As I was telling you in the title, Deva is the name of an ancient city in Romania. I'm not really sure how this info will be useful to you in developing your audio enthusiast/engineer career, but I just know that the info on the other Deva - the Zaxcom Deva 5.8 will.

These days, Zaxcom has announced the imminent release of the next-generation hard disk recorders at the next week's 2007 NAB in Las Vegas. Building on the solid heritage of Deva IV and V, the new 5.8 version will sport internal DVD-RAM drive and Flash slot and will offer powerful recording, mixing and FX-ing capabilities all packed in one rather small-size and light solution.

The new version of the Deva recorder sports many new features which were not present in the previous series: EQ, notch filter, compression and delay on each channel,8 Phantom powered- mic/line inputs as well as FireWire connectivity for external devices.
The faders on the new Deva are rotary and this rather brings a contrasting "old tech" element when put near the large touchscreen, yet they ensure very fast an accurate control. The touchscreen lets the user administer a lot of features, including metadata entering without the need to use external/third-party hardware and both use and display functionalities are intuitive and have a very convenient learning curve for both newbies and advanced users.

Finally, if you think all the commands on the Deva 5.8 are a little bit awkward and you'd find operating this recorder rather as a difficult task, don't weep! Zaxcom has thought about people like you and has made the Deva 5.8 fully compliant with the previously-released Mix 12 control surface which will act like a very effective mixing console-surface (which you simply aren't allowed to misuse!).

Even more, you can actually connect a regular PS/2 keyboard and have your way with the new Deva... your way! Shipping from May 2007; we're still expecting for the pricing of the Zaxcom Deva 5.8.