ok, first of all, MICRDRIVES. Not for me, reread the prior thread and you will see my comments. condensed, i said they worked on the bench, but as soon as the deck went into the bag, the d*mn thing sucked batteries as well as shuttung down due to heat. now you could take the cosmetic cover that is held in with 4 screws off and see if that would allow you to cool the thing down, but i won't go there - and i was using a hitachi 6G drive for $160 so i can say i am kinda bummer about that - 24/96 for 3 hrs - just perfect! anyway, i will not run the microdrive, and besides, the whole idea of CF recoreds is to get away from hardware that has moving parts that can fail.
taped Mule at the Sun Th last nite. got a thought in my head to try the unbalanced 1/8" mini out on the Shure FP33. i have been dedicating it to the M1 as there is also a mini return aka monitor that allows to to listen to that input seperately - great for checking the analog into a deck via the loud shure phones output. then i have been using the XLR outs to RCA to feed the 671 on line in, but have had to run the mixer so low that the headphone output was useless. it occurred to me that shure was probably smart and set up the XLR to pro levels and the mini to consumer ouput tlevels. gee, i was right. so i got a smoking tape, loud phoones and a mixer running d*mn near unity. HOORAY!
dither.... i use Samplitude to edit my 24bit recordings. it takes a bit to load the .wav files (i have not sent the deck in for the software update, so i assume i am using the "new" MS wav format to record to). i circulate 16bit recording from samplitudes dither function and listen to my 24bit recordings on the computer via Nero or in the car/house via DVD players and AudioDVDCreator. it works for me. i prefer, SO FAR< the dithered recordings to the truncated ones, altho in nondritical listening situations like the car, i do not have any problems listening to the truncated dats. i do the dats mostly as safeties.
i think folks considering the 671 should look at the Tascam DAP2. the upcharge might be worth it if the brickwalling pre issues are not there with the P2 like the 671 has... course i do not know size etc as of this post, still i think one should consider it. i get the feeling it will not be much more than the 671...
neil in san marcos
off to HOB-SD - 5 shows/6 nights and only tomorrow to go and seriously bummed as i hear that Vegas mule Fri nite is to be a 4-5 hr gig and i can't go.
