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Gear / Technical Help => Battery Boxes, Preamps, Mixers, ADCs, and Processors => Topic started by: mirth on May 23, 2003, 12:03:45 PM
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Anybody ever hear of this product? Seems to have some decent features...
http://www.altoproaudio.com/products.asp?cat=8&type=17
Gotta select the Alpha MICtube from the dropdown, no sane way to link to it otherwise.
Opinions?
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Looks nice. Finally, someone other than an Oade Brother puts the inputs on the front of the box. Did you find out a price?
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Yeah, best I've found so far is ~$80 w/free shipping.
Wonder, though... They say it takes AC input. Is it still possible to build/buy a battery box for this for field recording?
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Yes it is possible, but it is a Bitch!!
and you'll be carrying around batteries like you have an apogee ;)
bush
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What, so you're saying that all I'd have to do is just build a SLA? What about the whole AC input, or are you saying that I'd have to cut up the power adapter cord (assuming the adapter is doing the AC/DC conversion)?
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no, you have to build a portable ac outlet.
you know the little convertors used for running ac power through the cig lighter in your car.
in my experience, and believe me i gave it an honest effort, the convertor run on a battery pack is very flaky...
in 6 months of trying i never got consistent results.
some of the problems i had were buzzing in the recordings, random dropouts caused by a flicker in the convertor, and just flat out inconsistent battery life.
i'm sure if you carried a big ass 250 w convertor and 3-4 12v sla's you could be consistent with it, but screw that!!!
bush
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so you're saying that I'd have to get an ac/dc inverter w/cigarette adapter & build the battery like anybody else's SLA setup?
That doesn't sound _too_ bad.
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yeah pretty much...like i said, it did not work well for me. this pretty much says how i feel about it >:(
the failures outweighed the successes and i had to give up and move on.
Good Luck ;)
bush
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The whole power thing sucks because i would love to have that. Looks nice but rigging up all that power just looks painful. +T for pointing that out.