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Date: Wed Sep 11, 2019 4:34 am ((PDT))
Hi Borja,
Good point about radio interference.I'm often caught out by electric fences
and overhead wires, not to mention the mobile signal in my pocket.
Martin
On Wed 11 Sep 2019, 11:16 a.m. Borja Marcos
[naturerecordists] < wrote:
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> > On 11 Sep 2019, at 12:03, ROSS HALE
> [naturerecordists] <> wrote:
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> > Hi Martin,
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> > Not answering your question at all I know.... but have you considered
> the MixerFace R4r? It ticks a lot of boxes.
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> As far as I know the best preamps in that price range are the Sound
> Devices MixPre=E2=80=99s and the Zoom F4 and F8. You have excellent
> input noise performance and high gain. You also have limiters and more
> flexible high pass filters.
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> Sound Devices is famous also for having some of the best headphone
> amplifiers in industry, which is very good. I also do know
> that the MixPre is extremely resistant to radio frequency interference
> while I have read mixed reports about the Zoom F8. Someone
> complained about problems with a digital radio mic receiver close to a
> Zoom F8. These digital =E2=80=9Creceivers=E2=80=9D actually transmit as w=
ell.
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> I tried to cause trouble transmitting with a 5 W VHF walkie talkie while
> it was connected to a Rode NTG-8 and the MIxPre 3 really
> resisted it.
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> Some people prefer the sound of the MixPres and I have read clamis about
> the distortion performance of the Zooms stating
> that the MixPres are better. But probably you won=E2=80=99t hit that in m=
ost cases.
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> I own a MixPre 3 myself and I am really happy with it. They have released
> updated models now.
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> One of the advantages of Sound Devices is excellent technical support and
> as far as I know long term product support.
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> A downside of the MixPres is, they seem to be more sensitive than others
> to misbehaving SD cards. But I guess the new
> MixPre Series II with a more powerful SOC has more memory and CPU power
> available for retries, etc. So it should be
> better.
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> I don=E2=80=99t own a Zoom and I haven=E2=80=99t tested them. But I went =
for the MixPre
> and I am happy with it. I forgot: the screen in the
> MixPre 3 is much better than the Zoom F4.
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> Borja.
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