Topic: New improved microtrack (MT II)

[dactylus]

my MT gets HOTTTTTT everytime i use it
hot enough that i leave the lid on my bag open and you don't want to hold it in your hand after a show for a long time

for "low pro" my MT resides in a t-shirt pocket and it gets warm but not HOT - I run line in from dpa mma6000 > compact flash in the recorder- NO SWEAT!!

YMMV

 

[spoogles]

i'd never put a MT in a pocket. jeez if my nipples burnt off or my nutsac!!!!!
 shame they didnt add the removable battery option as i was almost going to get one if it did.

[dactylus]

i'd never put a MT in a pocket. jeez if my nipples burnt off or my nutsac!!!!!
 shame they didnt add the removable battery option as i was almost going to get one if it did.

ABSOLUTELY NOT A PROBLEM in my t-shirt pocket!!!  EVER...

 

[rowjimmy]

I put one in my cart and it says "#   Item MICROTRACK-II will generally ship within 5 business days."

Why does mine say "#   Item MICROTRACK-II will generally explode within 5 business days."

A lone incident when the MT in question was powering an external microdrive if memory serves me...  YOUR MT WILL NOT EXPLODE...

 

It was not powering an external microdrive. the drive was internal and, in use per the specs of the MT. Actually, the device was simply being powered on after a normal charging cycle.

Isolated incident? Perhaps.
But I don't keep any Li-Ion batts nears my balls.

I would buy this product if the battery were user-removable.

[jerryfreak]

I'd have to hope that after a year of tech advances, that they would have a new battery for the MT 2496.  Although it's the same shape/size, I bet it's a higher capacity.

not likely. The charge density of li-ion approached its peak several years ago, with no major advancements since then.

The best they could do is reduce power consumption of that hog.

My pda can record for 6 hours on a 2200 mah battery, while running a full OS! no excuse for a dedicated device like the microtrack to get any less than 4 hours when using only digi in

[silentmark]

Sluggish ? Never really noticed, YMMV of course ...

[guysonic]

Sluggish ? Never really noticed, YMMV of course ...

Hell yes it's SLOW!  Push a button on the older MT, and remember to take a breath waiting up to a few seconds for getting any response, or so it seems.  I've gotten used to this, but a deck like the R-09 can spoil you for being very responsive in comparison.

[eric.B]

My pda can record for 6 hours on a 2200 mah battery, while running a full OS! no excuse for a dedicated device like the microtrack to get any less than 4 hours when using only digi in

On the topic of odd behavior from dedicated devices there's also no excuse for how sluggish the mt is when you navigate the menu items (even while not recording)..  Wtf is it doing that makes it so unresponsive to user input? What is broken in their input event loop?  Other devices like the jb3, r09 & archos all respond instantly.

If anything, this is one complaint I have with the MT..  the feedback from a buttonpush is slow to the point where your not really sure if you actually pressed it.. 

[jerryfreak]

has anyone else find the MT to be on the 'flaky' side. In other wods, sometimes it just hangs or freaks out in an unreproduceable manner?

[Nick's Picks]

there is little question now that it has been a few years and a 2nd revision of the product...

the MT sucks.
it can work...but even when it does...it sucks.

[silentmark]

Sucks ? I think the early firmwares sucked, but I've been running rock solid for awhile now, again YMMV.

I think my only complaint right now is the internal battery...

Oh and I got the tyedyes Nick, pretty sweet stuff 

[Nick's Picks]

yea, sucks.
- no battery life to speak of, and USB power is a PITA
- no room around the jacks on the bottom
- TRS jacks suck
- buttons are unresponsive (slow OS)
- never lived up to their claims
- sucks.

:-)
glad you liked the dyes.

[JoeKiller]

Nothing like a good ole tracker bash thread, oh wait, no.

Please go bash the MT elsewhere in your jb3, r09, archos, 722, etc threads.  The limitations have been covered earlier.

[Nick's Picks]

yes sir

[it-goes-to-eleven]

Nothing like a good ole tracker bash thread, oh wait, no.

And M-Audio deserves every bit of the critique.

Anyone else recall how M-Audio published and represented the raw specs of the audio chipset as the audio specs of the microtracker? Those fantasy specs were really, really good - comparable to the best hardware available (v3/722/etc).  Tell me that M-Audio didn't know better.  "Lie" and "deception" are words that come to mind.

As M-Audio tries to hype their replacement product it is important for new potential users to know that a lot of folks who bought the original mt in good faith were very disappointed.  Not only in the product but in the way m-audio over-hyped and over-sold and then didn't really fix many of the greatest flaws.  Their communication with customers during that time was TERRIBLE.  The product Q/A was hugely pathetic ("note to self - actually use new product for at least 5 minutes before release").

Even with the mt as it was, M-audio could have done a much better job with customers. They would have a lot more credibility if they'd been more honest about the product. But since they went the hype route instead, they really lost a lot of credibility as a company and brand.

So.. of course M-audio would like to forget how they handled the situation with the original MT and the customers who bought it.

Nick, a couple missing from your list:

noisy analog section
hangs if digi signal lost before file save