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The B6 is a great mic, however it's susceptible to air turbulence and fiddly with the fishing line size cable. Not a desert island mic though, you must have other mics must be on-hand. OST mics are highly regarded if your budget is limited. We still have to try out the Deity lavs. I don't like the idea of using adapters though (according to the NAB video)

The 195 series gear is fully compatible with 200 series equipment and 400 series equipment when running in the 200 mode. The 195 gear was all analog FM, 75 kHz deviation, no pre-emphasis with a dual band compander. If the pilot tone crystals are defective in the 195 (A weak point), then run in the bypass mode on the receivers. The 100 mode is 25 kHz deviation, with significant pre-emphasis and is not compatible with the 195 series. If the frequency is clear, these are good radios with much tighter RF filtering than any current products, ours or others. The audio is equivalent to the 200 or 400 series. Best Regards, Larry Fisher

Cedar DNS is a hammer, works well on many things, but you still need the right 'amount' of hammer for the job... too much or too little is just as bad as the background noise itself.

1. Literally any control surface supporting MCU will “work.” How well, to what extent, and how flexibly, is anyone’s guess until release. 2. Good question I’m curious too. 3. Presumably on the Scorpio itself, though I for one would hope for the ability to have “profiles” for certain control surfaces, editable on a real computer app and then loadable onto the Scorpio itself. 4. Just like with any other DAW control surface, with MCU you can move one channel at a time or a whole bank (usually 8 channels) at a time, up or down the list. I would expect that behavior to be the same here. The Icon surface supported out of the gate is definitely capable of this. 5. YES!! 6. For the time being SD seems to directly support using the Icon Platform m+ with the Scorpio, seems as though they will be directly supporting it themselves. Maybe not, but that’s my take from what they’ve said. I believe the thinking is that this list will grow over time. 7. Thankfully Android only is purely a release thing, they have said iOS support is coming too.

Actually I think it's the Cedar Dns2 (hardware) because it was like that in the live stream as well.

You take my quote out of context. Or maybe you didn't understand me correctly, because I didn't mean our field of work, but manufacturing in general. To emphasize my point; yes, most, if not all, of the products we use on a daily base are NOT made in "China" (or other Asian countries), YET other industries are doing it for decades now, with great results (Apple, Sony, Philips, Behringer/Midas/Klark Technik to name a few). Again, with the "vision" of the "mother" company. Not to say there is no vision in China or surrounding countries, but at least it takes the apparent scepticism away (there still seems to be that dark cloud hanging over China, that they just copy over there...).

Here's a bit of an overview of the current Sonosax preamp design which incorporates post (dual) ADC gain and has an option to record 32bit files: http://rtsound.net/no-gain-no-pain-sonosax-r4-and-ad8-gain-structure/ I've asked Sonosax a couple of questions about this since this discussion about the F6 has started, whether recording in 32bit produces float or integer files, and whether they can 'save' any overmodulated tracks

Nightpony.

Avoid is kinda strong. There are good reasons for using narrower filters in a multicoupler, particularly as new cell phone usage starts up in the 600 to 800 Mhz bands. Your post pretty well gives the reasons for narrower filters. The 411A does a better job than most of front end filtering but that advantage is somewhat over ridden by any multicoupler, more so by wide ones with weak amplifiers. In a well designed multicoupler not only will the filters be only as wide as necessary but the internal amp will be low distortion at high input levels in order to not produce RF intermod products. This spec is commonly left out by some manufactures, as it is hard (expensive) to accomplish. Instead they will quote amazing noise figures which are easy (read cheap). Ideally the amp in a multicoupler will have low gain, low noise, and low distortion (a high third order input intermod number). As usual with things RF, these desirable traits are not easy to attain simultaneously. A really strong, low intermod RF amp can make up for wide band input filters, but the ideal is narrow filters and strong amps. Watch out for quotes of output intermod number. These values are always higher than the input intermod value and make for better numbers. What really measures the performance in a multicoupler is the input intermod value. A high gain, low power amplifier can have good output numbers but weak input numbers since the input number is the output value MINUS the amplifier gain, i.e., high gain leads to poor input intermod values but usually excellent noise figures. One way to improve the performance of a wideband multicopler, is to use antennas with built in filtering or inherent narrow band response. For instance, an SNA600 dipole has about a 30 MHz bandwidth. That is equivalent to having a 30 MHz filter at the input of the multicoupler. A Yagi antenna would be an even narrower bandwidth. Sharkfins (log periodics) have wide response so are not good "filters". Powered sharkfins with built in filters can help. Another way to protect a wideband unit is to put a low loss inline filter in front of the wideband multicoupler input and then swap out the inline filters depending on what bands you are operating in. As an easy example, the Lectro PF25 is a one block wide passive filter and the PF50 is two blocks wide. What the user would like to have is a wideband antenna system and a wideband multicoupler that does not introduce spurious signals (low intermod) and is usable for all possible wireless frequencies. As in most RF compromise, as the airwaves become more congested this dream is going to become a little bit of a nightmare or at least a nightpony. Best Regards, Larry Fisher All very true, though I would say, if it has an amp at all, then input intermod values need to be considered. I would like to see PSC measure and publish third order input intermod numbers rather than just an excellent noise figure. See discussion above. Best Regards, Larry Fisher

I had great success ea time i have worked with it but only single camera - i know this may have been checked but any chance you working in 29.97 and 1x is set to drop frame? That always causes me to revert to internal if op has presets that set to drop frame as default

I understand everyone's antipathy to the "VS" discussions, but people usually do have to choose, and a less experienced soundie might not know a lot of other sound people personally to ask opinions of. In NY and LA it is a simple matter to visit a shop and do a long checkout. Other places this is not so simple and might involve a rental. So being able to ask here what users like and don't like about their rigs is very useful, as long as the tone stays positive, I think. philp