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Gear / Technical Help => Recording Gear => Topic started by: badsneakers on May 06, 2006, 10:58:29 AM
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I figure I will get two 2 gig cards I just don't what kind to get.
Other then that I'm real excited to get tapeing. This is my first rig, I went with C4's for mics
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Kingston. Tried and proven by most who own the Marantz line.
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Sandisk Ultra II is another.
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thank you!
Does the speed of the card matter?
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Yes. Don't get the low end models. They are slow cards, somewhere around 10-20x. Anything 45x or higher is the way to go. 100x or higher would be overkill because of price, IMO.
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Kingston. Tried and proven by most who own the Marantz line.
agreed, it's also one of the Marantz recommended brands which is a plus.
I'm loving my 660, good luck with it!
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I figure I will get two 2 gig cards I just don't what kind to get.
Other then that I'm real excited to get tapeing. This is my first rig, I went with C4's for mics
Do yourself a favor and get (1) 4 GB card rather than (2) 2 GB cards. No band will play long enough to fill that sucker up a 16 bit. 2 GB is ~ 3 hours 15 minutes, 4 GB is ~ 6 hours 30 minutes at 16 bit. I use the 4 GB Kingston Elite in my PMD671. I want to get another one for festival type shows this summer.
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I figure I will get two 2 gig cards I just don't what kind to get.
Other then that I'm real excited to get tapeing. This is my first rig, I went with C4's for mics
Do yourself a favor and get (1) 4 GB card rather than (2) 2 GB cards. No band will play long enough to fill that sucker up a 16 bit. 2 GB is ~ 3 hours 15 minutes, 4 GB is ~ 6 hours 30 minutes at 16 bit. I use the 4 GB Kingston Elite in my PMD671. I want to get another one for festival type shows this summer.
for the money youd save buying the cf card reader in the yard sale rather than buying another 4GB card, id highly check those sweet cf card+HD units out, they can have a 60GB HD and read the cards at 16MB/sec
i think when i jump for the 671, im gonna get (1) 4GB CF Cards and the portadrive and be set for festies
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Bean, are those storage devices proven in the field? I can think of nothing worse than dumping audio data to one of those at a festival and finding out later (after formating and recording more on the CF card) that the data is not there or it is corrupt.
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Bean, are those storage devices proven in the field? I can think of nothing worse than dumping audio data to one of those at a festival and finding out later (after formating and recording more on the CF card) that the data is not there or it is corrupt.
ive read my share of reviews of the nice ones that are 150-200 dollars and everything ive read has been pretty positive
they constantly verify the data after its written and can dump a 4GB card in about 5 mins
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http://www.compactdrive.com/product_info.php?cPath=22&products_id=31
http://www.compactdrive.com/product_info.php?cPath=22&products_id=31
http://www.compactdrive.com/product_info.php?cPath=22&products_id=29
you can put in any HD you want as well, and they can transfer up to 50GB going from CF>HD on a single charge of your 4xAA's
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How much $$ are these running now? Do you have any info on what brand or model is the most reliable?
+T for the research :)
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add the 80x Ridata cards to the list of CF that works w/ the 660
got the ACm 660 today and it worked fine for my living room testing.
trying it at a show tomorrow (The Nighthawks)
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Even though we all use the Kingston cards with success, I have read on the Oade board that they are still not a preffered card, nor are they on the Marantz recomended list.
Sandisc is solid. And I dont believe that speed will equal anything other than batteries that draining faster when we are talking about 16bit recording w/the 660. So just go cheap, and you'll be fine. Several 2gbs, a 4gb..shit, i'd even run a microdrive in one of those suckers, though that will certainly affect the battery life.
Then agaian, with 7 hour runtimes on good nimh AAs, who cares.
Just dont cheap out and get some noname ass brand. that will certainly not work.
Lexar is another on the list.
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I'm getting a 660 from Oade and I had this same question. I read your stuff at the oade board too Nick. Thanks, as always for your research on this stuff. Dank, the ridata cards are super cheap. Still going good with your ridata? I think I am going to order one from newegg this weekend. Ridata ritek pro 2 gb cards are $49 plus $5 for super reliable newegg shipping. http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.asp?Submit=ENE&N=2000170068+1053107923+105331373&Subcategory=68&description=&srchInDesc=&minPrice=&maxPrice=
By the way, I just bought an older version of the cf > HDD backup device that is in the yard sale for $48 shipped on ebay. It is a 2mb/s transfer rate so a 2 gb card should take about 11 minutes. I have a spare 40GB lappy drive that I will put into the barebones reader. in is a compact drive pd6a. Slower than the newer ones, but for $40 you can't go wrong. There is always more than 15 minutes between sets! For 24bit it may not be fast enough, but for 16bit it should be fine. I'll report back on that after I get it and play for a bit.
Thanks for the info guys. Dank, please let me know (or anyone who has used one with a marantz) about the Ridata cards.
Matt
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shit, i'd even run a microdrive in one of those suckers, though that will certainly affect the battery life.
Microdrives do not work!!!!
I run 4GB Kingston with no problems. I have a card reader that I take on the road and have never had problems with the half a dozen times I've used it. I bought a Inoi but if I had it to do over I would get the CompactDrive posted above which reads faster than mine and takes AA. Mine does a 2GB down load in about 30 minutes which is ok for end of the night download but I might be stressful with a 30 minute band or set break.
http://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=52070.msg696972#msg696972
I would get a 4 GB card & a card reader. +T on the ACM660 and have fun with it and always run the -20 pad!
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re: microdrives...not workikng..
the dont? not at all?
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matt -
Ive recorded about 4 hours of tunes on the ridata card, so far so good.
battery life doesnt seem to be a concern at all....
doing 3 shows sun/mon/tue....will report any problems, but so far so good in the house and in the field
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re: microdrives...not workikng..
the dont? not at all?
Nope. Not on any of the Marantz line.
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still have not purchased a card yet.. but I'm happy to say I got a fedex email saying my stuff from oade was shipped today!!!! ;D
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Right on! youll love this box.
Did 2 Guns N Roses shows this weekend
Great box for that 'real low pro' application.
I'm inlove with the all-in-one concept now!
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what about good nimh AAs??
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Duracell 2500mAh NiNH are the best i've used. 7 hours SOLID w/phantom. Thats w/several mics that i've used w/mine when I had it.
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Well I will report that the Ridata 80x 2GB cards work great right out of the box. Is there a team Marantx or a team 660? We need one!
Matt
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Duracell 2500mAh NiNH are the best i've used. 7 hours SOLID w/phantom. Thats w/several mics that i've used w/mine when I had it.
Thank you!! This is what I will buy
I got my 660 and mics on Saturday. Today I will buy NiMH and a flash card