Topic: my first hour with the 722 (with pics)

[scb]

because of the set-up with the cables on the side, i know i'll need a bigger fannypack to stealth it with.  i can't fit the unit in my current ems pack with the xlrs attached

[gewwang]

because of the set-up with the cables on the side, i know i'll need a bigger fannypack to stealth it with.  i can't fit the unit in my current ems pack with the xlrs attached

Damn, so running in pants is not an option?

[scb]

anything's possible.

[Lil Kim Jong-Il]

Scott, did you tape anything last night ;-)

[scb]

i watched the first 8 episodes of season 2 of 24 last night

(so no )

[wbrisette]

Damn, so running in pants is not an option?

It kills me to read these types of things. ;-)

Why are people obsessed with stealthing? Maybe I'm just a bit burned out after taping so much for so long, but if a band tells me I can't tape them, I don't. (Of course now with the Deva, there ain't NO way that I could get away with it anyhow, but...)

I don't want to hijack this thread, let's continue to talk about the 722, I'm dying to hear some of the stuff people are doing with them. I'm just amazed at how many people seemed truly concerned about being able to cram this thing down their pants and running it from within their pants. ;-)

Wayne

[wbrisette]

i watched the first 8 episodes of season 2 of 24 last night

I must live in a shell, what the heck is this?

Wayne

[John Kelly]

Damn, so running in pants is not an option?

It kills me to read these types of things. ;-)

Why are people obsessed with stealthing? Maybe I'm just a bit burned out after taping so much for so long, but if a band tells me I can't tape them, I don't. (Of course now with the Deva, there ain't NO way that I could get away with it anyhow, but...)

I don't want to hijack this thread, let's continue to talk about the 722, I'm dying to hear some of the stuff people are doing with them. I'm just amazed at how many people seemed truly concerned about being able to cram this thing down their pants and running it from within their pants. ;-)

Wayne

If a band tells me I can't tape them I take it as a challenge.

[Lil Kim Jong-Il]

i watched the first 8 episodes of season 2 of 24 last night

(so no )

How could you sit still with that thing in the house ??  I'm scouring the local venue listings for anything to tape as soon as that box hits my doorstep.  Did you at least setup and tape while the TV was on?

I can't wait to post some samples.  I still am in awe that the 744 demos machines have been out for so long and I have seen not one high res sample offered.  Maybe I'm just not looking in the right place.

[scb]

Why are people obsessed with stealthing? Maybe I'm just a bit burned out after taping so much for so long, but if a band tells me I can't tape them, I don't.

there are a ton of great bands that don't allow taping.  If i like the music enough to go to a show, why not make a copy to listen to again?

[MattD]

Wayne, aside from open and stealth taping, I just agreed to record sound and FX for a friend from school who's entering the Philly 48-hour movie contest. Should be a cool challenge and something that I couldn't have done with my laptop rig (portable, but not enough so).

[greenone]

i can't fit the unit in my current ems pack with the xlrs attached

XLRs on your... ...oh, you mean the 722.

[wbrisette]

Wayne, aside from open and stealth taping, I just agreed to record sound and FX for a friend from school who's entering the Philly 48-hour movie contest. Should be a cool challenge and something that I couldn't have done with my laptop rig (portable, but not enough so).

Excellent. Although you don't have timecode with the 722. How you going to sync up?

Wayne

[scb]

i'm going to see if i can find right angle adapters that work

[Lil Kim Jong-Il]

This thing showed up just as I was putting away my work, so I haven't had more than an hour with it.  But I like it a lot already. 

- Drive swap and formatting is super easy.

- I really dig the metering.  It's the best metering I've ever had (though limited experience)

- One really needs to lock the front panel buttons after configuring.  I've already bumped the input routing button twice causing it to route incorrectly.  It's a good thing those auto lock during a recording session.

- I really like the discrete gain readings.  No more guessing if the gain is matched across channels.

- There seems to be no way to erase files in the field?  I didn't find that yet if it's there.

- head phone amp is really nice.


I've got just two issues so far:

1) I'm seeing something that looks buggy in the headphone monitoring menu. 

It isn't scrolling the options as it does for the other menu items and it is not letting me select 1,2 as teh monitoring source.
When it scrolls, it scrolls only the last two lines and leaves the top line stuck at a value. 
When I select the wave button (soft labeled as the check mark) it jumps to another option in the menu, not accepting the selection.

All the other menus seem to navigate as expected.

Scott, do you see this problem with yours?  I don't want to start reporting bugs if this is pilot error.


2) Another thing I'm seeing that I do not understand is that when I feed an AES signal from the V3 to the 722, I can watch the LCD panel and it shows it relocking to the proper rate as I move through the rate selections on the V3.  It does not indicate 16-bit when ANSR is selected. 

Does this mean that for a 16-bit digital feed the 722 needs to be reconfiured to store 16-bit file format?