The Zoom F8 is an eight-channel recorder/mixer with four XLR / ¼” connectors, dual SD card readers and, more interestingly, an internal timecode generator.
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Zoom are being a little cagey about specs beyond that but you’ll be able to attach any of their proprietary capsules you may have bought for use with previous recorders. They are also promising to make the file structure and menu system used by the unit more user-friendly (an area where there has definitely been room for improvement in previous Zoom recorders).
Mini XLR and headphone outputs round off the package – Zoom will have more information in the summer and hope to be shipping at the end of 2015 for a ‘very affordable’ price.
