i think the only guy running it stock is MattinSTL on here. but he only uses it for voice or something. line in from the v3 or possibly the brick would be fine for the time being i reckon. until the mods are ready at least.
Sorry I haven't been on the forum much in the past week... I had a video project due and that got all my time. I just wanted to drop by and add my .02 to this discussion since my previous posts. (I can see that RDunn is really doing everybody a service with info and pics
I happened to get one of the 671's that hasn't had the firmware update yet, but Marantz gave me an RA# to have it taken care of... I didn't send it back yet because it sounds so good at 16/48. Earlier in this thread I asked RDunn about hiss issues and he said he wasn't getting hardly any... which had me worried, but I was only trying 24/96. When I switched it to 16/48 the hiss virtually dissappeared. The easy way to know if you need the firmware update is when you go into the quality presets and switch from 16 to 24 it will give a second option of 24 shown as 24e... this is the updated 24 format that the windows programs recognize and I assume that my hiss issue will be fixed with that update as well. Like I said I'll have to post back for that... since my video project is done I'll send it out tomorrow.
Other then that I'd just like to say that I'm absolutely ELATED with this thing. It's everything I wanted and more... I'm running it stock with mic-in sometimes and FP-24 (mixpre) line-in others. I've used it with Oktava and AKG 480b so far... and it flat out rocks. Some things which won't be as useful to you guys that are killer for me is the ability to listen to any part of a recording WHILE you are still recording the current event! You can listen to the opener while it's recording the encore! Another cool trick is the silent start... again for many of you guys this will be worthless, but when you combine the fact that it records audio from 2 to 4 seconds BEFORE you push record... along with the silent start... this thing can be abandoned and it will just sit there and switch from record to record-pause so that it edits all the silence out of an interview... or some other special use where there could be long pauses that you don't want. You can even change the number of seconds of silence that it allows before pausing the record.
Sure that may not be of use recording music... but as RDunn also mentioned, the thing does everything seamlessly... you can split files any way you want or even split 'em on the fly or you can even tell the machine where to split them ahead of time... simply put, this thing rocks. I'm loving it. Running it stock it even sounds great! Popping the on the FP-24 makes it sound virtually transparent to my ears.
Is it an SD722? NO... would I trade my rig for the Sound Devices rig? Hell YES. But I do think this is a really pro answer for those that can deal with the size and plan to add a pre.
Obviously I'd predict that the ACM 671 will be damn near the ultimate all-in-one. I'd love to hear one... the only reason I chose the stock route is 'cause I wanted the mixpre in the chain... my normal use has the 671 and FP24 in a bag with a wireless transmitter also... then the soundguy ONLY runs the levels at the FP24... everything else is left to do it's job with no attention needed. No touching anything means no fudging anything up during a shoot. As long as he hears sound and I hear sound we both know everything's good.
If I got this thing for music I'd be hard-pressed to find a reason not to go with the ACM version and call it done. (although as you can tell I'm totally satisfied with the rig I've got set up too)