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Re: External preamp for Marantz PMD 661?

Subject: Re: External preamp for Marantz PMD 661?
From: "Mitch Hill" wa1ykn
Date: Sun Mar 17, 2013 5:42 pm ((PDT))
Bruce,
I use a PMD-661 with two SD 302 field mixers/preamps plus a MixPre for a
total of 8 individual microphone inputs...   Part of the success in this
setup is that the SD units sterio buss can be daisy chained together... =

Works great and while the PMD-661 is an excellent device and my favorite
recorder, using the Sound Devices units definitely makes an improvement
in my experience... I get more than enough gain for field work and I've
been running this detup for three years now and wouldn't change it for
anything...

Mitch...

On 3/17/2013 7:55 PM, Bruce Rideout wrote:
> I record birds with a Marantz PMD 661, Telinga parabola with Sennheiser
> ME62 mic, and a Sennheiser ME66. Despite having a great setup, there are
> still times when I can't get enough gain to get a good recording of birds
> making soft vocalizations. I'm wondering if an external preamp, such as a
> Sound Devices MP-1, would increase the clean gain in these situations, or
> whether my current setup is already as good as it's going to get.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bruce Rideout
>

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Mitch Hill

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