
The front panel features an LCD screen that is packed with information as well as controls for Stop, Play/Pause, Record, Menu, Forward and Backward among others as well as a jog wheel for quickly navigating through its options.

The front panel features an LCD screen that is packed with information as well as controls for Stop, Play/Pause, Record, Menu, Forward and Backward among others as well as a jog wheel for quickly navigating through its options.

The DP-008 really lives up to its name in a way that its tape-based predecessors couldn’t: it’s really portable (instead of relatively easily movable like my old 4-track), and it packs a lot of the features of an actual studio — and of course it records to CD quality, which is a lot better than recording song sketches onto your mobile phone.