« Reply #40 on: July 10, 2014, 01:49:28 PM »
For stealth if you can't manage 19 oz and the size of 2 cigarette packs, then your skills are weak
and you should probably not be in the stealth taping game.
If you can stealth with a tiny box and not with an Nbox, then your balls are smaller than a teenyweeny box
Only speaking for myself, it's not a question of if you can...it's a question of if the sound quality over a tinybox is worth the added hassle of stealthing a pre-amp twice as big.
I've got one of each and for my ears I prefer the sound of the Nbox but have no issues with the TB's sound. That said there are times when the need to swap batteries mid-show requires that I run my Tinybox and for that reason I like having one of each. Sounds to me that Nbox platinum will solve that problem for me.
I've not been able to do a side by side comp and understand that my brain is likely going to want the preamp that I have significantly more invested in to sound better but I have to go with what I think is true. I do find that there is more headroom on my Nbox recordings but I don't know enough about that to speak to the reasons why. I once f-ed the battery swap up and caught the Nbox as it was losing its juice and quickly swapped the Tinybox in its place mid song and the WAV files looked dramatically different. The Nbox portion of the recording had a greater spread in dynamic range while the Tinybox portion had more consistant peaks. Not sure if I'm describing this correctly.
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Mics: Schoeps MK5's, Schoeps MK41's, AT853's (C,SC,H,O), DPA 4061's
Preamps/converters: Schoeps VMS52UB (x2), Nbox (x2), E.A.A. PSP-2 (x2) Grace Lunatec V2, Sound Devices MP-2, DPA MMA6000, Naiant Tinybox v1.5, Naiant PiPsqueak, Church Ugly, Apogee Mini-Me, Benchmark AD2k+
Recorders: Tascam DR-680, Korg MR-1, Edirol R-05, Sony PCM-M10 (x2), Tascam DR-07, Marantz PMD-661, Sound Devices Mixpre-3