I just reads a review of the Sound Devices USBPre (two channle mic
preamp with 24-bit digital output) in a back issue of Recording
Magazine (Nov.2002) and think it may be ideal for me in the sense
that it has some nice specs and has digital output (so I can plug
directly into my Marantz CDR300 hard disk recorder). Problem is
that the USBPre is powered via the USB port of a computer.
So...does anyone know of a way to adapt USB-powered devices to
another form of external battery power (I don't own a laptop nor do
I care to use one for field recording). At around $550 for the
USBPre, it's less than 50% of any other two-channel digital-output
portable preamp that I know of (I'm thinking here of the Apogee
MiniMe and the Lunatec V3). Here's a link to the USBPre for those
who are interested: http://www.1esa.com/USBpre.htm
thanks
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