Topic: Poll: Are you sorry you bought A Microtrack?

[e1ghtyf1ve]

The only reason the meter thing bothers me is because they'd be my only meters - I'd rely on the MT's A/Ds.

...and for that much of your hard earned cash, you should have the right to use it as it's marketed - a complete 24-bit recorder in the palm of your hand.  I hope it will be in the future, but right now?  I'm not so naive to believe that a commercial company should behave morally, but come on.  There are laws against false advertising.  These ought to be strictly enforced.  *Wakes up*

[Scooter]

Give Maudio a break man.  Everything will be sorted out soon.  I wouldn't go so far as to say false advertising.  That's a bit much.  The only thing I would gripe about is the fact that they didn't come right out and say that the phantom was only 30v instead of 48v.

[F.O.Bean]

Jerry's dead, phish is done, and the MT's are garbage

move on.....

 

all of these one million MT threads just turn into people that bought them justifying the purchase and people that dont own them thinking they are useless and bitching about them(I'm the latter)

it comes down to this:

WE ALL HAVE GREAT RECORDER options right now, any of these devices beat spending 750 dollars on a new d-8

[OOK]

Jerry's dead, phish is done, and the MT's are garbage

move on.....

 

all of these one million MT threads just turn into people that bought them justifying the purchase and people that dont own them thinking they are useless and bitching about them(I'm the latter)

it comes down to this:

WE ALL HAVE GREAT RECORDER options right now, any of these devices beat spending 750 dollars on a new d-8

Testify!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[chitaper]

WE ALL HAVE GREAT RECORDER options right now, any of these devices beat spending 750 dollars on a new d-8

As for product support, Sony made a recorder withe digi I/O but never made a cable that would do it! It was only available in after-market sources, that was a serious flaw in the D8 IMHO.

[Kindguy]

I should have made "I don't own one" choice in the poll. I bet a lot of the yes answers are people who never even touched one. If so this poll sucks & tells me nothing.

[desertsky]

After last weekend, I couldn't be happier with my new DPA 4061's > MMA6000 pre > MT stealth rig!   I recorded my very first two U2 shows last Friday and Saturday nights in Las Vegas at the MGM Grand.  Friday night FOB, dead center.  Saturday night in the seats at the back of the arena, a few rows off the floor just to left of the mixing board.  Both recordings turned out great, at least to my ears!   I recorded at 24/48.  The only glitch, which happened Friday night, was my fault.  I somehow accidentally hit the L/M/H switch and set it to H as I was stopping/restarting the recording before the encore to avoid the 2GB limit.  Probably as I was sliding the MT back into my pocket.   So the last 4 songs were heavily clipped.  Once they add the auto-restart feature in the next firmware upgrade to address the 2GB limit, that should help prevent any more mishaps like this one.  In the meantime, I now have a glob of epoxy in that L/M/H switch to keep it from moving from the L position.

Here are some sample FLAC (24/48) from the two U2 Vegas recordings:

11/4  "Love and Peace or Else.flac"  -  http://s6.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=23TIDW0ZT4GHB0L0VSA4XOCRMI
11/4 "Sunday Bloody Sunday.flac" - http://s29.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2Z8GWM21XH1IH0TVJSIWTKLLQH
11/5 "Bullet the Blue Sky.flac" - http://s32.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0RH737Z4PS9DF0RTLXWOLH6YJG
11/5 "In a Little While (wth Brandon Flowers of The Killers).flac" - http://s28.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=30QS4X9LN1PQU281OQ0NM0ULYD

[it-goes-to-eleven]

Epoxy..  I guess it depends on what you tape.  In some cases, I'll need that extra (hiss laden) gain.  But you have the killer DPA pre, so you won't.

Another option to securing the switches it is to break or cut a piece of q-tip shaft and stick that in the gap and then gaff over it.  More secure then just taping.

I recently added some little squares of gaffer tape to the corners of my MT. The thing is slippery and smooth, so the tape makes it easier to grip.

We now return you to the MT bitch-fest 

[sleepypedro]

Sony made a recorder withe digi I/O but never made a cable that would do it! It was only available in after-market sources, that was a serious flaw in the D8 IMHO.

i am hardly a sony apologist, but your statement is totally false.  they made coax > 7pin cables, optical > 7pin, mini-optical > 7pin, and probably more that i never owned.

[Diver4243]

I saw a few comments about folks holding off on 24 bits and 96 sampling because their computers wont' handle it or something. What inhibitors are there to using these settings? Can't I just records at these (I know the files will be much larger) and then dump the files to my hard drive (win xp) and burn them to a cd with windows media player or something? maybe windows media player can't handle these settings?

[Brian]

I saw a few comments about folks holding off on 24 bits and 96 sampling because their computers wont' handle it or something. What inhibitors are there to using these settings? Can't I just records at these (I know the files will be much larger) and then dump the files to my hard drive (win xp) and burn them to a cd with windows media player or something? maybe windows media player can't handle these settings?

you would have to have one slow computer to not be able to handle 2 channel 24/96 files

for simple transfer and archival burns, i'd say any computer with enough HD space and a burner would do.

[desertsky]

I saw a few comments about folks holding off on 24 bits and 96 sampling because their computers wont' handle it or something. What inhibitors are there to using these settings? Can't I just records at these (I know the files will be much larger) and then dump the files to my hard drive (win xp) and burn them to a cd with windows media player or something? maybe windows media player can't handle these settings?

You can take advantage of 24 bit recordings with a standard dvd player hooked up to a decent stereo system.  I burned the two U2 Vegas shows I recorded in 24/48 to an audio dvd using Audio DVD Creator, http://www.audio-dvd-creator.com/
A standard dvd will accept up 24/96 PCM audio.  Audio DVD Creator will automatically create the menus for selecting the recording you want to hear and jumping to specific tracks.  And your recordings will be gapless.
 

[Steve J]

Overall, I think the MT will work for a lot of people; and if M-Audio comes through with the firmware changes, I might even say it'll work for most people. However, I sent mine back.

My intended purpose for the MT was as a 2-channel 24/96 backup unit (digi in), not as a primary recording device. I think the SD722, or more likely the new Tascam CF recorder, would be more appropriate for what I'm trying to do. The MT is still pretty neat for what it can do; but I couldn't foresee many instances where I'd be using it. I decided that the $$ could be applied to something I would use a lot...like a new set of monitors!

[chitaper]

Sony made a recorder withe digi I/O but never made a cable that would do it! It was only available in after-market sources, that was a serious flaw in the D8 IMHO.

i am hardly a sony apologist, but your statement is totally false.  they made coax > 7pin cables, optical > 7pin, mini-optical > 7pin, and probably more that i never owned.

I'm talking I/O cables - I'm not aware of any Sony cables that did this. I have a coax > 7-pin Sony cable, but there's no end for output. As in Input/Output

[chitaper]

they certainly made I/O (both In and Out on one 7pin head) versions of the optical cables...cant say for sure on the coax versions myself as i always used the oade version

boogie

That's right, they did make a optical I/O. Not much use for that one though, which is why Oade, Sound Pro and Core Sound started making their own coax I/O.

And let's not forget the wonderful SCMS "feature" of the D8/D7.