Matti Zemack wrote "The Roland R-44 is good value but without gang-able it makes B-format life less convenient."
The R-44 is in practice quite usable for B-format recording. The R44 has switchable gains on each mic input in 6dB steps. >From tests I've found the worse case gain mis-match between chan is <0.1dB. What you need to do is turn the front panel vols knobs fully clockwise & just use the switchable gains. The R44 has for sure rather more noisy mic amps than the SD7xx recorders, but I suspect the ST250 being rather noisy too, won't be compromised by the R44. John Lundsten Hi all, I'm new to this list. I have been reading all mails during summer, and I'm very impressed with the topics that have been covered. First a brief presentation; My name is Matti Zemack, living in Stockholm, Sweden. I have mainly been working in broadcast, mostly radio. Usually involving final mixing (sound balancing?), but also field recordings. I have my own studio, mainly used for speech and I've been using Pro Tools there since 1994. Been employed by Swedish Radio, BBC R&D (Kingswood Warren), Viasat Broadcasting and soon TV4. I have always had an interest in finding an automated way of managing radio's and TV's perceived sound levels. I finally took my M.Sc. 2007 in Media Technology. My final paper was on Perceived Audio Levels in Broadcasting (sorry, no algorithm for automated sound levels yet...). During my studies I got introduced to Ambisonics. And borrowed a mic for a project. A wonderful new world opened itself. I did some PD/matlab programming for decoding and such and had a really good time. 2008 I finally bought a second hand AMS 250. It's portable, but so far I've only used it for studio recordings. The time has come to get out on my FX recording project and need a 4 channel "tape machine". I understand that the SoundDevices 744 is fantastic. I've previously used the 722, and even recovered missing audio from that which got lost (early firmware, many years ago). But my budget is not so fantastic. The Roland R-44 is good value but without gang-able it makes B-format life less convenient. So left is the DR-680. Has anyone used this with the old portable AMS 250 setup? Everything fine regarding mic levels and such between AMS-250/DR-680? Thanks in advance, Matti Zemack _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list [email protected] https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
