Thanks for all the battery feedback...haven't decided my next course of action, but I think I can get ~3.5-4 hours with all 4 channels going, powered, with my current dvd battery. That should really be enough for me, for now, as I don't think I'll be running that configuration very often.
To that point, I recorded w/ a board feed for the first time in forever, sunday night. I had considered running the board into a R07, and using the R44 to power 4 different mics. Scrapped that plan ultimately, as I wanted to use the same recorder for both the mics and the board feed.
Pretty pleased with the result:
https://archive.org/details/ryleywalker2022-03-06.cm33.sbd.detroitlightningI hadn't synced up sources like this in a while, so it took some time to get it right (same recorder is doable for me, but when we start talking about different clocks, stretching, etc. i start to lose a bit of interest). Found a few sections of the wav, and utilized number of samples to get as close as I could. Tried it out with a few different calculations, and ultimately think I got it pretty good. Had a really nicely mixed board feed, so ran with that as a primary, then mics at about -6db to fill things in. Anyway, feeling more confident about it now - hope to have more chances to do this on a regular basis. Having a taping friendly band, and a really nice/helpful sound engineer really goes a long way...
From a workflow standpoint, I did the following:
-24/48 recording
-Did all editing in the 32 bit realm
-Synced up timing first
-Did edits (envelope to lower one section, mix & render, normalize, balance gain between sources, mix down to one stereo track, fades, export to wav)
Anyway, just wanted to share! Any thoughts, feedback, critiques are welcomed! I've had the R44 for a few years now, but still haven't done a ton of recording with multiple sources - so always looking to get better & figure out the best process for me (with my skill level & tolerance for post production...)