Sound Devices 888
Portable mixer-recorder
Recorder$9,200Manufacturer list price
Specifications
- Type
- Recorder
- Description
- Portable mixer-recorder
- Signal path
- Digital (recallable / digitally controlled)
- Channels
- 8
- Channel format
- 8x XLR mic/line inputs, up to 16 tracks of external sources + 4 buses at up to 192 kHz
- Form factor
- Handheld/portable, bag-mountable
- Connection
- USB-C, SD card, Dante
- Sample rate (kHz)
- 44.1-192
- Bit depth
- 16-32-bit float
- DSP
- true
- Introduced
- 2019
- Country of manufacture
- USA
- Phantom power
- 48V
Details
Controls: Touchscreen, physical faders/knobs, fully routable via multiple FPGAs (any input to any track/bus/output)
I/O: 8x XLR mic/line inputs, Dante networked audio in/out, 2x SD card slots, internal 256GB SSD, USB-C, TA3 timecode I/O
Notable use: Used for larger-cast production sound and mobile-cart mixing on film/TV productions
Notes: FLAG: recorder that is also a USB audio interface (2-in/2-out class-compliant USB-C, plus 16-ch in/out via Dante). Smallest portable mixer-recorder on the market with Dante per manufacturer claim. Price $9,200 is Sweetwater street price (July 2026); a used Reverb listing showed $8,600 which was excluded as not representative of new/current pricing.