Korg D888 8-Track Digital Recording Studio
I recently picked one of these up. I absolutely love it, and would recommend it to anyone looking for a simple way to cut a demo or capture song ideas. The layout is very simple, the quality is good, and for the price you also get a decent mixer to boot! If anyone has any feedback or review, feel free to post about it.
Product Description:
The Korg D888 Digital Recording Studio is an eight-input/eight-output mixer and eight-track hard disk recorder in one easy-to-use unit. Best of all for those used to analog recorders the D888 has a very analog-like look and feel that’s comfortable and very easy to use. The input jacks trim knob three-band EQ controls pan knob and fader are all placed in a straight line for each channel and channel settings are obvious at a glance. A backlit LCD screen provides additional information that’s easy to understand.
Each channel has a high-performance balanced mic preamp with TRS and XLR inputs with 48V phantom power. As a standalone mixer the 1/4″ outputs are configured to provide Monitor Out L & R; Master Out L & R and individual outs for channels 5-8 or you can switch to eight individual outputs.
The D-888 provides 16-bit/44.1kHz uncompressed recording quality with eight tracks simultaneous play and record in WAV format. You also get eight virtual tracks for each track for a total of 64 tracks in addition to a stereo master track. The recording section has easy-to-use tools like punch-in/out copy and swap operations four editing locate points for each song one hundred mark points non-destructive editing Undo and Redo functions eleven types of digital master effects and 3-band EQ on each channel. The D888 also has an assignable metronome two indpendent headphone jacks 40GB hard drive a USB 2.0 connector MIDI Time Code transmit and optical optical S/PDIF outputs.
You also get Cubase LE Recording Software thrown in Free
Korg D888 8-Track Digital Recording Studio Factory B-Stock
If you want an example, I recorded this track using it: Hopelessly Lost - 4.9mb [MP3]
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October 24th, 2008 at 8:50 am
Hi Gronkyco,
are you using preamps for microphones? Or what microphones do you use. I seem to have the problem with the Korg D 888 that has been described as “when recording a track, you use the trim pot only. I need to have the pot open almost all the way in order to get any audio at all. (I am using a Sennheiser MD 421 dynamic mic) This leaves me VERY little headroom and almost no volume in my cans.”
Are you familiar with that and do you know solutions?
Kind regards
November 17th, 2008 at 8:42 am
Most of my recordings are done with two MXL condenser mics (990,991). I know your point about having to crank the pre-amps. I basically have them at 95% in order to get any decent sound.
I picked up a pre-amp, but my house seems to have a little “hum and crackle” in the power. I think i need a power conditioner in order to get the noise to go away.