If this is a battery and voltage supply type issue, I think what I need is for someone with soldering skills to build me a battery pack to test against the SF one. I can't solder to save my life...
Ideally I'd like to use a different external battery with a 2 pin lemo connection.
Who's up for it?
What voltage does the pre run on?...... any chance of posting a pic of the SF batt pack? I could probably put one together but I do not have any materials at the moment. I may suggest some high quality R/C cells in whatever arrangement needed to get proper voltage. I can build batt. packs no problem just nee some more info. BTW the R/C cells can get pretty pricy so it just depends on how much you want to spend on this thing. Of corse you could always get some cheap cells just to test it out I guess.....
-Kiel
Anything between 9V - 12V. It uses the same battery as the SD 7xx series. They have a special adapter that goes with it and goes 2 pin lemo into the pre.
Actually I may take you up on that...building a battery pack. The product I've gotten from them is faulty for sure.
But I did get a complete recording last night, overload and error free. Listening to this is what prevents me from going back to schoeps. I think it sounds pretty damn good, that's why I'm dealing with this...and have been as long as I have.
http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=519169&uploaded=1PERFORMANCE INFORMATION
Band: Dead Confederate
Date: October 8, 2008
Venue: The Khyber
City, State: Philadelphia, PA
SETLIST & TRACKING INFORMATION
01. Intro>
02. [Unknown]
03. [Unknown]
04. [Unknown]
05. [Unknown]
06. [Unknown]
07. [Unknown]
08. [Unknown]
PERFORMANCE NOTES
Shared bill with Mean Street, Catfish Haven, and The Swimmers.
Dead Confederate played third.
RECORDING INFOMATION
Location: DFC/FOB
Microphone: Soundfield ST-350
Microphone Configuration: XY
Preamp: Soundfield ST-350 Controller Box
A/D Conversion and Recording Deck: Edirol R44 (Oade Concert Mod)
Recording Format: 4 Channel Wav File in B Format, 24 Bits @ 48 kHz Sample Rate
CONVERSION INFORMATION
Transfer: Edirol R44-> USB-> PC
Post-Production Steps:
[1] Polar Pattern, Width, and B Format to Stereo Decoding with Nuendo 3 using the Soundfield Surround Zone Plugin
[2] Song Tracking with CD Wave
[3] Resample, Dither, and Levels Normalized with Wavelab 5
[4] File Compression with FLAC Frontend (Level 6)
[5] FLAC File Tagging with Foobar 2000 Live Show Tagger Plugin
[6] Album Art tagging with Media Monkey
Final Microphone Configuration: Cardioid XY @ 90 Degrees
Final File Format: 2 Channel Stereo FLAC File, 16 Bits @ 44.1 kHz Sample Rate
FLAC FINGERPRINT INFORMATION
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deadconfederate2008-10-08t07.flac:83839b75f512b56a46e841e7e9f59990
SECTOR BOUNDARY CONFIRMATION
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10:12.63 108105020 --- -- ---xx deadconfederate2008-10-08t02.flac
5:55.37 62709068 --- -- ---xx deadconfederate2008-10-08t03.flac
6:02.41 63953276 --- -- ---xx deadconfederate2008-10-08t04.flac
5:33.58 58877660 --- -- ---xx deadconfederate2008-10-08t05.flac
4:46.55 50579804 --- -- ---xx deadconfederate2008-10-08t06.flac
6:03.39 64124972 --- -- ---xx deadconfederate2008-10-08t07.flac
4:35.46 48618236 --- -- ---xx deadconfederate2008-10-08t08.flac
43:24.58 459482368 B (totals for 8 files, 0.5837 overall compression ratio)