Topic: Imagine a recorder built to your own design..

[Sunday Driver]

A small flash memory based recorder with the preamp quality of the Sony RH-1 Hi-MD or M1 DAT.

We can all dream. 

[OOK]

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..

[Kyle]

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.

[page]

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.