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Re: MKH20 and HHB Portadisc

Subject: Re: MKH20 and HHB Portadisc
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Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 13:18:44 EST
Can anyone give me an idea as to how much battery usage would increase if I 
connected an MKH20 directly to my Portadisc and used the phantom power rather 
than powering the microphone from its  MZA14 external power supply? Right now 
I can get about 3 hours +/- of continuous recording per battery pack. Would 
using the phantom power with the MKH20 decrease this 10, 15, 20 minutes?????

Much Thanks,

John


John V. Moore Nature Recordings



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>From   Tue Mar  8 18:23:14 2005
Message: 2
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 09:45:29 -0500
From: Lang Elliott <>
Subject: Re: Nagra V in the jungle

One other question, which I probably missed in all the exchanges:

I only see mention of the Orb drive on the Nagra site. So where does one go
to get a 20-40 gig removable hard drive installed?

Lang

Dear All

I have'nt taken mine to one yet, but have no hesitation in doing so.

Timecode is not on the standard machine

I have carried mine about on my shoulder over the fells of the Lake District
here in England, in the pouring rain, knocking it as you do and have had no
problems what so ever.

The pre-amps and A to D conversion are far superior to the Portadisc and
Portadat, I've owned a Portadat and borrowed the Portadisc for testing.
Sorry Walt and others but they are not a patch on the Nagra.

Having said all this, if I was not worried about compression, I would take a
Portadisc purely because of the ease of use with the AA batteries.  The
Nagra runs on either  D cells or a rechargeable Lithium.

The Lithium gives  about 6-7 hours and the D cells 4 to 5.

If you are just going to collect specie recordings and not soundscapes, take
the Portadisc, nobody will hear the difference.

Roger C Boughton

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