Topic: Deity PR-2 Pocket Recorder

[Gutbucket]

Fun with sum/difference processing!

Sound wise it ends up being somewhat akin to the more common 4 channel arrangement of a Mid/Side pair + a spaced L/R pair mixed together.

I originally did that as a playback work around for the lack of panning control on the R44, where channels 1 & 3 are always routed Left and channels 2 and 3 always routed Right.  Only way I could get channel 1 or 3 panned to center was to turn on Mid/Side decoding, which assigns those channels as "Mid".  The additional pseudo-stereo aspects of the rearward-facing Back channel acting as Side-channel was secondary and sort of came along for the ride after the primary goal of getting the forward facing center microphone channel panned to center had been achieved.  Thankfully it proved useful and attractive despite the asymmetric low frequency reinforcement/cancellation.  Taking it one step further by routing the rear-facing channel left and right but with a symmetric polarity-inverted phase relationship, achieved by way of that VST plugin, avoids all the asymmetric reinforcement/cancellation stuff.

[morst]

It's more than just clever, it's genius level, and my hat's off to you, Igor!

[cj.flac]

Ran these hat-mounted with AT943 cards 4.7k modded as mic in, first at +21dB then at +24 dB. Still plenty of headroom, excellent results. Maybe I should've actually uncoupled the gain control to adjust for L/R imbalance, but kinda hard to make that call in the field.

[lpmaskman]

Has anyone tried it with Panasonic WM61A capsules? I have a pair of it that I built about 15 years ago and I dug it up and connected to this recorder. Since these capsules are not really low sensitivity, maybe they are good with this PIP to record purely acoustic performances? Like a singer and and a guitarist performing in front of you.

[Gutbucket]

Should power them okay.  Best to do a test to determine where the SPL overload point lies.

[lpmaskman]

I will try it somehow, maybe with loud speakers to find out which level settings are good.

Also installed firmware v2.1. Did anyone notice anything improvevent? It just says fixes rare bugs.

[grawk]

I will try it somehow, maybe with loud speakers to find out which level settings are good.

Also installed firmware v2.1. Did anyone notice anything improvevent? It just says fixes rare bugs.

I didn't run into the bugs, but I haven't seen any problems since upgrading to 2.1. 

[Gutbucket]

^ Same.  Prior to using two PR-2s simultaneously sharing control and clock sync via the Sidus app, I upgraded both recorders to the latest firmware about a month back.  Have made 2 recordings since then, both without recorder related problems.

..which is not to say without any problem. I neglected to use a locking input Y cable into the newer PR-2 and that connection came loose prior to the second recording session.  Both recorders ran fine and seemingly in sync, just without any content being recorded onto the second one.  Bummer.  Should have gaff-taped that connection at least.