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Gear / Technical Help => Battery Boxes, Preamps, Mixers, ADCs, and Processors => Topic started by: BCostigan on April 02, 2003, 10:13:32 PM
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I just saw that this is coming out. Sound devices is making a 3 channel mixer/preamp. Looks like a nice unit for those doing 3 mic mixes. Here's a link where I saw it:
http://www.micsupply.com/302.htm (http://www.micsupply.com/302.htm)
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thats really expensive for the quality of the sd equipment....
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what's wrong with the quality of SD equipment?
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Concidering the mp2 is about $625 new I didn't think it was that bad. I had an mp2 and thought the thing sounded pretty good......hopefully not as good as my new ad1k but I don't know yet. ;) :'(
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I thought the quality of the MP-2 was great, built like a tank
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i agree. ;)
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Actually the price seems right on. If you figure the MP-2 is $625 and is two channel, then it's about $313 per channel so $939 for the three channels plus a little extra for the cool new level meters ;). I think micsupply is taking pre orders and their price is just over a grand. :o
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I'm not a huge fan of the mp-2 myself, i guess it seems difficult for me to justify a 1000+ expendeture just to get that extra channel.... i mean if i was gonna spend that much to get three channels (mind you running 3 channels makes it somewhat hard to stealth) i'd just get two v2s. Built as well with IMHO better sound than the MP-2.
Jonny
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OK....I could be retarded but how would you get a good 3 mic mix with 2 V2s??? The only thing I can come up with is that the third mic would only be on the left or right channel and not mixed to both....what am I missing? ???
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SD products are great for the $$. I havent heard anything bad from a SD tape. You can take the MP-2 apart and put it in an Altoid container...talk about stealth!!
Phil
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for the third mic you would just run one channel in the 2nd v2. think of it this way, grace makes 3 main models for studio pre's. the 101 (1 channel) the 201 (2 channels) and the 801 (8 channels) you can run the 801 with 5 mics in it and still get the same effect. the v2 doesnt mix down to a stereo mix, it just preamps each channel individually.
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i'm a bit confused. i thought the point of the SD product was to create a 2 channel stereo mix from 3 inputs. how can you do this with 2 v2's unless you are doing some post mixing?
-damon
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good point, i hadnt noticed this was doing 3>2 mixdown. I thought it was just a 3 channel preamp. i stand corrected!