The DMX8 is a digital recording device that connects to a host PC via USB 2.0, the DMX8 has 8 balanced inputs that can be either microphone or line level, and are mixed down to 2 or 4 channels and digitized. The mixing is completely flexible, allowing any selection of inputs to be routed to any record channel. The digitized audio is sent to the host PC via a USB connection for recording on the host PC’s hard drive. A software driver is provided that makes the DMX8 appear as a standard Microsoft Wav device. The DMX8 is designed for voice applications and incorporates a dynamic range compressor/noise gate on each input. The dynamic range compressor/noise gate makes the recording process more forgiving of varying loudness levels of different people’s voices.