The 660 (I bought one) is yet another gateway device... not really ready for
prime time... Buy the recorder... buy some memory...(it IS picky) worry
about the mic preamps... Run an mp2??? Get Oade to mod the frontend??? (only
if you buy it from him in the first place)
oh dear... The 722 is the real deal from what I've seen. Do you see much
gear from Sound Devices that is bad? Slut ran a matrix of a Radiators Show
last weekend on a 744 and I fell in love. If I had all the money I've spent
trying to do it on the cheap... I could have bought better gear from the
getgo. (Didn't sombody just say that?)
OK the PMD-660 is not awful... Its small and has meters and a long battery
life... Little things like a pre-record buffer... and there is no problem
getting the data off so you can see/edit it. Let me play for a bit and I'll
tell everybody what I think.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Feldman
Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 11:44 AM
To:
Subject: Re: [Nature Recordists] 722 Sound Devices
Brian Dasilva wrote:
> so the 744 is double WOW... and very fun to watch...
I think the 744 is only 1.75 WOW since it doesn't have
mic preamps for channles 3 & 4. But if timecode is
important to you then that could bring it back up to 2*WOW.
So rather than ditching the Edirol R-1 and getting a Marantz 660,
I'm tempted to ditch the Alesis Masterlink + RNP + road case +
AC power strip + extension cord and get a 722... and a lot
less of other stuff.
-- Mike
"Microphones are not ears,
Loudspeakers are not birds,
A listening room is not nature."
Klas Strandberg
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