I've owned my DR-680 for over a year and am only now playing with it for the first time and considering using it tomorrow night at a show. I've been playing around with it for an hour or so, connected my mics to channels 1/2 and connected the outputs of my HD-P2 to channels 3/4 to play the role of my SBD feed. I think I've got most of it figured out, but there are a couple things I can't figure out, and I'm short on time for navigating all of the threads. Apologies in advance if my questions are discussed elsewhere.
1. I'm using a 16 GB card. During my tests, all the tracks were armed for recording (by default), and I hit the "display" button to check the available recording time. It reported 2:04:09. That's not enough time, so I assumed I just needed to tell it not to record channels 5/6 and the mix. I unarmed those tracks, started recording again, hit "display", and, again, it reported 2:04:09. My calculations suggest I should be getting much more time than that, so what's going on? The card is formatted.
2. To adjust the record levels, it makes me adjust each channel of each stereo pair individually. I seem to recall discussion of these being able to be linked somehow, but a quick search turned up nothing, presumably because I'm not recalling the name of the function and am not searching correctly.
These are the only problems I can find right now. Thanks in advance for any guidance.