All the essential controls are right where you need them - no confusing menus to wade through to crank up the built-in guitar distortion - right there on the top panel. Real knobs. Real faders.

The MR8-HD features 4 balanced phantom powered XLR / unbalanced jack inputs. The 8 tracks record at true uncompressed CD quality to the internal hard drive, there's the facility for 4 track simultaneous recording, built-in mic and guitar amp simulation, reverb / delay and cool mastering effects. Plus, the USB interface and the WAV file recording make it a snap to transfer recordings to and from a PC for further editing / CD burning.

Each of the MR-8HD's 'dual' mic/line inputs has phantom power for use with professional condenser mics, it's own level control and clip LED. In addition, Input A features a special guitar input with it's own analogue distortion level control. Digital Reverb/Delay and guitar amp or mic simulation FX can be added whilst recording any track. All channels feature a 45mm volume fader and dedicated controls for pan and external FX send.

For added flexibility full 8-track bouncing is available complete with digital mastering effects.

Features:

• 8 Recording Tracks - Ultra-high quality sound - up to 16-bit resolution at 44.1 kHz without quality-sapping compression
• 4 track Simultaneous Recording - Great for capturing multiple instruments / vocal parts
• Extended Recording Time - More than 15 hours of 8-track recording at CD quality
• Full 8-track bouncing - Mix-down all tracks in stereo
• FAT32 Disc Format and WAV Recording
• USB port for easy transfer of recordings to PC. 'WAV Manager' software included
• S/P DIF Digital Out For digital mastering to external CD recorder, MD etc.
• Fantastic Built-In Digital FX - Including reverbs, delays, guitar amp simulations and microphone simulations
• Analogue Guitar Distortion, Plug a guitar right in - awesome distortion available with dedicated control knob
• 4 XLR InputsWith phantom power and trim control
• Direct CD-RW Connection - master direct to externally connected USB CD-RW

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