CR500 BWF Mastering Recorder - Reviews

A pro-quality mastering and playback machine at a project studio price? Keith Gemmell asks the burning questions...

Price: £399.00
Manufacturer: Fostex
Website: http://www.fostex.com

Not so long ago, owning a project studio was a relatively expensive business and almost entirely hardware-based, apart from MIDI sequencing software. Quality mixers and multitrack machines didn’t come cheap – and neither did the 2-track mastering machine, usually an analogue tape recorder, a DAT machine or CD recorder. These days, however, most project studios are DAW-based and bouncing tracks to stereo and burning CDs using computer optical drives is the norm. But not everybody owns a computer and there are plenty of musicians still using standalone multitrackers. For them, machines such as the Fostex CR500 – a new low-cost CD recorder with pro-quality features both as a master recorder and as a playback machine – make perfect sense.

Score: 9

This review first appeared in Music Tech Magazine issue 42
Filed under Hardware, Hardware DAWs

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