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Re: Sound Devices MixPre-3 and 6, Part 5
« Reply #135 on: July 23, 2018, 04:03:43 PM »
I have always had issues with bluetooth/wingman on all firmware versions (i'm on Android).  oddly enough I had no issues at all with it the other night on 2.21
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Re: Sound Devices MixPre-3 and 6, Part 5
« Reply #136 on: July 23, 2018, 06:28:18 PM »
I have always had issues with bluetooth/wingman on all firmware versions (i'm on Android).  oddly enough I had no issues at all with it the other night on 2.21

This may sound crazy but I'm exactly the opposite.  I've never had any problems with BT/wingman until this weekend on 2.21.
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Re: Sound Devices MixPre-3 and 6, Part 5
« Reply #137 on: July 23, 2018, 06:35:04 PM »
I used wingman for the first time the other night with 2.21 no problems, well Gordon did keep hooking up to my deck. 
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Re: Sound Devices MixPre-3 and 6, Part 5
« Reply #138 on: July 23, 2018, 07:04:14 PM »
I used wingman for the first time the other night with 2.21 no problems, well Gordon did keep hooking up to my deck.


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Re: Sound Devices MixPre-3 and 6, Part 5
« Reply #139 on: July 23, 2018, 07:04:43 PM »
I used wingman for the first time the other night with 2.21 no problems, well Gordon did keep hooking up to my deck.


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Re: Sound Devices MixPre-3 and 6, Part 5
« Reply #140 on: July 25, 2018, 12:20:00 AM »
Regarding power up and down the tiny switch - is that a mechanical or logic power switch?
I believe I've noticed a lag in shutting down when it's still writing a file, so I think it's a logic switch. I could easily be mistaken though.


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Re: Sound Devices MixPre-3 and 6, Part 5
« Reply #141 on: July 28, 2018, 11:07:47 AM »
this might be a stupid question, but does anyone know how to type on the mixpre screen? like when it brings up the keyboard to change the filename or something, pressing the letter buttons doesn't do anything. i can get around it for renaming files and naming channels by doing it in the wingman app, but i'm asking specifically for the purpose of setting a bluetooth password. there doesn't seem to be a way to set a password in the app (that i can find), and bringing up that menu option on the mixpre screen and attempting to type doesn't do anything.

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Re: Sound Devices MixPre-3 and 6, Part 5
« Reply #142 on: July 28, 2018, 11:12:12 AM »
this might be a stupid question, but does anyone know how to type on the mixpre screen? like when it brings up the keyboard to change the filename or something, pressing the letter buttons doesn't do anything. i can get around it for renaming files and naming channels by doing it in the wingman app, but i'm asking specifically for the purpose of setting a bluetooth password. there doesn't seem to be a way to set a password in the app (that i can find), and bringing up that menu option on the mixpre screen and attempting to type doesn't do anything.

headphone knob or you can connect a usb keyboard.
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Re: Sound Devices MixPre-3 and 6, Part 5
« Reply #143 on: July 28, 2018, 11:50:47 AM »
^^doh! thanks, the knob didn't occur to me for some reason.

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Re: Sound Devices MixPre-3 and 6, Part 5
« Reply #144 on: July 28, 2018, 11:54:35 AM »
I one of those wireless keyboards with a tiny USB dongle that identify itself as a keyboard to the Mixpre. Works perfect.

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Re: Sound Devices MixPre-3 and 6, Part 5
« Reply #145 on: July 28, 2018, 12:50:19 PM »
headphone knob or you can connect a usb keyboard.
Note that the USB port is only able to support a keyboard in "Full Power" mode, not low power mode.
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Re: Sound Devices MixPre-3 and 6, Part 5
« Reply #146 on: July 28, 2018, 12:54:32 PM »
just playing around with the SD software Wave Agent Beta for the first time on an actual recording of a show, and it was a little confusing at first with the numbering schemes of the channels. i figured it out but i thought i would explain here in case it helps anyone. i have a mixpre-6, and i don't use the L-R mix, only iso tracks. last night i recorded one pair of mics to channels 1 and 2 (xlr) and another pair of mics to channels 5 and 6 (stereo 1/8" aux/mic in) with channels 3 and 4 (xlr) empty/unused. as i see it, there are 3 ways of numbering these tracks:

1) the way they are numbered in/on the mixpre unit itself -- channels 1-4 are xlr, channels 5-6 are aux/mic in or usb or whatever.
2) same as in 1) but including the L-R mix, shifting the numbers accordingly. so the L-R mix is now channels 1-2, channels 1-4 are now 3-6, and channels 5-6 are now 7-8.
3) numbering them in order based on only the channels you happened to use. so in my case, because i used 4 channels, channels 1-2 would be 1-2 and channels 5-6 would be 3-4.

the SD software shows a table where the first two column headings are "channel" and "interleave". the "channel" column uses the numbering scheme in 2), accounting for the L-R mix. the "interleave" column uses the numbering scheme in 3), referring only to the channels used in that particular polywave file. after experimenting with the matrix for splitting files, i realized that the matrix requires you to select the channels you want according to 3) or "interleave". at first i tried selecting according to the numbering scheme in 2), or selecting channels 3-4 and 7-8 as my two output files. this didn't work, as it detected channels 7-8 to be blank, despite listing 7-8 as existing channels under the "channel" column header. a little confusing! anyway, thought i would share this in case it saves someone else a headache.

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Re: Sound Devices MixPre-3 and 6, Part 5
« Reply #147 on: July 28, 2018, 01:17:38 PM »
Wow, I have not dug that deeply. I just drag them into either Audacity, or Sound Forge, and they pop up in their original channel pairs, titled like they are in the machine.


I don't FLAC my masters for my own archives, so I don't usually need to split things, unless I plan to share something out and want to have lossless compression for the transmit.
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Re: Sound Devices MixPre-3 and 6, Part 5
« Reply #148 on: July 28, 2018, 02:33:49 PM »
My first official outing with my MixPre-6 went well on Friday afternoon. I set-up a bunch of pre-sets first to cover the situations I experience most often. I employed ToddR's recommended "set it and forget it" strategy for the soundcheck, but I guess I'm just a tweaker as I went back to using the knobs as gain controls after the soundcheck. I just feel more comfortable with that workflow.
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Re: Sound Devices MixPre-3 and 6, Part 5
« Reply #149 on: July 29, 2018, 08:50:24 AM »
I did my first 4-track recordings with the MixPre yesterday. What a great device. Really easy to use. Splitting the Polywavs was easy as pie.

 

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