Topic: New improved microtrack (MT II)

[Brian Skalinder]

On the other hand, the MT2496 is the only 24-bit bit-bucket at a very low price point and quite obviously a purely consumer-level unit, so to expect top-notch features, performance, tech support, and on-going product improvement isn't exactly realistic, despite the hype.  Oh, and it works very well as a bit-bucket for a lot of people.

[anhisr]

small bit bucket was all I was looking for.  Every problem I have had, only a couple, were my fault.  The biggest thing the new one does for me is the 2gb split. 

[guysonic]

Like I've posted before, the MT started out as a good to excellent choice of circuit components and adequate software (with the upgrades) to get the job done very well for low cost. 

But the big bites out of the analog performance (the real sucky part for me) was the circuit board design (layout/trace paths/shielding) that polluted the product with more than a reasonable amount of toxic high frequency switching noise from the power supply sections. 

I fault M-audio by not tossing out the many thousands of PCB already purchased for the estimated life of the first series of production runs and re-engineer (refine) the finalized product to reduce if not eliminate this one shortcoming.   

Hoping the MT2 is just that refinement coming at maybe a bit too late a date for some

[willndmb]

http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/MicroTrackII-main.html

[JoeKiller]

http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/MicroTrackII-main.html

Aweee shit, it's for real now.

[gmm6797]

any word on seamless breaks?

[Rick]

any word on seamless breaks?

"new features include extended input gain range, analog input limiter and seamless recording of files beyond 2GB in size"


Taken from: http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/MicroTrackII-main.html

[kfrinkle]

why the fuck can they not make the MT -v1 do seamless recordings?

[it-goes-to-eleven]

Because then you wouldn't buy the v2.

[kfrinkle]

Because then you wouldn't buy the v2.

Well shit, I would buy the V2 just cuz its black y'all... Cant they see that?

[OFOTD]

why the fuck can they not make the MT -v1 do seamless recordings?

http://taperssection.com/index.php/topic,88437.msg1186406.html#msg1186406

[Arni99]

The MT II specifications say MIC-IN provides 5V plugin-power.
If this is true, battery-boxes would no longer be needed as 5V are sufficient also for high SPL regarding distortion capability as Chris Church measured...no distortion-difference between 5V and 9V powering.
My DPA 4061 would be glad too and for stealthers 1 part less to worry about where to hide all the stuff .

[willndmb]

The MT II specifications say MIC-IN provides 5V plugin-power.
If this is true, battery-boxes would no longer be needed as 5V are sufficient also for high SPL regarding distortion capability as Chris Church measured...no distortion-difference between 5V and 9V powering.
My DPA 4061 would be glad too and for stealthers 1 part less to worry about where to hide all the stuff .

depends on how it sounds though
i know some people who go 1/4 in from their 1/8 battery box because the 1/8 jack sucks ass compaired to the 1/4

but you are right, it would be sweet not to need a extra piece of gear

[illconditioned]

The MT II specifications say MIC-IN provides 5V plugin-power.
If this is true, battery-boxes would no longer be needed as 5V are sufficient also for high SPL regarding distortion capability as Chris Church measured...no distortion-difference between 5V and 9V powering.
My DPA 4061 would be glad too and for stealthers 1 part less to worry about where to hide all the stuff .

depends on how it sounds though
i know some people who go 1/4 in from their 1/8 battery box because the 1/8 jack sucks ass compaired to the 1/4

but you are right, it would be sweet not to need a extra piece of gear

That is the main thing, not having another piece of gear to carry, and with a battery box, not worrying about that battery.  It will last forever, but you always worry when it will run out of juice.

I've been running a lot of my mics directly off plug in power on the Edirol R09.  That has only 2.5v of power, so you have to be careful about the circuit, but 5v of power is great.  That would work with any mic, including DPA 406x.

  Richard

[Arni99]

some dimerecordings were made with dpa406x and r09 plugin-power only and they sound crap for dpa recordings. you can here the mics suffered severely from underpowering.