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Zoom Zoom Zoom
When we began carrying the Samson Zoom H4 nearly 2 years ago, it was one of an emerging style of recorders. Today nearly everywhere you look from consumer audio, to camera companies, to professional audio has a small format mp3/wave recorder with built in stereo mics. The market is flooded. In our industry, timecode transcription […]
READ MORESound Devices CL-8 Demystified
When Sound Devices released information on the CL-8, the most common question customers asked was “How?” “How does it add recording tracks?” “How do you route to the new auxes and where do they output?” Sadly, my answers were usually, “I’m not sure, but Sound Devices rarely disappoints.” Now that I’ve had a CL-8 to play with I […]
READ MOREChoose your own adventure.
One of the most common tasks we have, both sales and rental, is helping our customers select the product that best suits their needs. In an effort of streamline the situation I’ve come up with the following flow chart. I am the first to admit, numerous features lead a person to their ideal recorder. However, […]
READ MORESAY HELLO TO THE 788T!
As I am writing this, I know about a new recorder and you don’t. It’s always nice for dealers to find out before customers, even if it’s just 24 hours. However tomorrow when I post it, EVERYONE will know. Sound Devices has announced the 788T. Preliminary information states Sound Devices will begin shipping in mid […]
READ MOREAre we there yet?
By now you may know that Apple’s newest laptop, the MacBook Air, does not use a traditional hard drive, but solid state flash memory. USB memory drives, compact flash, Secure Digital (SD), SD mini, SD micro, and Memory stick are a mixture of brand names, buzz words, and nicknames, but they all use flash memory […]
READ MOREBullets of info
I’ve had numerous Audioflow topics running through my head, but none were extensive enough for an entire blog. So let me shoot through some bullet points. The strike has come to an end, and we’re all glad to hear it. I’m not going to discuss the politics of the situation, just that a resolution is […]
READ MOREDeva II and Nagra V
Ready or not, tape is nearly history. Tape is well on its way to being a novelty. Granted, even analog tape is still being used on some film productions, being as reliable as it ever was and sounding as good as it ever did, but it is more and more accepting the realization of the […]
READ MOREThe Venerable Fostex PD-4 Timecode DAT Recorder
In the world of portable timecode DAT recorders (OK, the very small world), there was first the Fostex PD-2. This was soon followed by the StellaDAT which was soon followed by the HHB Portadat which was fairly soon followed by this article’s hero, the Fostex PD-4. To be fair, I must first voice my opinion […]
READ MORENagra Wear
People in business have to be conscious of changing trends and adapt to them. Location sound mixers are certainly no exception, and in this case we have to be aware of the effects trends have on our equipment. While Music Videos can no longer be considered a new trend, it hasn’t been until recently that […]
READ MOREThe StellaDAT II 4-track Portable DAT Recorder
(Originally published in Audio Media Magazine USA) Two oxymorons: Jumbo Shrimp. Perfect DAT. Well, oxymorons or not, I love jumbo shrimp and the Stelladat II is the closest thing to a perfect DAT recorder that we may ever see. The Stelladat II is the new evolution of the original Stelladat (now known as the Stelladat-I), […]
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