Dude, I for one, am not bashing anything... I'm dead serious about my post above... and if anybody said that the 1/4" inputs were noisy if the TRS moves it wouldn't make me hesititate ONE second to still buy this thing.
You want a positive thought on this piece of gear well here it is: For me the MicroTrack is a LIFE SAVER...
I'm not into stealthing or even taping shows. The only live music that I'd ever want to record would be acoustic sets... in a really small venue... like maybe my living room. I'd like to make some local friends who appreciate this type of field recording, but for me it goes way beyond that. I'm buying the MicroTrack as an alternative to a $4500 piece of gear... and the MicroTrack will most likely OUTPERFORM that gear. Have I got your attention? Check this out.
I'm a video guy... but my passion is audio for video... and that is hard to do well. There are many obstacles in just making sounds seem to match the picture although in reality we never hear as well as you do in a well recorded video. You don't hear people from across the room speaking as if you're right next to them... or when a couple is walking down by the lake and they're 50 yards away you don't hear their soft voices.
The only way to get that is with good mics, booms, and WIRELESS. That is where the wrench is thrown in for most soundguys. Wireless mics SUCK... they suck even more when you want them to run a condenser. The only wireless system that can run condensers and still sound halfway decent is a Zaxcom Digital... and they're $4500... and they STILL aren't infallible.
So here's how I'm going to use my MicroTrack... I'm going to run my AKG 480b/ck69 boom with a line into a Sound Devices MM-1 and that will line-out to the MicroTrack line-in (and a split to a wireless)... then I'll use the RCA line-outs of the MicroTrack to run monitor back into the MM-1. The wireless will give me a guide track for easy sync'ing of my audio in post... and that's where I'll import the 16/48 file that I got directly off the gun... rather then accepting the SOUL CRUSHING effects of a wireless set on a condenser.
How's THAT for a crazy usage of the MicroTrack? And the craziest part is that doing something like that was a lot harder before the MicroTrack came along... guys were pulling this shit with a whole BAG of stuff just to make it happen!
I got nuthin' but happy excitement for this damn thing to get here!