Christian Spaeth Posted April 14, 2015 Report Share Posted April 14, 2015 Dr680's competition More like HS-P82a and R88 competition, at the price of a Dr 680! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniel Posted April 14, 2015 Report Share Posted April 14, 2015 More like HS-P82a and R88 competition, at the price of a Dr 680! perhaps even the RX4+ if it has 2 sets of O/Ps :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VASI Posted April 14, 2015 Report Share Posted April 14, 2015 perhaps even the RX4+ if it has 2 sets of O/Ps :-) Sonosax SX-R4+ vs Zoom F8 is a joke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
resonate Posted April 14, 2015 Report Share Posted April 14, 2015 did you see their q8 camera? the touchscreen doesn't even work properly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boomboom Posted April 14, 2015 Report Share Posted April 14, 2015 I applaud the fact that the screen is on the left side, seems more natural to me Yes ! as a right-handed holding the boom with left hand, I'd like to see more of these too; like SQN did (or still makes, I lost track...) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
engaudio Posted April 14, 2015 Report Share Posted April 14, 2015 Sonosax SX-R4+ vs Zoom F8 is a joke. Sonically no comparison, but I imagine any decent recordist would use something like an SQN with the prefader out option in front to increase the quality of the zooms audio. That's what I'd do.. Grant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Panfeld Posted April 14, 2015 Report Share Posted April 14, 2015 Exactly Grant. I could front this with my old-school Soundcraft GP1 analog board. Now, what would be really brilliant, would be the Zoom F8's to accept AES; making this a 10-track bit bucket with timecode. Someone could front this with the new Zaxcom 32 board/interface as a primary or backup recorder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Silberberg Posted April 16, 2015 Report Share Posted April 16, 2015 I was at NAB , so I stopped by and saw this recorder. The Zoom rep let me take pictures and he mentioned that it was 1 of only 2 machines existing in the world, but they want to start shipping them Q4 of 2015 . The F8 is just about the size of the SD 633, maybe a little taller. There's a blue multipin jack on the back which is an analogue connection for the Zoom microphones. It seemed kind of strange to me to have a mic connected to the bottom of this kind of box recorder , but maybe they have cables for it too?... I don't know. He had no comment on the price. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olle Sjostrom Posted April 16, 2015 Report Share Posted April 16, 2015 What about metadata? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boomboom Posted April 16, 2015 Report Share Posted April 16, 2015 Seems it's still an ''empty box'' waiting to be filled with some actual tangible specs and I bet they'll be monitoring forums here and there in months to come... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Feeley Posted April 16, 2015 Report Share Posted April 16, 2015 I saw it yesterday, too. Was told pretty much was everyone else here was: It's just a mockup right now, aim for Sept/Oct release, but I was told price isn't set at all but expected to be in line with other Zoom products. The two dudes at the booth when I was there didn't know much about the device or production audio in general. Does it have tone? Don't know. Tell me more about the TC? Sorry. And boy are those knobs tiny. Interesting I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dolo72 Posted April 17, 2015 Report Share Posted April 17, 2015 Sonically no comparison, but I imagine any decent recordist would use something like an SQN with the prefader out option in front to increase the quality of the zooms audio. That's what I'd do.. Grant. I have been harassing a UK multitrack manufacturer to make a mini version of their 24track recorder to do exactly what you say. There are loads of amazing sounding SQN Cooper Filmtech Sonosax and Audio Developments eng mixers on the second hand market - turning these into multitrack recorders would be great. Lisala Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osa Posted April 17, 2015 Report Share Posted April 17, 2015 I applaud the fact that the screen is on the left side, seems more natural to me, and the nice dedicated single function transport controls on the front, a win in my book, assuming it sounds ok. Wow being left handed this had never occured to me -Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
engaudio Posted April 17, 2015 Report Share Posted April 17, 2015 I've often used my SQN as a mic pre in a home studio when doing demotapes for bands, often I get a wtf look till they hear the difference. I have been harassing a UK multitrack manufacturer to make a mini version of their 24track recorder to do exactly what you say. There are loads of amazing sounding SQN Cooper Filmtech Sonosax and Audio Developments eng mixers on the second hand market - turning these into multitrack recorders would be great. Lisala Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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