Topic: M-Audio MicroTrack 2496 - *actual* real-life experiences thread

[chitaper]

bling!  got my shipping notifier from cascade

Same here, bling, bling !

I'm seething w/ jealousy. My real-life experience is an email from Natalia at DJMart saying my MT won't ship until the 5th. 

[udovdh]

I just posted pics of a dongle I made to send my 4061's into the TRS inputs while drawing power from the 1/8 5v.  No more bbox! 


http://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=51031.0

Great!
So this means the this 5V is always on when recording from 1/4"?
The 5V is of good enough quality for using it to power the mics? (no deteriorated SNR etc?)

[rdvdijk]

The 5V is of good enough quality for using it to power the mics? (no deteriorated SNR etc?)

I recently learned that the 4060/4061 are designed for 5V, so this should be ideal..

4060 specs, 4061 specs

Roel

[udovdh]

The 5V is of good enough quality for using it to power the mics? (no deteriorated SNR etc?)

I recently learned that the 4060/4061 are designed for 5V, so this should be ideal..

Ok, thanks, but the 5V has no power supply ripple or similar? (from power conevrtors?)

[SonicSound]

Well I don't know how I did it, but I fixed whatever it was wrong.  It's charging right now.  As soon as it's done I'll do some SPDIF tests.

I had the same problem with mine (out of the box) also.

[wbrisette]

Does anybody how owns one of these have access to a PreAmp or anything else that might produce a real AES digital signal? I'm really curious to know what happens when you feed it an AES signal.

Wayne

[Todd R]

Does anybody how owns one of these have access to a PreAmp or anything else that might produce a real AES digital signal? I'm really curious to know what happens when you feed it an AES signal.

Wayne

Covered at the top of pg 22 of this thread.  No problem for me for either AES pro signal or AES consumer signal, coming from the V3.

[The Kilted Taper]

Has anyone tried running AT853Rx's through this guy using phantom?

[MattinSTL]

I haven't found this info on the forum, but can the MicroTrack stay one "forever" with the adapter plugged in? As in a non-stealth situation with AC power on tap? Or does it still run the battery down eventually... shut down... and need to be internally recharged again?

[udovdh]

Did anyone here do some measurements on the 5V off the 1/8" jack?
It's slightly below 5V (4.5 I read?), but how clean is it? Ripple?
What load could it take?
Etc..

[MattinSTL]

Maybe I phrased my question wrong... or the typo for "on" being "one" did it.

Can you run the Microtrack on AC power indefiinitely? Or is the little charger/adapter thing ONLY good for charging?

[neutrino]

Did anyone here do some measurements on the 5V off the 1/8" jack?
It's slightly below 5V (4.5 I read?), but how clean is it? Ripple?
What load could it take?
Etc..

Mine reads just under 5volts as well, but I don't have a o-scope fast enough to tell if there is a ripple.
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[pgoelz]

Maybe I phrased my question wrong... or the typo for "on" being "one" did it.

Can you run the Microtrack on AC power indefiinitely? Or is the little charger/adapter thing ONLY good for charging?

I am not positive but I suspect that the MT runs off batteries full time and the AC adapter charges it.  I base this on the fact that out of the box, my MT would not even power up at first until it charged the battery a bit. 

That said, I suspect that the charge current is greater than the discharge current so once you have some charge on the battery, the thing can probably stay on and AC powered forever. 

Paul

[jbraveman]

I formatted a 4gb hitachi microdrive and have the record setting set to accept spdif 16 bit.  It says recording time available 1:57?   It stopped at 1 hour during the first run 
Anybody see this before?

[neutrino]

Did you check the file on a PC to see what bit and sample rate was actually recorded. If it is accurate to the settings you had on the MT, I would most likely think it was just a spidf lock-up error. Hopefully the new firmware will be released soon to smoothen things about a bit.
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