The 688 is a production sound engineer’s dream come true. It is a 12-input field production mixer with a fully integrated 16-track recorder, MixAssist™ auto-mixing functionality, and PowerSafe™ technology. The 688 takes the finest aspects of the acclaimed 633, 664, and 788T and creatively combines them with new technology into an unrivaled production audio tool. The 688 has six high-bandwidth mic/line inputs on XLR connectors, each complete with phantom power, high-pass filter, analog input limiter and variable pan. Six additional line-level inputs on TA3 connectors offer flexibility for more complex productions. All inputs are assignable, pre- or post-fade to its eight output buses, left/right plus Aux 1-6. The 688 can send its main left/right mix to three cameras simultaneously via transformer-balanced XLR and Hirose outputs. And the 688 offers 16-track, polyphonic or monophonic broadcast WAV file recording to SD and CompactFlash cards, which can be set independently, recording either identical material for real-time backup, or combinations of WAV and MP3 files.