The long-awaited Nomad from Zaxcom
After months of speculation about this product, Glenn Sanders demonstrates the very sophisticated Zaxcom Nomad Production Sound System and how it is more than just a field mixer/recorder.
Video Overview
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Details of Outputs
Glenn Sanders describes the output ports of the new Zaxcom Nomad.
I sure would appreciate it if I were able to view on my iPad.
How can you post such a bad sound on a professionnal website ?
Touche’ Luc…
Come on Trew…Use Coffey Sound Videos from NAB as your baseline for next year.
BTW…I do not work for Coffey Sound…just a sound consumer.
So, it’s a very versatile system without the ability to pan left and right (the industry standard for Reality TV)…. I dunno, I would certainly like to have that option.
TK, traditional left/right pan pots are not found on the Nomad simply because the Nomad will allow you to route any of your inputs to any of the six output buses. In short, this gives you the ability to put an input anywhere you need it vs. simply a main left or right output.
This is a super fexible tool. It answers my secret wish list. I came to location sound from multitrack and large consoles. This looks like there’s a way to almost anything and when you consider that it’s a recorder/mixer the cost is… um, cheap.
The “display slate” is extremely cool. Useful for docus instead of a bloop slate. Congratulations Zaxcom!
IMHO, once again, the front panel graphics/design are horrendous though, I thought Z would improve this aspect this time, but they keep doing everything by themselves, which is great but has this sort of shortcomings 🙂
I’d like greater than 30 dB of gain on the mic inputs, I also hoped they improved this spec.
The BNC connectors for the timecode… if I ever get one, I’d change them to 1/4 immediately, I’m allergic to BNC 😛
I also hoped for at least 96 kHz or even 192 kHz, for FX, at least two tracks at high sample rate…
(more..) Obv., 96 or 192 kHz sr would be adequate for music recordings and other duties, not just FX for film.
Outputs: I miss an Hirose 10 pin connector as it’s the standard camera link connector. So I’d have instead 1 Hirose-10-pin + 2 XLR3m, instead of the four XLR3m