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Thinkin of pickin up a Fostex MR8...opinions?..


EmptinesOf Youth

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I just traded a Tascam Portastudio5 for a Fostex MR8. The Fostex is far more substantial. Still trying to figure out how to work it. The manual is light years better.

 

Only thing I have not liked so far is I ran out of room and I hadn't even done one song. Manual says you should have six minutes at 44.1 with four tracks but I had only three tracks (two acoustic guitar and one vocal0 and three minutes and ran out. Deleted "unused" file and still ran out. So, I dunno what's going on there. It has 128mb card. Everything I read said you'd need a bigger card but I never read anything saying you couldn't even get ONE song down.

 

Will try again today. Much more satisfied in overall quality. Appears to be more like a mini digital mixer.

 

The screen is hard to read but it's a minor gripe.

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Yes, it all sounds good. I just deleted everything and started over. I now have a song with three tracks complete... two acoustic guitar, one vocal. Now I think I am supposed to bounce those to Track 7/8 and then export that as stereo wave file to PC. And then I assume I can burn it to CD. Remains to be seen, as when I bounce, that takes up two more tracks, meaning more memory. Maybe it will make it. I haven't done much recording, so...

 

There is a decent FAQ on Fostex site on a forum they have: FAQ Link

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