« Reply #234 on: October 01, 2005, 10:57:00 AM »
RDunn... this is still the bone stock machine we talked about before right?
I finally got my 671. I'm just using this for location sound (dialog for video)... my setup is 480b/ck63>fp24>671 running 24/96.
While I'm really happy with it I'm not 100% happy. I'm surprised that I can still hear some low level hiss with this setup.
Try taking your machine into a quiet room or studio and crank that rig up... get your phones up too. What do you think? Is this still considered to be really quiet on hiss? I don't know why Doug took two of his recordings down... but he had one of the pmd660 with no mic and gain maxxed... the clip went ACM, Basic, and Stock... and you could clearly here the hiss come in just a tiny bit on the first jump... and lots when it went to stock. What I'm hearing isn't as bad as the stock 660... but it's more then I expected.
I definitely got the feeling I should have just got a modded 671 from Doug in the first place.
Also I should add that in this machine I'm surprised that running it line-in with the FP24 doesn't make more of an improvement... it's better, but it's not even as dramatic as the difference in Doug's ACM versus stock 660.
I know I have a lot of points going in this post... but I really feel any comments you could make would be very helpful to people trying to decide on a 671... and the ACM 671 from Doug.
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I didn't know there was a problem until I saw myself sitting there with a glass of tap water, eating an oregano sandwich on a two week old hamburger bun... and the only thing going through my mind was, "God I love this new shotgun!"
Current mics: 480b/ck61/ck63/ck69, Rode NT1000, Oktava mk012 hyper/cardioid, MKE-2, D230, RE50.
Past mics: MKH-416, AT4073a, ME-66, NT2000, NTK, NT3, TR50, M-150, M58, ATR55, MS907.