contacting customer service but they don't accept phone calls and were closed for vacation. TERRIBLE!
I need to return this product ASAP. !!!!!WARNING DO NOT BUY!!!!!!
7 of 8 found the following review helpful:
Great-Easy! Dec 26, 2005
This is my first piece of recording equpiment. It was really easy to learn how to use. I found it to be very "non-frustrating", so I could concentrate on my music instead of getting the damn thing to work. The final sound quality is quite good-sounds great on my ipod although I have yet to burn my recordings to cd. The only thing is it comes with a crappy memory card that holds like, 3 songs at most. So you'll probably have to buy an additional one with more memory. Don't start a long project on the original memory card. Overall I love my MR-8.
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