Live Recording Mixer - Fostex LR16 & Korg D888

[Ozpeter]

A colleague has drawn this interesting device to my attention - see Fostex Press Releases - Broadcast, Film and Pro Audio for details.

Looks a bit like a Korg D888 on steroids.

Speaking of the D888 I have just done some comparisons of its mic preamps (noise in particular) vs the Edirol R-44, and my conclusion is that its performance in my simple test was perfectly creditable. Not bad at the price for an 8-mic-input location recorder. See D888 preamp tests indicate fine performance - StudioTrax Forums for details.

[pkautzsch]

Anyone got practical experience with that Fostex beast?
(asked that question in the New Products too, but I guess the chance of replies is higher here).

http://www.gearslutz.com/board/new-p...stex-lr16.html

Sound: good enough for classical?
Noise: does it have a fan in the "stagebox" unit?
Cat.5 cable length: they state 50mtr. will work. But how about longer runs, say when recording in a van outside the venue? Will it work with cat.5 extenders/repeaters?

[JP__]

Originally Posted by pkautzsch

Anyone got practical experience with that Fostex beast?
Sound: good enough for classical?
Noise: does it have a fan in the "stagebox" unit?

Haven´t got practical experiences, and the only things I can tell you are: no fan, but a noisy HD. Techn. specs are ok.
If you get further infos please contact me in our forum. Thanks.

Gruß
Jan

[jjb]

Well, it's less ugly when they two pieces are split apart! (See the pdf for more pics)

The 80gig drive strikes me as rather small if you're recording 16 tracks and a mix at 24/48.

Any word on a price?

[Ozpeter]

Google for fostex lr16 price and you'll get plenty of hits - eg Buy Fostex LR16 Live Recording Mixer | Multitrack Recorders | Unpowered Mixers | Digital Mixers | Musician's Friend $1999.00 - depends of course which country you are in.

[pkautzsch]

Originally Posted by jjb

Well, it's less ugly when they two pieces are split apart! (See the pdf for more pics)

The 80gig drive strikes me as rather small if you're recording 16 tracks and a mix at 24/48.

Any word on a price?

Well, doesn't exactly need to look nice. Price is around EUR 1,400+vat here.
80 gigs are about 10 hrs of recording all (16+2) channels. Way enough for live recording, and even for sessions when you copy the data to an external drive each evening. Most of my live recordings are around 20 gig.

Now it would be really nice if one could sync two machines...

[9sbean]

Originally Posted by pkautzsch

Anyone got practical experience with that Fostex beast?
(asked that question in the New Products too, but I guess the chance of replies is higher here).

http://www.gearslutz.com/board/new-p...stex-lr16.html

Sound: good enough for classical?
Noise: does it have a fan in the "stagebox" unit?
Cat.5 cable length: they state 50mtr. will work. But how about longer runs, say when recording in a van outside the venue? Will it work with cat.5 extenders/repeaters?

Any latest update? Wondering this could be a good choose for some of my application.

[Soundhunter]

I've recently taken delivery of the Fostex LR16, one for the conference centre I work for and one for my own use recording orchestra's, theatre organs, jazz etc and the Fostex is a great bit of kit, well please with them.

Steve
Canbury Sound

[radar166]

I hope it is the type of unit I was looking for. I ordered the LR16 from Musician's Friend in March. It should be here around June 20. Hopefully my new studio will be finished by then. I like the Fostex brand. It really doesn't take a huge learning curve to get it going. I used the VF-16 for 10 years and it served me well.
I just like the idea of 16 tracks. I have 16 wall inputs, a solo booth and drum booth. We'll see.......