Topic: M Audio Flash Tracker Recorder Update

[JasonSobel]

BINGO!

Works like a charm.  Amazing that the Marantz guys, who knew about this problem when I called them a few weeks back, have not got this fix.

+T for sure.

Jeff

glad I could help out.  still a pain to open and resave each file, but it sure beats real-time transfers.

[udovdh]

Does anyone know if this will have a remote to control recording?

Would be great, just like the Sonys have and like the upcoming Sonosax. Doubt it though. 

[Nick's Picks]

If I owned a V3 or MME or something, one of these would be in my bag.
lets see....
V3 = $1500
Maudio = $350
4gbs of flash = $400

or a 722.
take your pick.  I guess i'd go w/the 722 at this price range just for hdd space.

[keepongoin]

there is a V3 over on the oade board for 1000 bucks, nick (not mine, but i saw it there, so caveat emptor)

[Ed.]

ya know what stinks most about these...when i can finally afford to buy it, my jb3 is going to be worth like $20 cuz tapers won't want them anymore.

perhaps then i'll start using it for an mp3 player.  *shrug*

[keepongoin]

i don't think this will affect the JB3 prices, really. buying into 4 GB of compact flash media for a unit like this twice the price of a JB3 still.  Maybe in a year things will be different, but if everyting works out I will have sold all of my JB3s except one of them by then. 

[Todd R]

If I owned a V3 or MME or something, one of these would be in my bag.
lets see....
V3 = $1500
Maudio = $350
4gbs of flash = $400

or a 722.
take your pick.  I guess i'd go w/the 722 at this price range just for hdd space.

The 722 is definitely an option.  But if you already have a V3, you're looking at selling it used for $1000-1200 and then needing to buy a new 722 for ~$2400(?) fully equiped.  And you can get a 4gb Kingston CF for $275 (and only $150 for a 4gb microdrive, though I don't know if that works or what the battery life implications are).  

So:

new 722 after selling used V3 for $1200 = ~$1200 out of pocket cost

or existing V3 with new MAudio ($350) + 4GB CF card ($300) + 30GB OTG drive for CF transfers and increased storage ($80) = $730 out of pocket

Bottom line, if you've already got a V3 you'd like to use, the V3 + MAudio package is a lot cheaper.  Not to much terribly worse in terms of size (assuming you're doing open taping or even fob).  And then there is the sound, if you already like the V3 sound, why change to something else?  

Not at all trying to start another one of these 722 battles, but I've been going through all this myself recently and the V3+MAudio combo has a lot going for it.  Really depends on how you value different things and what you're starting point is.

[Ed.]

yeah, i'm sure i won't be the first kid on the block to have one of these, but i'm hoping to grab one by the end of the year.  hopefully the resale value on the jb3 won't drop too much by then.

[kfrinkle]

yeah, if these new m-audio devices are all they sound like they are gonna be, my JB3s willbe delegated to glorified mp3 players from then on out.

[Ed.]

why not just use the m-audio recorder to record at 16/44.1 if you don't feel the show is 24/96 worthy.  if you ask me, if the m-audio does a good enuf job recording and is smaller than the jb3, there's no real sense in keeping the jb3 for recording.  if the m-audio does everything its supposed to, recording to two devices seems a bit excessive to me.

however, with all those optical mod v3's floating around and the m-audio going back to coax, i think the jb3 will be come the patch rat special.

[Nick's Picks]

I was thinking in terms of starting from scrach when I was doing my V3/Maudio vs. 722 price check.

[Genghis Cougar Mellen Khan]

If I owned a V3 or MME or something, one of these would be in my bag.
lets see....
V3 = $1500
Maudio = $350
4gbs of flash = $400

or a 722.
take your pick.  I guess i'd go w/the 722 at this price range just for hdd space.

Didn't you give the R4 a good review? Same HD space, 4 not 2 channels for $1000 less than the 722.  If you're talking CF capabilities, it's a different story.

[The Kilted Taper]

So, in preparation for this in stealthing situations, will the TRS input be mono, stereo, or will there be 2 monos? I guess it's all speculation right now as no official announcement has been made.  I'll need to get my XLR ends down to TRS and would love to see if Marc can make somekind of interconnect.

[Genghis Cougar Mellen Khan]

So, in preparation for this in stealthing situations, will the TRS input be mono, stereo, or will there be 2 monos? I guess it's all speculation right now as no official announcement has been made.  I'll need to get my XLR ends down to TRS and would love to see if Marc can make somekind of interconnect.

Excuse my ignorance, but what's a TRS input?

[nic]

Excuse my ignorance, but what's a TRS input?

think of a big headphone cable plug...thats 1/4" TRS