Thanks for doing this... Great review! I am SO pleased that you did not choose to add a background bed of chill beats to these demo snippets. Surprisingly difficult to find these days!

I particularly liked that the outdoor recording was done with the included mics. Which appear to be very good 😀

I just got this last week and updated the firmware. The startup time is 5 seconds.

You know your stuff! Thanks for so many quit moments and outside sounds. Most KZfaq guys " testing" recorders or microphones take a guitar and play a little, hope to get famous in some of them

Thank you for this review, very informative.

Great demo and great sound ambiances, thanks !

Can I record a guitar track on one channel. Then play that track and record bass on track two as guitar one track is playing?

Can this recorder receive multi tracks or a main mix from a mixboard?! Can’t find that answer anywhere… seriously need some help here.

It sounds great ! I wanted X8 for recording jams and ideas but decided to get the Tascam dp32 portastudio. Big great machines but I figured for the same price as the X8 i can get the dp32 portastudio and use it for every single thing X8 can do plus way more !

Is it manual the only one you can do six tracks on? That’s the one for songwriters correct you can’t do that on Music

@JRESHOW Have you been able to compare this directly to the Zoom H6 in regards to Signal-To-Noise ratio and how "clean" the mic preamps are?

Does this have send return features So one can connect a guitar pedal , And record the performance ? Thanks

Given all the remarkable facilities of this recorder, does it offer any support for M/S recording? Of course it will happily record a mid mic and a side mic, but can it decode the M/S to normal stereo for monitoring or playback? M/S mics are quite often used in video making and so I'd hope that appropriate monitoring was provided. It would be very simple to do. Anyway, very clear review and I loved the canada geese sound samples! [Early reviews mentioned very poor RF shielding - apparently Tascam have said this was only on early models, which is tough on early purchasers... did you encounter any problems with that?]

NONE of these handheld recorders are made to be dropped or treated roughly. To protect them from accidental abuse, the build costs would be much higher, and it would probably double the cost.

Thank you!

Well done, i've enjoyed the whole vid, as a german i like the efficiency in it ;) helps me a lot for my choice. u r still happy with the x8? Greetings.

You are not the first to say that you can remove the XY microphones. But the first to say that you then have 2x 3.5 mm inputs for a lavenier. In my case with an interview I would give 1 lavenier to the speaker and leave the Y-mic and aim at the speaker as an additional option. What I can't find anything about, not even in the manual, is that there is also a line-in 3.5mm stereo input. But nowhere is it mentioned on which track that is recorded. Is that instead of 2 XLR tracks or instead of the XY tracks?

I got it recently, however I can’t use it as a USB audio interface, cannot monitor sound from my laptop, anyone have the same problem?😢

Before I comment I realized I commented last year. 🙂But thank you very much for sharing. Now, how do I attached the device to iPhone 15 Pro Max? 🙏🏼

Pretty crazy they fit the “metrodome” in the presets 😜

Hello, Great Video. I am having trouble connecting my Tascam Portacapture x8 to Gopro Hero12. How do you connect them? What cables do I need?

Everyone talks about how crappy the build is on the included mics. But then some people say they sound "good." What do you think about that. I'm thinking those trs inputs would be great for Clippys or HearSight mics for field recording. Have you done any testing with alternatives that way?

Hello, I have a question, can you play a master track, for example a guitar, and add more tracks, a drums, a bass? performance like portable multi-track recorders. For example, if you want to record a drum set but you need the guitar track to play the drum set, regards

Great review thank you

Hi, thanks for the video. Very helpful I have just one question. How did you separate the channels of the upper microphone? 1-2. For me it appears as one wide band Thanks

Hello, I just bought the Portacapture x8. The user manual indicates the maximum card capacity would be only 512 GB. I need more (512 BG can be too limited with 32-bit recording). Have you checked if it is possible to use 1TB or 1.5TB microSDcards (Lexar, SanDisk...) ?

Merhaba harika bir video olmuş teşekkür ederim hakkım olmayarak bur soru sormak istiyorum Acaba nasıl bir camera almam gerek x8 e bağlamak için siz hangisini kullaniyorsunuz cevabınız için şimdiden teşekkür ederim

If I'm using the task can recorder and I get audio that is just bad there still is no way to fix it lol just clipping right

Have you got the latest firmware? My X8 is almost instant

Sorry for a maybe stupid question but could I use this device on my mac (via USB-C) as an external recorder/ microphone for e.g. conference call? Would be nice if that is possible, in that case I could use the recorder for that as well besides my bird and podcast recordings.

Thanks! Subbed.

I picked one up recently and I enjoy how versatile it is.

What camera are you using?

What windscreen did you use with it?

can you send me a link to the wind screen you used?

I use this to record the audio on all porno films I make, and since my films are very story forward, picking up the dialogue is very important. 10/10

are there any 32bit float audio online that are downloadable?

Are you an android?

Plastic garbage. One cannot have a decent handheld recorder these days because brands think a flashy smartphone like touchscreen is more important than durability. Ridiculous.