Topic: Firmware: Sound Devices 7XX Badger ***BETA***

[Kevin]

Do any of you record to an external drive via firewire?

Yea, I have a 2.5" external enclosure that I record to.  I have been doing 24/96 to both INHDD and EXTHDD for some time with no issues.

I power the external drive off my 7.2V dummy cell setup via a 5v LDO voltage regulator.

It works flawlessly, i believe i am running 2.15 firmware, w/ the V2 hardware upgrade, i do not use the XL1394 adapter.  I can even plug in the external drive while i am rolling and once it becomes available (~10 seconds) it starts writing to the external drive.  I have not experience any ill effects except for an extra 500mah power consumption which is to be expected.

Sounds good.  I have been thinking of selling off some gear and picking up the 702 or 722,  I have a bunch of external drives so to save a few hundred sounds good to me. 

[Chilly Brioschi]

No matter how you look at it, FLAC will always allow double the recording, double the fun!     
An excellent include, I'm seriously looking at the SD702 now.

It's not just the FLAC, its the responsiveness and comprehension of the market.

[F.O.Bean]

No matter how you look at it, FLAC will always allow double the recording, double the fun!     
An excellent include, I'm seriously looking at the SD702 now.

It's not just the FLAC, its the responsiveness and comprehension of the market.

do it! I LOVE the MBHO>722 combo. its super small with the actives/603a's and the 722 is the perfect preamp/adc/ for the Ho's search for my 7/14/2007 allgood recordings of the MBHO ka500hn hypers>722 recordings. I think they are def some of my finest festival recordings to date And I have recorded ALOT of festivals