Comments on: Elsewhere: Korg ZERO8 Mixer Video Review

By: Christian K.

Christian K. — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:58:26 +0000

Picked up a Zero 4. This hiss is very easily audible on my Adam A7 self-powered monitors when:
1) A7’s turned up to -8dB (about 75%) power.
2) All volume faders, all gains, all FX, absolutely everything is turn down all the way to zero on the mixer.
3) Nothing is plugged into the Zero 4 except the power cord, and the 2 XLR master outputs. Hiss also occurs when using 1/4″ booth outputs.

Korg continues to adapt the philosophy that running your mixer at the hottest levels possible, and your monitors at the lowest levels possible, is the solution to this hiss problem. While that is a solution, I don’t feel it is an acceptable one for a mixer costing this much. Not to mention when you gig out you don’t always have this option.

I am going to attempt to get the repair fix, as I have an authorized service center in my city.

By: jean-anton

jean-anton — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:29:00 +0000

been using the zero8 for a year and never had a problem with the hiss, had it plugged via the guitat type plugs into a surround sound type amp, worked sweet, just got some new amped monitors and plugged it in via xlr and the hiss is there… generally working with it for a year i think they have over complicated it, would have been nice to controll the effects in ableton and it auto route the indavidual channels to individual channels… also recording audio into the daw is not that great, be prepaired for a big learning curve

By: Dave S

Dave S — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:51:45 +0000

Would there be a hissing noise if I used this mixer without the firewire card? Meaning I would use my Native Instruments Audio 8 sound card to control my time coded vinyl.

I know it sound pointless to use this mixer w/o using the firewire card, but it seems to offer a lot more.

By: Glenn Frantz

Glenn Frantz — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 20:59:26 +0000

how to assign the cue headphone using ableton!!!! or how to find the 3/4 output on ableton

thanks

Glenn

By: Ayhan

Ayhan — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:30:57 +0000

Now iÂ´ve have got news from korg via the general agent em nordic. Korg says everything is in order to the specifations. Have the listen to the damged mixers.They offer a kit that makes the digital master output to an analog output then the hiss disapears. But there wasnÂ´t any thing wrong. Korg sell this kit to you. Korg really donÂ´t care about the consumers. I really the mixer but korg.
they closed donwn the krogforums.com aswell.
My reatiler as been a good help, he will pay everything but em nordic and korg…

By: Ayhan

Ayhan — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:01:53 +0000

Hi iÂ´ve bought the korg zero 8 some months back and i really like what you can do with the mixer.
But there are some built in problems.
First is the Hiss problem
Second is the low output from the headphone jack
Third it that i can be some digital disturbence when you use ableton live and other applications at the same time.

My zero 8 has been in for serivce for 2 months
at the general agent in sweden. The discorvered the hiss problem and the low output. But could check the software issuse with ableton because their bosses wonÂ´t give them the software.

They have been telling me for awhile that it will come a fix, a hardware one. But still after 2 months they havenÂ´t fix anything. When i ask why korg woundÂ´t give an answer the agency say that is complicate and he canÂ´t tell my how it works with their communications.

By: Quirk Street

Quirk Street — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:42:29 +0000

Is this the same SPlurt from korgforums?
At the start of the threads you seemed pretty fired up – I’m on the verge of buying this mixer, which appears to be a great piece of kit – should I go ahead and buy now?

By: splurt

splurt — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:21:29 +0000

well, as far as the hiss goes, if you lower your monitors to 25% and run the mixer really hot, (its meant to be run that way) , its not really audible..

i like it for messing with lives tracks in the audio realm…, i like the control faders,

the hiss will be resolved.. its hardly an issue if you run it hot

By: Nikit@

Nikit@ — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:19:21 +0000

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By: detroiter

detroiter — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:25:52 +0000

I was gearing up to buy a NAMM floor model of the Zero8 when I found out about the hissing issue. I backpedaled even faster when I caught wind of the Vestax VCM-600. Also a Live user, I found the Zero8 is definitely overkill as compared to the VCM-600.