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Title: Sound Devices 302 field production mixer?
Post by: jessedscott on January 12, 2005, 10:54:45 AM
Anyone using this?     http://www.sounddevices.com/products/302master.htm


This has got to be nice to have. Kinda a steep price, might as well buy a V3. It has to add some great detail....
Title: Re: Sound Devices 302 field production mixer?
Post by: wbrisette on January 12, 2005, 01:04:31 PM
Anyone using this?     http://www.sounddevices.com/products/302master.htm


This has got to be nice to have. Kinda a steep price, might as well buy a V3. It has to add some great detail....

I bought the Wendt X4 over the SD only because it offered me 4 channels and was actually less expensive. Now that I'm running the Deva IV, I'm actually selling the X4, so if you're looking for a mixer, let me know and I'll make you deal on a nice 4 channel mixer.

Wayne
Title: Re: Sound Devices 302 field production mixer?
Post by: ford prefect on January 14, 2005, 09:49:36 PM
Anyone using this?     http://www.sounddevices.com/products/302master.htm

This has got to be nice to have. Kinda a steep price, might as well buy a V3. It has to add some great detail....

Although a V3 is only 2 channels...  :) 
Title: Re: Sound Devices 302 field production mixer?
Post by: ts on January 20, 2005, 10:24:12 AM
And the 302 has no a/d. But it is a nice small, AA battery unit, if your'e looking to do a 3 channel mix. I've thought about one myself. I lot of folks use the MX100, but if your'e mics require phantom, you need to power the mics before the MX, which means more gear. A 302 and an SBM1 might make a nice small rig for the 3 channel folks. I made some nice 2 channel tapes with a MP2>SBM1.
Title: Re: Sound Devices 302 field production mixer?
Post by: spyder9 on September 09, 2005, 04:38:24 PM
Anybody running one of these yet?
Title: Re: Sound Devices 302 field production mixer?
Post by: Ray76 on September 09, 2005, 07:11:38 PM
Anybody running one of these yet?

Ill be runnin the wendt real soon.  ;)

I was damn near close to buyin one of them SDs though. Wayne came through though. His tapes with the wendt speak volumes.
Title: Re: Sound Devices 302 field production mixer?
Post by: larrysellers on September 12, 2005, 02:11:52 PM
I have been dreaming of a 302 for awhile, but even the used ones on ebay sell for upwards of $900. Looks to me like a 3 channel mp2 but I am no tech expert.
Title: Re: Sound Devices 302 field production mixer?
Post by: wbrisette on September 12, 2005, 02:19:42 PM
I have been dreaming of a 302 for awhile, but even the used ones on ebay sell for upwards of $900. Looks to me like a 3 channel mp3 but I am no tech expert.

That's pretty much it. ENG mixers aren't cheap. The X4 new cost me around $1800 or so. The X2 which I ran prior to that ran around $800. The beauty behind these mixers is they all use virtually no power, all run off AA batteries (usually) and are very hard to destroy.

Wayne
Title: Re: Sound Devices 302 field production mixer?
Post by: Ray76 on September 12, 2005, 02:40:04 PM
I have been dreaming of a 302 for awhile, but even the used ones on ebay sell for upwards of $900. Looks to me like a 3 channel mp3 but I am no tech expert.

I keep seeing the AT ENG mixers pop up on ebay(forget the model) but they go very quick..they are around 500 bucks or so. 4 channels..2 outs. and yep wayne...this looks indestructible..
Title: Re: Sound Devices 302 field production mixer?
Post by: wbrisette on September 30, 2005, 05:22:05 PM
total nOOb question and I'm too lazy right now to do the leg work... what does ENG stand for, Engineering?

ENG = Electronic News Gathering

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_News_Gathering

Wayne
Title: Re: Sound Devices 302 field production mixer?
Post by: oleg on October 01, 2005, 04:40:32 AM
Anybody running one of these yet?
yes sometimes as additional inputs to my 744 or as stand alone directly to the camera
very nice preamps .
the good stuff except the preamp , you have continus preamp pot ( additional to the fader)
ms decoding
monitoring  for all channels
limiters that could be set from +4 to 20 db , and most important to these who run the consumer or semi professional recorders ,ability decrease the output level  for better matching of recording device .
working on 6-18v ext voltage or internal aa cells
rf immunity is also good , no cellphones can penetrate during the recording ( oh-wendt :-))