Become a Site Supporter and Never see Ads again!

Author Topic: Marantz PMD 671 announced (on Oade)  (Read 88422 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline John Kelly

  • Been a while...
  • Trade Count: (1)
  • Needs to get out more...
  • *****
  • Posts: 9753
  • Gender: Male
    • The Jokell
Re: Marantz PMD 671 announced (on Oade)
« Reply #105 on: April 11, 2005, 09:46:52 AM »
Don't know if you're joking or not, but it wont work. Besides, the whole point is to get away from hard discs. ;)

dont have to get away from hard discs if they dont have any problems....my opinion, they will be equal to, if not more reliable than anything else we have dealt with in the field to this point (tapes, etc)

To this point, I agree.  Hell I'm using a hard disc now. ;)  But solid state recorders have tons of advantages over hard discs, the only problem right now is price.  However in the future that will change...
Sennheiser MKH8040st > SD 702
XBL/PSN/Steam ID: thejokell

Offline esteyes

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Taperssection Regular
  • **
  • Posts: 217
  • Gender: Male
Re: Marantz PMD 671 announced (on Oade)
« Reply #106 on: April 16, 2005, 05:16:18 PM »
well it is 2pm here on saturday and FredEx just handed me my 671  :D  it came with a 64meg CF card.  i will play with it the rest of today. if anybody has any questions i can answer, send'em on and i''ll ipost answers.

neil
Neil Sturtevant
San Marcos, CA
AKG 451's + CK1/CK8/CK9
AKG 460's + CK61/CK63 or A60M + CK1/CK8/CK9  or MK46/CK1X/CK8X
Sennheiser K3U + MKE-2, ME20, ME40, ME80, ME88
Sennheiser MKH 110/2 x2 + MKH 110/1 powered via custom battbox
Busman BSC1-K1/K2/K3/K4
Shure FP33 or Sony DMX P01
Korg MR1000 or Sony M1
stealth: M1 > MKE-2/ME 20/ME40 in the hat
all cabling LINK (made in Germany) balanced or balanced miniature w/ Neutrik ends

making custom cables and serviceable (non-epoxy) ultraflush right angle cables plus other custom projects

Offline johnw

  • Trade Count: (11)
  • Needs to get out more...
  • *****
  • Posts: 3818
  • Gender: Male
    • My cd List
Re: Marantz PMD 671 announced (on Oade)
« Reply #107 on: April 16, 2005, 08:53:28 PM »
well it is 2pm here on saturday and FredEx just handed me my 671  :D  it came with a 64meg CF card.  i will play with it the rest of today. if anybody has any questions i can answer, send'em on and i''ll ipost answers.

neil

Will it record 24/96 via digi in? Also if you are up for determining whether it re-samples that would be nice. What cards are you going to run? If you are using the micro drives, how well do they work? Have fun with the new toy. +T
Schoeps MK41 & MK4V  |  Schoeps CMC6, Schoeps KCY, AKI/2C, PFA, Nbox Cable/PFA  |  Grace V2, Nbox Platinum  |  SD744T, SD MixPre 6, Sony PCM M10

Canon 16-35mm/2.8L mkii, 24-70mm/2.8L, 70-200mm/2.8L IS, 50mm/1.8 mkii, 135mm/2L, 100mm/2.8L IS, Sigma 35mm/1.4 A  |  Canon 5D mk4

Offline esteyes

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Taperssection Regular
  • **
  • Posts: 217
  • Gender: Male
Re: Marantz PMD 671 announced (on Oade)
« Reply #108 on: April 16, 2005, 09:46:29 PM »
according to the manual it will do 24/96 digi in.

not sure how to go about determining if it resamples here at home. if i still worked at DEI i could put it on the APsystem2.

gonna have to get up to speed for converting 24/48 to 16/44.1. also gonna have to look into SQ of 24/44.1....

per my older post, i am getting one of the Lexar 4G cards as recommended by D&M tech support. using a Hitachi 4g micro right now - the unit has a built in test for transfer rate (CF Card Check) - they rate the ness xfer speed for 24/96 at 4680 kbps, the Hitachi showed >8000 kbps and the included flash card (64mb) tested at 6684 kbps.

it is nice to find that you can create 3 recording profiles and then save them to be accessed instantly - like you decided you were running out of storage and you could just stop the deckand within 4 secs be in a different profile with a diff sampling rate using less storage - like going to 32kLP on a dat to squish in the encore...

thanx for all the new toy best wishes.
neil
Neil Sturtevant
San Marcos, CA
AKG 451's + CK1/CK8/CK9
AKG 460's + CK61/CK63 or A60M + CK1/CK8/CK9  or MK46/CK1X/CK8X
Sennheiser K3U + MKE-2, ME20, ME40, ME80, ME88
Sennheiser MKH 110/2 x2 + MKH 110/1 powered via custom battbox
Busman BSC1-K1/K2/K3/K4
Shure FP33 or Sony DMX P01
Korg MR1000 or Sony M1
stealth: M1 > MKE-2/ME 20/ME40 in the hat
all cabling LINK (made in Germany) balanced or balanced miniature w/ Neutrik ends

making custom cables and serviceable (non-epoxy) ultraflush right angle cables plus other custom projects

Offline Govt Mule

  • Trade Count: (2)
  • Taperssection Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 946
  • Gender: Male
Re: Marantz PMD 671 announced (on Oade)
« Reply #109 on: April 24, 2005, 10:51:06 PM »
I ran an opeing set saturday on mine straight in, (no v3). Major brick wall.

So much for that test.

Anyone run 24 bit without problems yet?
Water tastes funny when you're far from your home, But it's only the thirsty that hunger to roam.- John Prine

Offline d5

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Taperssection Regular
  • **
  • Posts: 185
  • Gender: Male
Re: Marantz PMD 671 announced (on Oade)
« Reply #110 on: April 25, 2005, 11:30:44 AM »
I ran an opeing set saturday on mine straight in, (no v3). Major brick wall.

Was this a stock 671 without anything done to the pre?
JW mod AKG 460/ck61's > Sound Devices 702

Offline Govt Mule

  • Trade Count: (2)
  • Taperssection Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 946
  • Gender: Male
Re: Marantz PMD 671 announced (on Oade)
« Reply #111 on: April 25, 2005, 12:18:08 PM »
Yep straight stock.
Water tastes funny when you're far from your home, But it's only the thirsty that hunger to roam.- John Prine

Offline esteyes

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Taperssection Regular
  • **
  • Posts: 217
  • Gender: Male
Re: Marantz PMD 671 announced (on Oade)
« Reply #112 on: April 28, 2005, 03:00:24 PM »
well i took my 671 to Dickey Betts at the Coach house last sunday. testing at home showed 5 hours of playback with a 4G microdrive and the display off, 3.5 with the display on - i am using 2400mah nimh's. the numbers were way short of what marantz claims in the manual. anyway, i figured to be safe at dickey - OOOPS. deck ran out of battery at the 2.5 hr mark and i was downstairs grabbing a brew. it was in my bag where my testing was on the table - you wouldn't think it would matter but repeated testing at home showed the same kind of performance... got a 4G CF card and that runs 8hrs+ with the display on before the battery quits - that is more like it!

i also have this skip in one section of the show during playback... the time counts out fine, but it is like in the old days when a record skipped... thinking this is related to using a microdrive. the microdrive tested well for write speed with the 671 internal test and IBM rates the drive for sustained write speeds up to 7MB/sec, so i figured that a 24/48k recording should be well in the safe zone - looks like i was wrong. BTW i am using a Scandisk 4G CF card. i also hjad the recorder in verify mode - that may well account for the short run time - have to test further. also note that in 24bit mode there is no RAW - read after write -  ie no 3 head function...

the recording came out ok, i used a shure fp33 as a pre with 2 senn k3u/me40 and one akg 460/ck63. i also used the mic in on the 671 and it seems like there are times you can hear some hiss... will have to look more carefully into that end of the recording, altho my plan is to use the line in.

i did not use the limiter, got some OVR's on the display but never saw them happen. can't really hear them either, so we will have to see how the limiter as well as the metering really works.

so far, i think the unit is pretty cool. i do think that it is best to run the CF cards tho. i really hate having to carry SLA batteries to run the unit long enuff to get a complete show using the microdrives and i am pretty sure that i would not have any "skips" were i running the CF card.

all for now
neil
Neil Sturtevant
San Marcos, CA
AKG 451's + CK1/CK8/CK9
AKG 460's + CK61/CK63 or A60M + CK1/CK8/CK9  or MK46/CK1X/CK8X
Sennheiser K3U + MKE-2, ME20, ME40, ME80, ME88
Sennheiser MKH 110/2 x2 + MKH 110/1 powered via custom battbox
Busman BSC1-K1/K2/K3/K4
Shure FP33 or Sony DMX P01
Korg MR1000 or Sony M1
stealth: M1 > MKE-2/ME 20/ME40 in the hat
all cabling LINK (made in Germany) balanced or balanced miniature w/ Neutrik ends

making custom cables and serviceable (non-epoxy) ultraflush right angle cables plus other custom projects

Offline krebsy

  • Trade Count: (3)
  • Taperssection Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 552
Re: Marantz PMD 671 announced (on Oade)
« Reply #113 on: April 28, 2005, 05:33:18 PM »
i also used the mic in on the 671 and it seems like there are times you can hear some hiss...

I don't know much about specs in general, but I think I remeber a few people commenting that the S/N ratio wasn't too great on this unit.  Might have something to do with the hiss.

Edit to add:  Thanks for sharing your experiences!!
"Two wrongs don't make a right. Three rights make a left."

Offline Datcc

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Taperssection Regular
  • **
  • Posts: 87
  • Gender: Male
Re: Marantz PMD 671 announced (on Oade)
« Reply #114 on: May 10, 2005, 05:27:43 AM »
Great read....thanks guys!
"My therory is that the end of the Cold War is what started global warming"  (Steven Wright)

Offline gebs2112

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Taperssection Newbie
  • *
  • Posts: 7
Re: Marantz PMD 671 announced (on Oade)
« Reply #115 on: May 11, 2005, 01:53:21 PM »
I am testing this unit now..... with 24/96 Phantom/manual/Limiter....no noise S/N problems so far with it

Offline Govt Mule

  • Trade Count: (2)
  • Taperssection Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 946
  • Gender: Male
Re: Marantz PMD 671 announced (on Oade)
« Reply #116 on: May 11, 2005, 07:03:38 PM »
I am testing this unit now..... with 24/96 Phantom/manual/Limiter....no noise S/N problems so far with it
what kind of card are you using?
Water tastes funny when you're far from your home, But it's only the thirsty that hunger to roam.- John Prine

Offline gebs2112

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Taperssection Newbie
  • *
  • Posts: 7
Re: Marantz PMD 671 announced (on Oade)
« Reply #117 on: May 12, 2005, 10:12:18 AM »
4Gb compact flashes

Offline Govt Mule

  • Trade Count: (2)
  • Taperssection Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 946
  • Gender: Male
Re: Marantz PMD 671 announced (on Oade)
« Reply #118 on: May 12, 2005, 01:14:22 PM »
Water tastes funny when you're far from your home, But it's only the thirsty that hunger to roam.- John Prine

Offline gebs2112

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Taperssection Newbie
  • *
  • Posts: 7
Re: Marantz PMD 671 announced (on Oade)
« Reply #119 on: May 12, 2005, 06:34:43 PM »
Sandisk ones and note this..........if you do not set the switch correctly on the card you will not get the required time.
For a 4 Gb card at 24/96 it should be 118 mins (1hour 58mins approx)

 

RSS | Mobile
Page created in 0.125 seconds with 44 queries.
© 2002-2024 Taperssection.com
Powered by SMF