I use a 12ah 12v SLA and it works great - since I only carry the hs-p82 the battery and occasionally one of my tube PS's other than mics and cables its not too bad - I am going to grab a lifepo4 SLA replacement batt soon though
whats the running time on that? Looks like 5 or 6 hours if I did the math right. That actually has potential. Sure, the weight blows, but add a few more pounds and I'll just use a little suitcase wagon to get to from the car or apt to gigs anyway.
There is a point at which
carrying weight is stupidly farcical and I think thats about 1/4th to 1/3rd of your body weight.
The unit is around 10lbs, the portabrace bag is another 4. Cables/mics are another 5lbs, that leaves a few pounds before I start walking with a 25 degree list to port or employing a sherpa.
You don't need external pre's or AD's with it the internals are excellent
lol, true, I wouldn't have bought it if the signal path wasn't good enough. There is basically zero chance of me running an external preamp to replace existing channels on a recorder with more than 6 isolated inputs
or costs 4 digits. I can use my usbpre2 as a clock sync with it and daisy chain another 2 or 4 if I need the extras, but starting with 8 should suffice on all but 2 of the bands I'm targeting with this.
You don't need external pre's or AD's with it the internals are excellent
So tempted.
Do you need the extra channels or is that just gear lust? I wanted the channels; I can easily think of occasions where I'll run 6-8, and a couple where I'll want to gang another recorder to it for 9+ and figured I only needed to haul the gear to/from, but that space wouldn't be an issue during the gig. For those occasions, I'm keeping my usbpre2>pcm-d50 run-n-gun setup.
edit: corrected question above.