Category: Recorders

The Nagra VI, One Year Later

The Nagra VI, One Year Later… “Under-promise, over-deliver”. When this philosophy is behind a product, the customers who use it are well served. It is the sign of a confident and mature company, a hallmark of Nagra, and it is apparent in the continuing history of the Nagra VI. Possibly the best thing about the […]

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An Evening with the Deva

One way I keep my hands and ears in sound mixing for film and video production is to fill in for Trew Audio customers who, for one reason or another, need someone to fill in for them. So, when Kevin Smith’s usual sound mixer, Atlanta-based Whit Norris, found himself booked in San Juan, Puerto Rico […]

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Hands on the Tascam HS-P82

Nearly a month ago, we introduced Tascam’s new line of recorders. Now that we’ve received our first HS-P82, it is clear Tascam had a specific user in mind–those with smaller budgets, but high quality tastes. The touchscreen interface, dedicated knobs/switches, and natural controls layout lead users through a quick learning curve regardless of their level […]

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Welcome Back, Tascam

For music industry based audio companies, the film/television audio production world is a blip on their financial radar. For years specialty manufacturers, such as Zaxcom and Sound Devices have served us, and served us well. Cross-over companies, such as Fostex, Marantz, and Tascam seem to ebb and flow with product changes. Fostex has had the […]

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Sound Devices 552

  On September 8th, Sound Devices rocked our world with their latest product release: the 552 Mixer/Recorder. Evolving from the esteemed 442 mixer, the 552 has 5 mic/line inputs, all with pre or post fader direct outputs, plus two other very notable additions: a built-in stereo recorder, and four channels of AES outputs. The two […]

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Deva External Slate Mic Modification

Trew Audio is now offering a modification to the Deva recorder models 4, 5, 5.8, 16, and Fusion. This mod adds an external slate/com mic input and a headphone jack to the left side. The mod is structurally non-invasive, as only existing panel holes are used, and the mod is easily reversible to the original […]

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Let’s go to the hop, (oh baby)

I get asked more and more every day about camera hops –what’s available and what’s coming. It seems as though we have run around the circle in audio from double system Nagra to recording direct to camera and now back to double system on hard disk recorders (and with a lot more channels).  It still […]

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Nagra’s new products at NAB 2009

John Owens of Nagra describes updates to the Nagra VI and debuts the LB 2-channel digital audio recorder.

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