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30 June 2010
Fostex MR-8 MK II - Good quality, has some drawbacks
2 of 2 found this helpful My band has been looking for a multi-track recorder so that we can finally but some decent quality samples on our website. This recorder got solid reviews on other sites and being an older generation version, the price was a steal. We just want a basic recorder, that can be transferred to a hard drive and allows for some file manipulation.
Laying down tracks was a pretty straightforward, once we read the manual. You MUST read the manual, especially if you are new to recording like we are. The only drawback so far is transferring the file, whether the individual tracks or the layered song file, to the pc. Connection was painfully slow, it took almost 10 minutes for my xp to recognize the connection. Once the connection was established, the file transfer was also slow. Most likely this is because the MKII used a USB 1.0 connection. While frustrating, we are trying to work around it. We added a 4GB memory card (not micro sd) and can transfer the files using a card reader.... we hope. Haven't tried it yet, but I can't imagine why it wouldn't work.
Overall, we are pretty excited about the recorder. It is very easy to use, transferring to pc is tricky and slow. Even the file updates for the unit could not help out the speed of transfer.