My thoughts about windscreen options were either four windtechs trimmed to fit or one LD screen to cover the whole thing with a foam insert to cover the bottom ala the tetramic windscreen. Is there advantages/disadvantages to either of them? I welcome your diy input.
JTL, what are you using to power the mic? As I'd mentioned in my pm, the way to run the SF for best results in A/B Format is to make sure your gain is set equally across all 4 channels. Stepped gain seems to be easiest to insure accuracy. You'll see variances in signal strength across all 4 but that's key to insuring a good decode to stereo, 5.1, etc...My biggest mistakes were running all 4 channels at different gain setting to make sure I had equal levels. It f'ed up the decode process in some ways. I followed up with SF and the above is the advice they gave me for best results.
I saw in that video SF makes a 4 channel pre for it, I'd guess it's portable and can be supplied with DC power, but that's just a guess. Also, Aerco was willing to build a 4 channel pre for it when I inquired. Stepped or linked gain, internal rechargeables with an option for external DC as well. That would be an interesting pairing, IMO.
If for some reason I can't get my replacement 350 working consistently and flawlessly I';ll be following your lead here, and think I'll take Aerco up on building a pre to support it.
Still holding out on the 350 though. Not sure how much sonic difference there is between the 200 and 350, it would come down to the pre I'd imagine. I bet the pre SF is selling with the 200 would make it almost identical to the 350...provided there's an option for DC powering.