im in the club! been playing with it all day and getting used to the menus. its a ittle unnerving coming from a mixpre with the touchscreen, menu operations seem to take a little longer with the hardware menu nav buttons, but im getting used to it.
apart from Voltronic's opinions which i share (smaller than expected, great build quality, nice bright screen, efficient batt life, functional customizable lock function) one thing i really like is the key settings are kind of buried in the menu, they are difficult to mess up. in most cases, the only thing you would ever do from night to night is maybe toggle mic to line input and phantom on or off if using external pre or board feed.
considering trim/gain seems entirely irrelevant in 32-float, really just show up, plug in, click input knobs on and press record, and sort it out later. if youre matching your input devices carefully (keeping below +24dBU), theres really nothing that can change the recording
the 4 powerex precharge AAs (LSD) went 203 minutes (3h23m) w/6 channels of phantom (2x dpa mmp-a, 2x dpa mma-c, 2x dpa mmp-e) writing 6ch of 32/192 (no LR or dual tracks). AA battery display indicates actual voltage, not percent. dropped to 4.7V almost immediately, then 4.6 and 4.5V slowly. flashed me low batt warning at 4.4V and ran about 20-25 minutes after this notification. so plenty of warning there. the unit saved last file fine upon battery shutdown
impressive! if i could get 2-3 hours out of a smaller L-series battery+ 3 hours out of internal AAs thats the 5hrs i need to cover 90% of my outings and i have 10000 and 20000 maH usb-c batts for long outings. i dont have an L-battery but switching between AAs and usb-c batts is seamless to the units operation
it says it outputs 2ch mix to ios, im going to order a usb-c to lightning cable and see if it can feed an iphone a mixlr stream
question#1: if i use the "volume" control in soundforge is that nondestructive normalization? seems i can push it like 60dB past 0dB and bring it back down without clipped peaks
question#2 if feeding unbalanced input should pin 2 be signal, pin 3 be ground, and pin1 be cable shield, left to float at the unbalanced end? or should pin 3 and 1 be grounded together?