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Joe A

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  1. The Sonosax M2D2 is mentioned in the post before yours. I've had the M2D2 for about a month now, and also intended it for travel. All the port connections on the M2D2 except headphones are TA3-male. (I have some 4060s too, but haven't considered or looked for a suitable connection for them yet - good idea!) (Looking is over! Had a pair of DPA's DAD6017 - TA3F to Microdot! Now another mic option.) I will be recording with Senn 8000s via MZL cables, or Schoeps caps via CMC1-L (Lemo) cables, and recording into a dedicated non-SIM Android phone via a 6" USB-C to USB-C cable. There is an app that recognizes the M2D2 - Field Recorder. A little Velcro gets you a compact unit. Get a couple extra 18650 batteries, and a dual port USB-C charger/battery for CYA. My laptop also attaches and recharges via USB-C, and attaching the phone at end of days or at breaks lets you copy files for backup or editing. You will need a bunch of TA3-female to XLR3-female cables for normal mic connections. Download the OP manual. Good travels! ** The Field Recorder app has one potential problem: the 24-bit output by the M2D2 is dithered and saved to 16-bit .wav files. Looking for an alternate.
  2. I use Tentacles normally to feed the camera and jam the recorder, and Blackmagic for one brand, makes this distinct with a feed track for the Tentacle and a separate feed from the recorder or an external or internal microphone. I'll even use a splitter on stereo TRS feeds with the Tentacle if that is the only option. Never had a problem like your example with Tentacle TC or recorder TC. Same solid sync result at post. But the F6 got a good workout.
  3. That was my original question: how would you detect the small gap during live operation, so it would not be necessary to listen to hours of recordings to hear a gap? I use continuous timecode to sync audio recording segments to video segments, and feed that unique timecode to both the recorder and the camera. In this case, my recorder generates the timecode continuously, and I would feed that timecode stream to my camera as it records streams of video. If it is possible that the fault you see with your F6 is also in my F6, and the evidence was in the recording files by reading the beginning and ending timecode values in each 2G break file, then, no, my F6 does not have that defect. Ending minus Beginning values are the same for each, and each file is exactly 2G, except for the last file with <2G of ending odd storage space.
  4. Results 2: Conditions: Same card, reformatted in the F6; timecode from F6 as RTC; DaVinci file timecode reader; recordings: dual 24-linear / 36-float + LR-float, giving 13 files/14 tracks; all tracks at 96k sample rate. >>>> All files display the same beginning and same ending timecode values. Although 192k sample rate is available, there are several limitation conditions that prevent choosing the output of all 13 files during a single recording pass, specifically, the recording options of using "dual" or a setting of "float". This 96k test puts the greatest stress on F6 internals, and on the quantity of simultaneous file output written to the SD card.
  5. This result does not rule out a HW or FW problem with the newer copies, and perhaps many of these copies have not been pushed hard enough to reveal the condition. Yes, the frustration is understood. I will rerun the above more times, pushing up towards dual/192, or whatever the limits are. I'll post back here if a failure is triggered, but check in otherwise for positive outcomes.
  6. Results. In the most demanding tests in the F6 - 6 tracks, dual 24-36/48 + LR-float (forgot to disable LR), all 13 files end at the same timecode value, of timecode generated in the F6, RTC. I used a new ExPro 128GB SDXC UHS-I formatted in the F6. I am using DaVinci Resolve Studio to display the beginning and ending TC values.
  7. I don't know details of Cinela products, but I recently had some extra time and responded to this post on a Sennheiser MKH 8000 forum - (9) Sennheiser MKH 8000 users - MKH 8040 8050 8060 8020 8090 8070 | Has anyone had any success adding an extra pair of single lyres 62 (19/25) to the Center bar of the Rycote ORTF suspension | Facebook I have a Rycote ORTF rig with the MZL connbox. The connbox was removed from its center position during the rework, but I was able to reinstall afterwards to a position just off-center. No mods or cutting of the ORTF rig were necessary, just the addition of the third center position lyre set, and the connbox reposition to another of the many threaded bolt sockets built into the Rycote rig. I reused/cut down an old RODE support with lyres designed for hot shoe attachment. The RODE plus an extra MZL cable and a couple M3 bolts finished the mod. You might have a simpler mod with these Rycote clips plus a second mic cable - Rycote Back-to-Back Microphone Clips (Pair) 048488 B&H Photo (bhphotovideo.com). I see the clips often with MS setups (and use them myself).
  8. ... and duration. Before a 2G break or stress it out for ???.
  9. The delay here is taxes. Got the last two income statements yesterday and Wed, and needed to break in hard today; two weeks to go, Fed and state. Some ground setup questions: I am going to use one card, even in the 8n, transferring and reformatting in-machine. You have a choice of the ExPro 95MB/s or the 170 label, both SDXC UHS-I, both 128GB. I will set TC to RTC internal, and I typically use 29.97d frames, but this is a test so your choice over all. I have 8 Senn 80xx and will choose either 6 or all 8 in the 8n, and use them in the same first-6 order and port number in the F6, all plugged directly into the recorder - no cables. 24bit/48, or different (of course, both in the F6)? Individual tracks, no LR. Same Zoom Hirose DC cable power source. Add anything else.
  10. Got it. Back here when finished - a few days for me.
  11. Thanks. At this point the test is loading the recorder with mics in 24, and 32, and in dual modes (three tests), and running the recording until/if it breaks. I could do the same here with my unit and maybe my F4 or F8n or all three as a concurrent control. What does a break exhibit while the recorder is running? (I am not going to listen to hour after hour of daily living sounds in hope of hearing the event, as pleasant as that would be.)
  12. Up very early... Operation issues: Do these recorders you've received fail out on the box or during use? Use of 5min, ...? How long? Back in the beginning with my F6 copy, I kept losing date/time and emailed support. Turns out, despite my having AAs and an NP-F batteries loaded, they needed to be on USB power, they said, overnight or a day or so. I forget. Yesterday, after sitting these last several months unused, but with usual charged batteries, date/time was gone again. All good this AM after it's USB bath. No documentation for this. Next, do they fail during use? Duration? Do they fail under specific loads or conditions or settings? 6 mics? 3 MS pairs? Ambisonic? You mentioned dual mode. With/without timecode? Fill in anything that has been done and repeated. This is a new recent problem. Maybe a printed circuit or surface component after it heats up? Longer in the cold, shorter inside? Powering, since there is a cascade order of 3 possible sources? I read earlier today of a problem with an F4 powering-up. Still use mine at times, and it lost date/time last summer, but it's always on external DC. Undocumented/unknown there too. ??
  13. Has to be the HW/components, yet I don't see any in dealers used equipment inventory, and on auction and big sales sites the F6 listings are New at or above list price. By the way, the "GE" might be Germany models. I see "US" here in the old model codes. "IFS" is unknown, or maybe a Italy France Spain code; all leading back to, same batch/same problems. You cannot be so lucky to receive so many duds out of the number that are surely being sold.
  14. Report of another late yesterday, dual speed recording, F6, a good ExPro card, .... It's the most recent posting on the Facebook group F8n-6-3-2 forum. I suspect there are a good number more with machines that are not being pushed. I posted the usual and a reference to this thread. You'll go nuts there trying to calm things down between the various posts and comments. Zoom has to get this under control and issue a SW fix or a recall.
  15. No, nothing directly hardware or operation related, or with storage choices. Did you receive a new unit yet from Amazon?
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