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Re: SoundDevices frontend

Subject: Re: SoundDevices frontend
From: "David Michael" wildlifeanalysis
Date: Thu May 24, 2007 8:28 am ((PDT))
This reminds me. Does anyone on list know where I could get my hands
on a Sound Devices MP-2?

Cheers
David


On 5/24/07, geopaul7 <> wrote:
> --- In  "lightb4sound" <> wrot=
e:
> >
> >  A current idea is to get an excellent
> > preamp as a front end to either a new Hi-MD or something like FR2LE,
> > or even my current R-09. Currently thinking along the lines of the
> > SoundDevices Mixpre or the 302. This means that I would have a great
> > preamp section and could be more flexible in the future when newer
> > devices come out (which the will do as soon as I buy a recorder!) I
> > have learnt my lessons the hard way in the past and only want to
> > invest in quality gear.
> >
> > My question is....has anyone tried this? What are the results like?
>
>
> Neil:
>
> I currently do something like that.  I have a Sound Devices MP-2, which I
> put in front of a
> Sony portable DAT.  I am probably the only person on this list who still
> uses a DAT.
>
> I think the bottom line is that neither the pre-amp, nor the DAT, is the
> limiting factor in
> the system.  This is the mic.  I could probably go up to the top of the l=
ine
> in mics and still
> not see any limitation from an excellent pre-amp/ antique recording devic=
e
> system.
>
> I currently am planning on getting a Sound Devices 722, but may get new m=
ics
> first.
>
> I think what you are planning is basically sound, if you can put up with =
the
> other
> characteristics of the recording device, like in my case, the slow transf=
er
> of file from the
> tape, and the fact that tape is used at all.
>
> GP
>
>
>
> "While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
> sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>




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