Athomson

that makes sense. Non-distilled water can carry a lot of stuff with it that can be left behind when it dries.

Realising it's an old thread but this is pretty clear in the 4060 manual "If the microphone gets filled up with water or sweat it will not be damaged, but possibly turn deaf while the water is captured inside the microphone, behind the protection grid." https://www.manualslib.com/manual/744164/Dpa-4060.html?page=2 It actually seems there is no waterproofing difference between the standard 4060 and the heavy duty one, both of them you'd ideally remove the cap to aid drainage, they are both unharmed by water but go deaf when its flooded. The other thing is that someone mentioned cleaning the caps/grids in an ultrasonic cleaner and then it seemed others were maybe thinking that post was referring to the mic capsules being cleaned in an ultrasonic cleaner. Has anyone cleaned the whole mic ultrasonically without harm? Would be great if mud or something got in one but i'd be a bit worried unless someone knows its ok.

heeeyyyyyyy! Well there you go!! Thanks for pointing that out. As I didn't create a project I didn't consider looking in there for the previous days non-project, automatically made daily folders.

As I say I'll be more careful in future and normally have spares as I use them in cameras too, but things just panned out that way and there I was with a load of stuff I knew I could delete but I had no way to access most of the recordings on the card. Seems less than optimal user-friendliness to require the user to work around a needless inability for the machine to read files in multiple folders in 2017 so I'm pretty sure SD just didn't notice this and will change it. It's probably 1 line of code.

Thanks for the reply. Looking elsewhere online as well I think most users are more interested in the ISOs than the mix track, especially inexperienced users. edit: this next paragraph is resolved in post 350 One other seriously problematic thing I've found, which i guess is firmware fixable, is accessing older files on the memory card. Presumably because the files are sorted into single day folders, which at first I though was a nice touch, when I access the files on the mixpre or through the wingman app it only shows me the files in the current (latest day) folder. This became a critical issue out field recording with a card running low, with no other facility to hand for accessing the card, I had no way to free up space by deleting files from previous days and I ran out of space to record. I'll know to be more careful clearing space in future but unless this is resolved I guess every owner will eventually find themselves in the same situation before they learn it the hard way. Something I would really love to know about how the limiter functions is if it reduces gain just once or multiple times in a linear or stepped way. So if the thing i'm recording causes the limiter to engage and reduce the gain, but then it gets louder still to a point where it would clip, will the limiters reduce the gain further? What's going on while it's doing it? If it's in steps knowing how many db per step would help me sort it out later. Also (in advanced mode) if its limiting a channel but I have the faders reduced will the signal go separately to the mix track and not be effected by the limiter on the ISO track? Or vice versa if I have a low level on the ISO track but the faders are up enough to cause limiting of the mix track will the ISO track also be effected by the limiter? I ask because the limiter warning lights on the ISO track even when it seems like only the mix track would need limiting though perhaps that's just to let me know which of the channels is causing the mix track to limit. thanks again

Loving my mixpre 6 so far, seems churlish to ask for more, but i'm a little stumped by one of the choices that SD made. I guess Paul you are subscribed to this thread so maybe this is a place to ask for discussion on it? I emailed SD asking if i'd missed the option to stereo link a pair of mics while using the faders to control the ISO levels. At the moment to use the faders to control ISOs the gain has to be set to basic mode and this then has the undesired effect of also removing the option to link a pair of mics to control gain simultaneously with one fader. Going individually into the menu to change the gain for each mic is unworkable on the fly so where I want to record with a stereo mic, a radio mic and a boom mic (real scenario), wanting just the ISOs to mix later, i'll use the custom with basic gain mode, but I cannot adjust the gain on the stereo mic on the go. The fader knobs are too small for accurately doing both together even if I had both hands free. The reply I got from SD was "I can not guarantee or promise if and when this will be added to future firmware releases." which i guess is the standard reply but with no indication if they thought it was an issue worth looking at or if they would try to add it. In which case i could wait. Paul can you say if it is something you're going to add? Ideally linking any channels in any modes but at least the 1-2, 3-4 which is available in advanced mode. Does anyone else want the same thing? Show of hands might help i guess. I really liked the idea someone on here had of an additional mode. Advanced, Basic (mix) and Basic (ISO) modes. But it might actually prove simpler to do away with the different modes and just allow people to find the more advanced options when needed, further in the menus but have a simple set up as default with a clear option to reset settings. I can see the idea behind having a basic mode but i'm not sure it's simpler to understand different modes from the get go, rather than understanding different options as and when they are needed. Other than that the only thing's i'd change would be to put out the light on the stop button. I lost the start of something already thinking the record button was lit. And when i'm wearing polarised sunglasses i can't see anything as the screen is 90 degrees wrong for my glasses, i thought it had died and i was panicking for a minute or two, checking connections and trying to restart it until i took off my sunglasses :-) Not sure if that's all polarised glasses or just mine but maybe version 2 could bear that in mind if it was just bad luck to be 90 off for that. Many thanks for a game changing product though, as i say i feel churlish to even raise these issues.