as I toy w/the idea of re-joining team Soundfield...this deck was particularly appealing to me for several reasons. size, battery life, 4chan for B format.
but then I started to think of what 4 chan's of B format at 24/44 would run (4gb per hour) and how large of an SD card I could get....
and my excitement went away.
16gb SDHC card works fine in my R-09's. The SDHC spec supports up to 32g. That's 4 hours doable now and 8 down the road @ 4 x 24/44 (or 24/48).
Maybe I'm confused, but isn't 2 channels at 24/44, 1GB/per hour? So 4 Channels would be 2GB/per hour.
A 8 GB card would yield about 4 hours of 4 Channels at 24/44 and about 8 Hours for a 16GB card. I'm I wrong?
Recording Time using 8 GB SDHC card
16 bit/44.1kHz : 755 minutes (Stereo), 377 minutes (4ch)
16 bit/48kHz : 694 minutes (Stereo), 347 minutes (4ch)
24 bit/48kHz : 462 minutes (Stereo), 231 minutes (4ch)
24 bit/96kHz : 231 minutes (Stereo), 115 minutes (4ch)
24 bit/192kHz : 115 minutes (Stereo)
For the most part 8GB should do the trick and 16GB should be plenty. With the prices dropping so fast on SD cards festivals shouldn't be a problem.
Unless B Format is something else?
You are correct I was off by a factor of 2 (as was Nick, I didn't think it through, just multiplied using his figure).
Filesize wise B-format is just 4 linked tracks (usually labled W,X,Y,Z instead of L,R for stereo).
Goin' back to edit my post..
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