Topic: SOUND DEVICES 7-SERIES RECORDER UPDATE

[BobW]

I'm actually getting excited about this one (finally).  

Just FYI, it looks like Doug Oade has a working, MOD Fostex FR-2 already.
No word on price, but he has said that he's posting sound samples this week.

Choices !

[John R]

pretty good view of the back of the 722 in that video.  looks like it will take the largest sony battery you can get your hands on.  i liked those stealth mics at around 13 minutes.

jr

[Lee]

just wait until I get my v4, I'll put all those puny SD boxes to shame





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[John R]

just wait until I get my v4, I'll put all those puny SD boxes to shame





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why is everyone waiting to get a v4?  at least they're shipping on schedule.

jr

[Lil Kim Jong-Il]

hopefully we'll have some more solid info on the 18th

What was supposed to happen today?  

I'm starting to go crazy over this.  Sometime in the next week I need to order an 80g HD or a bunch of tape.  

[Marc Nutter]

hopefully we'll have some more solid info on the 18th

What was supposed to happen today?  

I'm starting to go crazy over this.  Sometime in the next week I need to order an 80g HD or a bunch of tape.  

what happened today was that we met with jon tatooles of sd and were given some training/overview with the 744t.  these things have some awesome features.

jr

both units, front and back with schoeps for scale

[Marc Nutter]

here is the front panel display, which lights up or not(when in 'stealth' mode, all display goes dark) top left is battery meter, below it is the CF card meter, the internal drive meter, and the external drive meter.  the meters indicate how much recording time there is left on drive(s) depending on bit/freq selected.

version two will be able to record to and read from an external device via the firewire port

next column:
file name, absolute time, time code, channels assigned(dark)

right column:
date/time, bits, freq, don't know

[John R]

digi side.  spdif i/o on ch 1&2 only.  will output only at rate recorded at.
c-link for data daisy chain.  black button on left multifunction, mainly for scrolling through menu(79 top layers)

jr

[John R]

analog i/o(sort of)

the xlr's will be turned upright and switches moved up also.

the top and bottom will be aluminium and thicker, the front, rear and sides are stainless.

jr

[John R]

back with battery area, uses standard sony camcorder batt.  shipping with the one in the center.  end of sla's.

the LEDs are, as always, blinding, when turned all the way up.  but, they are totally adjustable, and as mentioned above, able to go into stealth mode, where nothing is illuminated.  the meters will be renumbered, where -60 will be -50.

jr

[F.O.Bean]

nice!!

is the external drive hooked up to a lappy??? looks like its running low??

also, how long do the sony batts go for???

and one more, it shows an aes/spdif i/o on the same side, how is that possible??? looks like a bnc connection??? i didnt know aes could be sent via bnc???

thanks guyz!!

bean

[MattD]

right column:
date/time, bits, freq, don't know

The "don't know" is likely for SMPTE - 30 ND = 30 fps, non-dropping. I would think 24, 25, and 29 DF are also options.

[John R]

some features:

10 sec preroll, meaning you can have it recording to the buffer all the time, so, if you miss the first note and preroll is enabled, hit record, and you haven't missed anything. at 16/44, 5 at 24/96

programable start/stop, like a vcr.  super sealth, if needed.

cueing within track.

user peak adjust.  if you know you only want to go up to -02, you can set that to be 0.

monophonic and polyphonic .wav files

user adjustable delay on each channel

on board aa batt for clock

etc, etc...

more as i remember, or nutter checks his notes and chimes in

this thing is so sweet.  hopefully we'll have them to use at red rocks and telluride.  

jr

[Mic D]

I don't like how the meters are numbered. They have -12 way at the top. Right next to 0, basically.

[Lil Kim Jong-Il]

Thanks for the pictures!

Is there a part number for that power connecctor?

What if there is a battery installed and an external DC source?  will the battery attempt to charge off the DC source?  

Is there a manual ready yet or any word on the HD installation proceedure?

programable start/stop, like a vcr.  super sealth, if needed.
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With a big ass HD, just start it in the car ;-)