My thoughts after playing around with the Mix Pre 6 for a while now:
- As everyone else has said, it's pretty tiny, but heavy/dense feeling. If someone wants a comparison to a 744, M10 or Nbox I'm happy to post a photo but this has been covered pretty well!
- Preamps seem fine for our purposes. Not sure about the limiters. Haven't had a chance to record a show with it yet
- Firmware update is easy and totally fixes the SD card issue. Works on SD cards at least up to 128GB
- The menu isn't totally intuitive, especially coming from my experience as a 702,722 and 744 owner. But I've gotten pretty used to it and think I've got it set now
- The touchscreen is pretty easy to use
- I don't see any reason to have the LCD above 1 and the LED above 2 in terms of brightness. In fact, I wish the LCD could be dimmer.
- I really wish channel linking was an option (I know Paul said they are aware and working on this). That said, it is pretty easy to match levels across channels with Custom Mode, Basic Gain. Not sure how the gain structure works, but in this setup, you turn the knob and the gain level changes. Fine by me.
- It doesn't seem to power on to the last state every time - at least for the metering display
- I get 2.5 hours using 8 AA Enloop Pros with 4 channels P48 and gain around 50-60, bluetooth off, timecode off and aux off using PFAs>KCY and Nbox cables. I will pack a C>C cable and battery just in case.
- I wish the battery indicator was more advanced, giving an indication of how much time was left. The 7 series shows volts and that is pretty helpful
- I wish it could record to mono wav in addition to poly wav
- Kinda wish it had more output options as I might run it into the 744 some time
- I haven't had any issues with the L battery sled but haven't tried 2 batteries on it yet
- I find the battery sleds kinda hard to pop off. They also feel flimsy (at least compared to the rest of the unit) and I am not sure how long the 8xAA one will last. It seems like its likely to break along the point where it opens to get the other 4 batteries in.