Topic: Drum Roll....WOOOHOOO......Sound Devices 788T

[H₂O]

Anyone seen this yet?

http://www.trewaudio.com/audioflow/2008/04/18/this-just-in/

Click the link under the video player for the 788.

Nice +T

[penguin]

Any deliveries yet???!?

[wbrisette]

Any deliveries yet???!?

I know of one sound mixer in town who is using one on a film project right now. I worked with him on a feature outside of town last year. His only complaint so far is that you don't have a built-in mixer like the Deva. Otherwise he is very pleased with it.

Wayne

[boojum]

I got mine about two weeks ago.  It is a sweet machine.  A little more complex that the earlier 7xx's but that is to be expected.  It has the same ease of use once set up and is just as rugged.  All the lights on it make it look like a Wurlitzer when it is recording.  I do like it, but now I have to learn multi-track mixing, which I am doing.  I am mixing a four track recording of a choral group which performed on the 17th and 18th of last month.  I can carry the mics and recorder and cables in one trip.  Stands in the second.  With my other 722's  can do 12 discrete channels.  With the Mackie make that 16 channels, six of which are mixed on-site.  Until I have gotten four channels to mix well I will stick with four channels. 

I am set for recording gear.  Maybe a few more mics to round out the kit.

Cheers

[Jimna]

awesome!  more pics please!

[boojum]

Are you trying to establish whether I actually bought it or do you really want to see SD porn?  The website has better photos, but I can and will take a bunch of photos for you gear sluts if you want.  I can tell you this much: it is a very nice machine.  I am happy with the results so far.  The only problem I have had so far is decoding some Schoeps Double M/S recordings I have made.  And that is not the SD.  It is the operator.  When I get some slack time I will go back and work it out.  I have overlooked something trivial, for sure.

My only complaint, so far, is that SD sends the same size bag as foir the other 7xx's to hold this larger machine.  For this kind of money they culd at least have a bag that fits.  /whining

L8R

[boojum]

OK, here is some gear pr0n for those who want to see some more photos of the 788T.

[boojum]

One final photo

[mmedley.]

A bad LED already? Damn, that sucks.

[digifish_music]

OK, here is some gear pr0n for those who want to see some more photos of the 788T.

Nice

I have never understood why SD design the 7 series with the battery sticking out the back...

digifish

[penguin]

OK, here is some gear pr0n for those who want to see some more photos of the 788T.

Purty!

[OFOTD]

I have never understood why SD design the 7 series with the battery sticking out the back...

Remember that most of the folks here who use these units buy the biggest capacity battery they can find that inevitably all are deeper.

[Brian Skalinder]

I have never understood why SD design the 7 series with the battery sticking out the back...

Where else to put it?  I love the 722 battery setup.  The 722s design layout / quasi-integral battery / rear-mount design allows me to run my 722 in a huge variety of bags, with the controls facing me, provides the option to utilize different capacity batteries without having to rearrange the layout of my bag, leverages readily available and field-proven L- or M-type batteries (traditionally used for video equipment), and doesn't require cabling between external batteries (for which I'd have to find space in my bag, and not well integrated with my 722s form factor).  I think it's brilliant.

[digifish_music]

I have never understood why SD design the 7 series with the battery sticking out the back...

Where else to put it?  I love the 722 battery setup.  The 722s design layout / quasi-integral battery / rear-mount design allows me to run my 722 in a huge variety of bags, with the controls facing me, provides the option to utilize different capacity batteries without having to rearrange the layout of my bag, leverages readily available and field-proven L- or M-type batteries (traditionally used for video equipment), and doesn't require cabling between external batteries (for which I'd have to find space in my bag, and not well integrated with my 722s form factor).  I think it's brilliant.

It's not so much the position, but the fact it sticks out. This prevents the unit being placed on it's back etc.

digifish

[Brian Skalinder]

It's not so much the position, buth the fact it sticks out. This prevents the unit being placed on it's back etc.

Freestanding, maybe (but not sure if I'd ever want to stand it on its back freestanding).  But in a gear bag, I think it works great.  Anyway...sweet looking 788, boojum!