This Aaton Cantar-X portable field recorder is so beautiful I don’t know what to say, exactly. I think I want it inside of me. The ruggedized recorder is built around a 120GB hard drive with an 10 to 15 hour battery life, 18 simultaneous inputs, water- and dust-proof linear sliders and rotary faders designed to be used even with gloves on. And then once you have all of that 24bit/96KHz audio recorded and mixed down, you can burn the tracks out to DVD with the built-in burner hidden behind the front door.
And don’t forget those gorgeous owl-eyed modulometer readouts—I don’t know what they’re for exactly, but who cares? I just want to take the $18,000 recorder into my tender embrace until my nerdy folds grow over it, like a tree hugging a barbed wire fence.
Product Page [Aaton via MusicThing]
