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Re: Marantz PMD 660
« Reply #135 on: July 30, 2006, 09:48:57 AM »
Has anyone tried a 4gb PNY card? I did and it wouldn't work in my pmd 660 but worked in my PC. Was wondering if anyone else had a similar experience. I saw a previous post with like 50gig storage units take that compact flash cards. Anyone know anything about those? thanks.

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Re: Marantz PMD 660
« Reply #136 on: July 30, 2006, 10:48:02 AM »
Quote from: paullySC on July 30, 2006, 09:48:57 AM
Has anyone tried a 4gb PNY card? I did and it wouldn't work in my pmd 660 but worked in my PC. Was wondering if anyone else had a similar experience. I saw a previous post with like 50gig storage units take that compact flash cards. Anyone know anything about those? thanks.

paul

I have a 40gb Hyperdrive HD80. You can dump CF/SD/Microdrive and some other types right onto it. It uses 4xAA batteries and takes about 5-10min to copy a full 2 hour recording over with file verification turned on (compares the copied file and the source file to make sure they're identical, so it takes a bit longer). I've had no problems with it and they shipped it to me in under 24 hours to Canada even... great folks over at http://www.hyperdrive.com. It is slightly more expensive than some others I've seen, but you get what you pay for... it's rock solid!
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Re: Marantz PMD 660
« Reply #137 on: July 31, 2006, 06:30:01 PM »

Sweet!  I'm on the Panic for sure!


I haven't gotten a chance to listen yet carefully to any from the weekend but from what little I've heard in the Car and on the PC speakers I have a feeling I"m going to be more than happy!

I have noticed that my box reports full battery for quite some time and doesn't give too much warning when it's getting ready to go.  I had some issues over the weekend.

I'll try the "shim" trick and do some more testing.

But I'll tell you... tapeless recording with NO hard drive spinup or access time in an all in one footpirnt with a real record knob and meter....  ummmm... HELL YES!


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Quote from: spyder9 on July 27, 2006, 06:25:06 PM
I just made a really clean recording with the 660 this past weekend.  Elvin Bishop.  Its in the Kickdown if you're on the fence with this box.  I'm quite impressed with the 660.  Quite impressed.  My third outing with it and my best recording so far.  Used a Kingston 4GB 45x card and got no noise issues.

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I find mine sounding better and better....some might be location, venue and sound system related. My best recording so far. Widespread Panic Greek Berkeley 7/8/06. Enjoy!

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BTW Newegg just dropped the price on the Sandisk to $106.99  just a day after I paid $124  >:(

106.99.. wow... at that price, having an OTG drive hardly seems worthwhile.


...well I do have 40 Gig on the OTG  : )

I was thinking about festivals like High Sierra you could walk around with the OTG and just dump data from other rigs from the shows you didn't see.

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I brought my photohard drive to High Sierra this year(Inoi 20 GB)...though about asking for others recordings for CF download but figured I had 11 recordings to deal with of my own. I just want to buy a faster one/more memory in the future but I'm holding out for the US release of this unit....will play mp3 and uses AA batteries. http://www.compactdrive.com/product_info.php?cPath=22_29&products_id=29&model=specs_md80&model=feat_md80
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Re: Marantz PMD 660
« Reply #138 on: July 31, 2006, 06:36:15 PM »
First outing with the ACM 660 was a success late night for Mule in Buffalo... and the recording sounds GREAT! This box was made to run behind AKG's....
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Re: Marantz PMD 660
« Reply #139 on: July 31, 2006, 07:15:02 PM »
Quote from: Ъ з ® Ğ on July 31, 2006, 06:36:15 PM
First outing with the ACM 660 was a success late night for Mule in Buffalo... and the recording sounds GREAT! This box was made to run behind AKG's....

Damn, I thought it was made for km140s!  :laugh:

Jammin,
Don't forget about the ability to hot swap...but be very careful. I would suggest between songs and with few beers in ya. ;)
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Re: Marantz PMD 660
« Reply #140 on: July 31, 2006, 08:42:01 PM »
Quote from: tfs8271 on July 31, 2006, 07:15:02 PM
Quote from: Ъ з ® Ğ on July 31, 2006, 06:36:15 PM
First outing with the ACM 660 was a success late night for Mule in Buffalo... and the recording sounds GREAT! This box was made to run behind AKG's....

Damn, I thought it was made for km140s!  :laugh:

Jammin,
Don't forget about the ability to hot swap...but be very careful. I would suggest between songs and with few beers in ya. ;)


This WAS actually the problem.  ;D  I came to get the Breakfast and Moonshine Still... Which I did. The rig spent a lot of time unattended for the rest.  I never really saw it start to get low.  Every time I checked the battery indicator would be at full or the thing would be off. I'm not too worried due to the level of focus that I applied but I do want to do some more runtime tests under power. 
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Re: Marantz PMD 660
« Reply #141 on: August 01, 2006, 03:09:54 AM »
seems that happened to me last nite at sweetwaters-saloon  (delta nove ) was checking the battery level 1/2 the nite & showed full every time i looked , then deck went lites off ! With a set of brand new sony NiCads  2 hours in !(I think it's a bad cell) whipped them dead puppies out & replaced with a fresh set of duracells that i always keep in case of such BS .....60 seconds lost but that's why i go over at home a few times just to know what to do in case of failure . plan for failure at home a few times & then you know what & where the items are you need to quick fix in the feild  ..   Mike
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Re: Marantz PMD 660
« Reply #142 on: August 01, 2006, 01:36:41 PM »
I always tape with two sets of batteries and change and set break regardless of what the power meter says. I think the meter may give false readings if you change the battery type in the menu.

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Re: Marantz PMD 660
« Reply #143 on: August 01, 2006, 01:51:32 PM »
Quote from: paullySC on August 01, 2006, 01:36:41 PM
I always tape with two sets of batteries and change and set break regardless of what the power meter says. I think the meter may give false readings if you change the battery type in the menu.

paul
the meter won't be acurate if you have the wrong type selected.

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Re: Marantz PMD 660
« Reply #144 on: August 01, 2006, 01:54:50 PM »
Quote from: mmmatt on August 01, 2006, 01:51:32 PM
Quote from: paullySC on August 01, 2006, 01:36:41 PM
I always tape with two sets of batteries and change and set break regardless of what the power meter says. I think the meter may give false readings if you change the battery type in the menu.

paul
the meter won't be acurate if you have the wrong type selected.

Matt
Exactly. That happened to me once. I didn't realize what caused it until I was going through the presets.

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Re: Marantz PMD 660
« Reply #145 on: August 01, 2006, 11:18:23 PM »
I would be OK with that Theory if I were using "AA"'s and had it set to NiMH...  but I was using NiMH batteries so if I had it set the wrong way shouldn't it have warned me more quickly!

I did go in and change all the Presets to NiMH before I left for the festival because I knew that would be all that would be used.
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Re: Marantz PMD 660
« Reply #146 on: August 02, 2006, 12:16:38 AM »
Happened once or twice. Now I look at the batteries and say to yourself NiMH or Alkaline, then set your 660. Some learn slower (myself)...It's just that we learn.  8)

No warnings available, I go through the whole Preset #1 each time I record usually 44.1, -20dB and I adjust battery type. Preset #2 is same but 0dB attenuation/NiMH. Preset #3 is mp3 for work stuff.
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Re: Marantz PMD 660
« Reply #147 on: August 02, 2006, 08:18:51 AM »
Quote from: tfs8271 on August 02, 2006, 12:16:38 AM
Happened once or twice. Now I look at the batteries and say to yourself NiMH or Alkaline, then set your 660. Some learn slower (myself)...It's just that we learn.  8)

No warnings available, I go through the whole Preset #1 each time I record usually 44.1, -20dB and I adjust battery type. Preset #2 is same but 0dB attenuation/NiMH. Preset #3 is mp3 for work stuff.


Oh that reminds me.... Pad Off All weekend and Nary a problem to be had on that front.
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Re: Marantz PMD 660
« Reply #148 on: August 02, 2006, 08:15:00 PM »
Here's my inaugural 660 experience:

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http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=27724

Gov't Mule
Erie Basin Marina
Buffalo, NY
July 30, 2006

Source: AKG CK61|C480B (DIN) > Oade ACM Marantz PMD660 (16bit/44.1khz)
Location: FOB, DFC, 8' high
Transfer: CF > Adobe Audition 1.5 > CD Wave > FLAC Frontend > .flac16

Taped & Transferred by: Andrew Berg (aberg83@gmail.com)

Disc 1 ~ Set I

01. Blind Man In The Dark
02. Perfect Shelter
03. Bad Little Doggie
04. Bad Man Walking
05. Mr. High & Mighty
06. Larger Than Life
07. Sco-Mule
08. I'll Be The One
09. Thorazine Shuffle

Disc 2 ~ Set II

01. Time To Confess
02. Lola Leave Your Light On
03. Livin' Lovin' Maid
04. Streamline Woman >
05. Drums
06. Banks Of The Deep End
07. Mule
08. Soulshine
09. (encore break)
10. I'm A Ram >
11. Love Me Do >
12. I'm A Ram

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Re: Marantz PMD 660
« Reply #149 on: August 03, 2006, 12:04:48 PM »
Awesome!  Cant Wait to Check it out!




Quote from: Ъ з ® Ğ on August 02, 2006, 08:15:00 PM
Here's my inaugural 660 experience:

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http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=27724

Gov't Mule
Erie Basin Marina
Buffalo, NY
July 30, 2006

Source: AKG CK61|C480B (DIN) > Oade ACM Marantz PMD660 (16bit/44.1khz)
Location: FOB, DFC, 8' high
Transfer: CF > Adobe Audition 1.5 > CD Wave > FLAC Frontend > .flac16

Taped & Transferred by: Andrew Berg (aberg83@gmail.com)

Disc 1 ~ Set I

01. Blind Man In The Dark
02. Perfect Shelter
03. Bad Little Doggie
04. Bad Man Walking
05. Mr. High & Mighty
06. Larger Than Life
07. Sco-Mule
08. I'll Be The One
09. Thorazine Shuffle

Disc 2 ~ Set II

01. Time To Confess
02. Lola Leave Your Light On
03. Livin' Lovin' Maid
04. Streamline Woman >
05. Drums
06. Banks Of The Deep End
07. Mule
08. Soulshine
09. (encore break)
10. I'm A Ram >
11. Love Me Do >
12. I'm A Ram

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