At 01:06 PM 4/23/02 -0400, you wrote:
>Jim Morgan wrote:
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>> At 10:47 AM 4/23/02 -0400, you wrote:
>> >Oops, try this link... http://www.hhbusa.com/000/pdrive.htm
>> >Wil
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>> Ah, much better. It does sound like it is portable. I hope they don't have
>> all the hassles that they had with the portadisc.
>
>And just what problems with the portadisc are you talking about?
A review of past postings might refresh your memory
Oh yes,
>records perfectly, never gives any problems, I forgot all about how mine
>works. Yep, definitely need more problems in my life. And this new one
>is almost certain to arrive with at least some bugs.
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>The new recorder looks to be quite heavy, I'd guess 2-3x the weight of
>the portadisc. Too bad they did not extend to end moldings into grab
>handles. I expect you would not want to be lugging this around on a
>strap for very long. It also looks to be about standard rack width. The
>battery pac looks like the one for my first beta portable video
>recorder. Well, except it appears to be Lion. Extra batteries are going
>to be expensive.
>
>I hope those considering this have 8 sets of quality mics to go with it.
>Using this to make the typical mono recordings would be overkill and a
>half. If it's supplying phantom power to all 8 that's going to add up to
>a significant drain on the battery. Lots of issues to portable recording
>like this. I'm not so sure just how "portable" it will work out.
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>I don't see anything that looks like a firewire port. That would be the
>most appropriate for this sort of thing. Reasonably fast and hot
>connectable and automatically would appear as a drive on the desktop (on
>a mac anyway, nearly as good in windows), allowing drag and drop
>copying. Looks like it might have a ethernet port. Maybe it's intended
>to sell you a separate drive cabinet for the removable HD. Even at 44k
>sampling rate this would be putting out 80megs/minute, and the modern
>trend is to go to higher rates. So transfer of the recordings is not trivial.
>
>I just got done putting 3 73 gig ultra 160 HD's in my G4. And that's for
>convenient 2 track work. I'd expect to have to put together a raid array
>to handle 8 track in the same style.
>
>Interesting anyway.
>
>Walt
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