Has anyone had any experience with Zaxcom recorders? I'm looking at a
Zaxcom Maxx. It looks like their version of an SD 744T. How do the preamps
compare?
Thanks,
Kevin Durr
On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 11:32 AM, [naturerecordists] =
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> I had the Sound Devices 744T and it was a very dated design that depended
> on an internal hard drive for recording and backups to a CF card slot.
> Sound Devices has excellent analog electronics but they move at a glacial
> pace to update their models. I replaced the 744T with the SD 633 that
> combines a mixer with the recorder together and is no larger in size than
> the 744T and much more advanced internally.
>
> In addition to the pre-amp quality the quality of the headphone amp for
> monitoring also varies greatly between recorders and for low level nature
> recordings this was an important aspect of my purchase decision.
>
> Some older recorders like the Sound Devices 744T have had limitations wit=
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> their use of FAT32 for the file system and this limits the file size and
> hence the duration of recordings.
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