Compare Tascam DR680 8-track Portable Digital Field Audio Recorder Discount Sale Low Price
Is the Tascam perfect, no. I have a Deva 5, and that is a great machine but it's $13,000. I needed a second multi-track portable field recorder and bought the Tascam DR-680. My pro's are it sounds good, handles spl, pretty easy to use, good with power, and has six inputs. My cons are that the switches on the unit can be accidentally switched quite easily, power up is slow, selecting recording channels is clumsy, does not retain all defaults from last power down, and the solo engage is too slow. Metering is okay, not as good as the Deva 5. I am recording a lot of sound effects of planes and cars with it right now and was happy enough to have bought a second DR-680 today, This is a pretty good unit for the price.
Tascam DR680 8-track Portable Digital Field Audio Recorder Features
- 8-track portable recording
- Stereo 24-bit/192kHz recording mode4-channel MP3 recording
- Cascade function for running two units together
- Auto-recording mode begins recording when the input reaches a certain level
- Mark function during recording
TASCAM's DR-680 brings multi-channel portable recording within reach of any musician for polished live, location and surround recordings. Up to eight tracks can be recorded to solid-state SD card media at 96kHz/24-bit Broadcast WAV quality. Six mic inputs provide phantom power and 60dB of gain for great-sounding recordings with your condenser microphones. Record the six microphones along with a digital S/PDIF source for 8 track recording. Each mic input has a selectable low cut filter and analog limiter for optimal sound. Inputs can be monitored using a built-in mixer with level and pan controls for each input. The stereo mixdown can even be recorded along with the six mics for quick stereo playback of the event. There's even a built-in speaker to check recordings without headphones. In addition to WAV recording up to 96kHz, the DR-680 captures stereo audio at 192kHz/24-bit for audiophile-quality masters. The DR-680 records up to four channels of MP3 audio for web-ready recordings. Two of the recorders can be connected with a cascade cable for up to 14-track recording on battery power.
