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Gear / Technical Help => Recording Gear => Topic started by: Gutbucket on November 05, 2009, 08:52:34 PM
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What would you really like in a recorder made to your own specs - it's design not determined by the ordinarily overriding forces of marketing and design for a large target audience?
Keep it technically feasible.
A few features I'd like in my fantasy machine:
- 6-channel, 20bit/48kHz pocket sized recorder
- great analog front end & ADC
- uses standard rechargeable batteries
- records to two SDHC slots (so if a second card is inserted, the two can be either sequentially or simultaneously written (maybe a mode where the cards are simultaneously written until the 1st fills, to provide redundancy, after which the 2nd is overwritten for increased storage space)
- a single multi-pin, locking mini-XLR or equivalent input jack with various multi-conductor plug-in pigtails user adapted for various input configurations: digital, analog, XLR, mini-XLR, microdot, mini-jack, 1/4" TRS, RCA, Lemo or whatever (plus sync)
- full 9vdc plug-in power, phantom option with larger external battery pack (to keep it reasonable)
- same single multi-pin, locking mini-XLR or equivalent deal for output (plus HDMI)
- FLAC encode/decode, Dolby-HD/DTS-HD bitstream output encoding
- control + monitoring via a wrist watch, phone, or dedicated remote
- good headphone monitoring, software switchable between channels, with surround virtualization
- internal digital mixer with level, pan, mute, solo, delay and eq on each channel
- writes a simultaneous CUE file that lists markers, gain changes, limiter actions, etc.
- limiter that marks the CUE file with the position and amount of gain reduction applied so its effect can be reversed in the DAW after a headroom adjustment
- timer/clock based record and file split option (either during or after recording)
- fade in/out at rec start/stop option
- possible sync using cell phone or other wireless network link
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four track recording
sweet battery life
looks like a cell phone
built in DPAs and Schoeps
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:)
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y13/mojowill480/Dreamrig.jpg)
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f'n HYSTERICAL
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@mojowill: all those inputs should accept digital and analog. Really don't need output, just putout.
I'd spend all my time licking at the levels.
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that is hilarious mojowill! who is that? it kinda looks like kate from lost
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I think Mojo about summed it up :)
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Somebody has some spare time on his hands.
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that is hilarious mojowill! who is that? it kinda looks like kate from lost
elle macpherson
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This thread has great potential for a similar design to this....
(http://pagesperso-orange.fr/Jas-n-Geoff/Geoff/homer.jpg)
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Are you tired of people questioning your sexuality?
Thundercougarfalconbird!
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You fellers really let the imagination seep right out of the box.
I dig the miniature 'repoman' air freshener in the homer-mobile, but I'd want my imaginary Elle to move around a bit, not just stand statue-like recording. Besides that's way too distracting, I'd never quit fiddling with my setup, my recordings would suck and I wouldn’t care. Perhaps there's a bit too much product convergence going on there? Sometimes I just want my phone to work as a phone. Why waste that platform with superfluous features like audio recording?
I'd rather let Elle ride into the section bareback on my giraffe recorder:
(http://www.veeriku.tartu.ee/~ppensa/giraffe3.jpg)
Or better yet, on one of those fairytale horses with the built-in mic stand on their head:
(http://www.artfagcity.com/wordpress_core/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/unicorn.jpg)
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LOL!
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I like my Hi-MD.. in fact I only stealth for a number of reasons.
I'd like to have a Hi-MD that..
•can record in 24 bit and 48K Hz resolution
•uses MiniDiscs that are capable of 8 GB
•has reliable VU-Meters
•backlight screen
..but it's my dream, though.
If only Sony makes a 2 GB MD..
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All of these designs would be very expensive. The giraffe would probably be the best budget option . . .
On a serious note, the locking circular connector the OP required for that much I/O, plus the pigtail cable(s), would likely cost a couple hundred bucks.
Understood, and I did consider that. Yet a couple hundred bucks for a feature that really fits my usage is nothing compared to giraffe stabling, feeding and vet bills, much less keeping a super model contented. ;)
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A small flash memory based recorder with the preamp quality of the Sony RH-1 Hi-MD or M1 DAT.
We can all dream. ::)
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A sound device 222....
Built out of the same materials...as the 7xx series with 3 inputs...
one 1/8" stereo mic input with the smallest qulaity pre's available with a menu driven variable plug in power from 2volts to 12 volts...
one 1'8" stereo line input
1 RCA digital input all across the top of the recorder...
records at from 16 bit to 24 bit...44. to 96k
two smaller input controls on top next to the inputs..one controlling level the other balance..
the recorder would be the size of a pack of smokes
get 10 hours on a pair of AA....
same display but Dimable(off to brightest setting) LEDs across the top beneath the inputs so when you look in your shirt pocket you can see where you levels are at..
record, stop, Fw, Rw buttons with a lock out switch....beneath the display...
Record to Compact Flash UDMA compatibility cards...
I would pay somewhere around 800to 1000$......realistic price..
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How about a recorder with XLR mic/line inputs, +48, pre and adc equal to the V2/PSP-2 (with a switch to go from solid-state to transformers) and Sonic AD2K+, 24/96 capable, and 40gb of storage. As small as possible, please and how about an additional unbalanced line-in.
All I really want is a flash-based recorder with a coax input that is the size of the Microtrack - that isn't a Microtrack and offers TRUE seamless file splits.
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A 744 recorder as exists today with the following adjustments
- with user defined levels (the 788 has them, bastards).
- AA based batteries, or at least something more reliable and as cheap or more so than the current Lion L batts. A 9v external supply would be nice, but I'll compromise.
- Switchable standard SD7XX A/D, Apogee A/D (inc limiter & compressor functionality from the mini-me), Sonic AD2k A/D. (controlled via either hard-switch or software setting).
- V2/V3 preamps w/ switch activated transformers.
- 4 P48 inputs.
Everything else is fine, you can change the internal hdd out to a ssd currently, so you end up with less power draw and essentially 2 CF cards for redundancy so thats why thats not there. Ultimately, the power elements I'd ditch if it meant it happened. I'd pay the current SD744 rate for one.