the isssue is actually a little more complicated. as a
professional film sound recordist, i always wanted to
own a nagra spool recorder. now i can probably afford
to buy one, but the need has evaporatedf.
some time in the mid seventies, the tide started
turning. there were situations were my sony tcd5m
actually turned out better recordings than the rented
nagra i was using. it was easier to calibrate, was
(and still is very rugged) runs on the same D cells as
the nagra, and once i convinced the director, i could
get synch sound for half minute shots with it.
digital recording moved it even closer. if you take
out the preamplifiers, all dat recorders should be
giving you the same quality (it is written into the
specs), and i have used a tcd8 rather than a HHB or
one of the pro dats, taped down to my mixer (which has
always been pro quality, with transformer inputs, but
i had built it myself).
three years ago i bought myself a digidesign mbox and
been recording with used laptop computers. there are
problems, but once set up i get very high quality
results indeed. i will probably buy the m audio
microtracker because i have suspicion i will record
better audio than i would if chose one of the more
serious looking flash recorders in the 1000 dollar
class. (i would still like to buya nagra flash
recorder of course!)
umashankar
--- Derek Holzer <> wrote:
> Hi Anton,
>
> Anton Woldhek wrote:
> > Ps all Sonosax products are very expensive, I
> guess their products must be
> > worth it.
>
> I hate to take issue with you, but "price=3D=3Dquality"
> is a sticky line of
> thinking to fall into. Companies like Sonosax just
> pitch to a different
> market, and that market has much deeper pockets and
> likes to think that
> three figure prices keep the riff-raff out of their
> game.
>
> For example, look at the closing quality gap between
> expensive
> hardware/software packages like ProTools and free
> software solutions
> like Ardour. Or the price gap (without an equivalent
> increase in
> processing power or sometimes even the inverse)
> between an Intel
> computer and an Apple. Or, lastly, check out the
> Aaton Cantar--a truely
> beautiful piece of work which is more like a Swiss
> watch than a field
> recorder, and at $15K costs as much as a family car
> or the down payment
> on a house.
>
> Sort of reminds me of the $640 toilet seats and $250
> hammers that
> Lockheed bought from government contractors for the
> US Air Force back in
> the 80's ;-)
>
> d.
>
> --
> derek holzer ::: http://www.umatic.nl
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