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Re: Sound Devices MixPre-3 and 6, Part 6
« Reply #75 on: May 04, 2019, 07:54:00 AM »
You just need a usb-c male to male cable, the shorter the better.

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Doesn't get me full power, but I'm only running 2 channels of phantom, so works for my need.

If you can, get a USB battery pack that has USB-c output. With a USB-c to USB-c cable, I get 12 hours of full power on my MixPre 6 using 2 channels of phantom.
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Re: Sound Devices MixPre-3 and 6, Part 6
« Reply #76 on: May 14, 2019, 01:23:39 PM »
Is the consensus that 3.03 is stable for "what we do?" I'm still on 2.21 and was going to update, but wanted to check first...
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Re: Sound Devices MixPre-3 and 6, Part 6
« Reply #77 on: May 15, 2019, 11:41:38 AM »
I'm on 3.02 and as long as you don't use pre-roll it's fine.  I have no use for pre-roll and haven't tested but have seen reports of issues.....
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Re: Sound Devices MixPre-3 and 6, Part 6
« Reply #78 on: May 15, 2019, 12:06:24 PM »
I'm on 3.02 and as long as you don't use pre-roll it's fine.  I have no use for pre-roll and haven't tested but have seen reports of issues.....

I had issues with pre-roll creating a small gap between files, so I reverted to 3.02 and have had no problems.
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Re: Sound Devices MixPre-3 and 6, Part 6
« Reply #79 on: June 04, 2019, 01:22:21 PM »
Ugh, I haven't read all these threads but I had an issue withe MP6 last night.  I was recording room mics and stereo SBD signal.  CH 1-2 SBD, CH 3-4 Mic's.  At first I had 1-2 set to mic with phantom power and 3-4 line.  The first few minutes of  soundcheck has the SBD ok, however when I stopped the recorder and changed 3-4 to mic w/ phantom power and 1-2 to line the entire recording is the room mic's.  Ch1-6 are all room mic's.  I had used basic mode prior for an event last weekend and changed to custom last night.

Is this a user error or a glitch?  I haven't used the (new for me) mode settings much.  I usually leave it on advanced or custom, not sure which, but I don't use basic often.

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Re: Sound Devices MixPre-3 and 6, Part 6
« Reply #80 on: June 04, 2019, 01:40:56 PM »
Sounds like a routing error. When I first got my MP6 I attached a battery pack and just screwed around with it for hours. I wanted to get to know it well enough that anything that came up I could handle. I used my phone MP3 player as the line in and my Naiant omnis as the P48 mics. I tried every combination I could think of. Then I made pre-sets for every combination of gear that I had. Unfortunately, I forgot some of the menu choices and will have to go back to re-learn them, as I've gotten lazy since I only deal with the pre-sets now.

Good luck. I'm sure someone with a better memory than mine can tell you what menu items address your issue.
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Re: Sound Devices MixPre-3 and 6, Part 6
« Reply #81 on: June 04, 2019, 01:51:01 PM »
Ugh, I haven't read all these threads but I had an issue withe MP6 last night.  I was recording room mics and stereo SBD signal.  CH 1-2 SBD, CH 3-4 Mic's.  At first I had 1-2 set to mic with phantom power and 3-4 line.  The first few minutes of  soundcheck has the SBD ok, however when I stopped the recorder and changed 3-4 to mic w/ phantom power and 1-2 to line the entire recording is the room mic's.  Ch1-6 are all room mic's.  I had used basic mode prior for an event last weekend and changed to custom last night.

Is this a user error or a glitch?  I haven't used the (new for me) mode settings much.  I usually leave it on advanced or custom, not sure which, but I don't use basic often.

Are you aware the recording is a poly file? Have you opened the file and looked at the individual tracks, and seen only 3-4 or only 1-2? Do the files all look identical? Did you record the mix also? Does that look identical?
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Re: Sound Devices MixPre-3 and 6, Part 6
« Reply #82 on: June 04, 2019, 02:11:53 PM »
Sounds like a routing error.

Yeah, may be some glitch that when I changed line/mic settings it recorded 3-4 as all the tracks. Probably should have powered off the recorder.  The SBD and Mic levels displayed were different, but the recorded files are all the same.

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Re: Sound Devices MixPre-3 and 6, Part 6
« Reply #83 on: June 04, 2019, 03:41:29 PM »
Ugh, I haven't read all these threads but I had an issue withe MP6 last night.  I was recording room mics and stereo SBD signal.  CH 1-2 SBD, CH 3-4 Mic's.  At first I had 1-2 set to mic with phantom power and 3-4 line.  The first few minutes of  soundcheck has the SBD ok, however when I stopped the recorder and changed 3-4 to mic w/ phantom power and 1-2 to line the entire recording is the room mic's.  Ch1-6 are all room mic's.  I had used basic mode prior for an event last weekend and changed to custom last night.

Is this a user error or a glitch?  I haven't used the (new for me) mode settings much.  I usually leave it on advanced or custom, not sure which, but I don't use basic often.

Are you aware the recording is a poly file? Have you opened the file and looked at the individual tracks, and seen only 3-4 or only 1-2? Do the files all look identical? Did you record the mix also? Does that look identical?

1-6 are all L/R room mic's.  I powered off the recorder between sets and set 2 is also all room mic's.

MP6 displays a note when changing modes that says "turn all knobs to off, expect channel changes..." ( I did not do that).  Still, the SBD signal was recorded when 1-2 were set at mic level with phantom power.
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Re: Sound Devices MixPre-3 and 6, Part 6
« Reply #84 on: June 04, 2019, 04:09:37 PM »
Have you separated out the stereo pairs and listened to them or are you listening to the RAW WAV which combines all the tracks into one?
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Re: Sound Devices MixPre-3 and 6, Part 6
« Reply #85 on: June 04, 2019, 05:14:41 PM »
I have to say I am a little confused about the details of hat you were doing.

You were basic mode recently. You switched to custom mode for this event. Did you chose everything advanced but gain basic, etc when doing so? Did you format the card so you didnt end up with some other preset? You then connected 1-2 to SBD even though phantom was on and the channels were set to Microphone? After soundcheck, you switched the microphones to 1-2  and the SBD patch to 1-2? After doing so, your polywav recording for 1-2 and 3-4 are only the from the microphones? No SBD? Are 1-2 and 3-4 duplicates of each other?

 
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Re: Sound Devices MixPre-3 and 6, Part 6
« Reply #86 on: June 04, 2019, 07:19:26 PM »

Are you aware the recording is a poly file? Have you opened the file and looked at the individual tracks, and seen only 3-4 or only 1-2? Do the files all look identical? Did you record the mix also? Does that look identical?


1-6 are all L/R room mic's.  I powered off the recorder between sets and set 2 is also all room mic's.

Sound Devices combines their files into Polywave files. All he files are combined and have to be separated which they have a tool for or many programs will do. Have you done this? This is different than most recorders. If you just play the recorded file it'll play and seem like a regular file but it is all the files combined.
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Re: Sound Devices MixPre-3 and 6, Part 6
« Reply #87 on: June 05, 2019, 01:16:21 AM »


I'll send a message to SD customer service.
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Re: Sound Devices MixPre-3 and 6, Part 6
« Reply #88 on: June 05, 2019, 07:29:28 AM »


I'll send a message to SD customer service.

Did you split the polywave?

If not, the problem here is user error.
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Re: Sound Devices MixPre-3 and 6, Part 6
« Reply #89 on: June 09, 2019, 03:19:44 AM »
i have a few noob questions, FW 2.21. ive read a bunch but jsut need to conform some things to make sure im not missing anything:

1. i just want to record the iso channels, no interest in eating up sdcard space with the mixdown tracks. i want to use the knobs as input gain not output bus faders. is this method posted earlier in the threads still the preferred way:

" in Custom mode, if you set "Gain" to "Basic" but leave "Channel" on "Advanced" (and Record on Advanced like Paul said) then that approaches what we want to do. Namely in this mode it seems like the channel faders do act like gain pots (albeit with the modified -14-96db range), but since the channel is in advanced mode you still have access to all of the other channel settings like full pan, low cut settings, and linking."'


also are we 100% sure this actually controls input gain?

2. is there anyway to bypass limiters in basic gain, seems like you could do it in "advanced gain" but then you lose the functionality described in #1 above.

3. is there a way to playback iso files through the headphone out (if you didnt record the L+R output bus), i cant figure this out

thanks!




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