Zaxcom today announced that the Deva Mix-8 eight-fader mixing control panel will begin shipping to customers worldwide in October 2008. The Deva Mix-8 integrates directly with the company's Emmy® Award-winning Deva and high-resolution Fusion audio recording systems to provide a more compact, mobile, and precise control panel for audio mixing.

• True digital mixing console
• 3-band shelving EQ with 2 notch filters and high pass per channel
• Soft knee compressor with makeup gain
• All cross points are cross faded (never any clicks or pops)
• Zero time offset design for no phase distortion channel to channel
• No audio cabling from mixer to recorder
• Floating point DSP (no internal clipping or quantization issues)
• Unlimited routing
• Penny & Gilles faders
• No sample rate issues between mixer and recorder
• Integrated Deva record & stop buttons
• QWERTY keyboard for metadata input
• Cross points can be pre or post fader with phase inversion