Wandering Ear

16 hours ago, John Blankenship said:

 

On initial ZMT3 transmitter tests, both "Remote Standby" and "LOW2" offer about a 2:1 battery life savings.  

 

Good to know.  I've never really compared the difference in a measurable way.  Thanks

Ah.  Thanks

6 hours ago, John Blankenship said:

Bottom line:  If it works, and your ears are in agreement, use it and enjoy the great sound.  

Words to mix by.

I wonder what the difference is between this and the emc series shielded xlr's?

Yeah, I guess I'm being a little loose with my verbage.

1 hour ago, Karri said:

 

The transmitter only outputs 3.3 V though, according to the specs? So wouldn't this rule out the 4060 for instance? Or am I missing something (I'm not the most electronics-savvy I'll admit)?

While 3.3v may not "technically" be up to spec for some mics, in practice the 4060 performs just fine.  I am using a 4061 on a zmt3 as I type this and it sounds great.

Thanks Klaus for the great write up.  I didn't know that regen was also retuning the clock.

On 4/14/2019 at 6:00 PM, John Blankenship said:

 

That’s how I remember it.  They did so because there is little power consumption difference between RF power levels.  Sleep should still save battery life. 

Exactly right.   I have been sleeping my zmt3 throughout the day today via zaxnet and it definitely makes a difference in battery life 

They took power roll out, not sleep.  

Also the tuning process on the Arri's happens in the background and doesn't affect normal operation.

6 hours ago, glenn said:

Run time is 12 Hours at 75mw output power.

 

Glenn

Lovely.  That's pretty impressive.

1 hour ago, Constantin said:

12 hours is very cool, but I wonder on which power setting? When they say „up to 12 hours“? 

Also, the dual MicroDot input is very nice. Already liked that on the Flex, but that was too large, now it’s getting more interesting. The whole shape that transmitter has now might enable better hiding compared to the regular ZMT

This is a good point.  Hopefully that's 12 hours at at least 50mw + recording.

12 hours on a single battery is pretty great.  I'm not familiar with the BT100 battery, and having already 2 different kinds of batteries for my lavs, I'm unlikely to want to add a 3rd.  I don't really do them, but there will be shows that will need the battery life.

This looks like a nice and compact upgrade to my 4 channel bag.  I think the banked rotary encoders will be a great feature once getting used to using them.

That looks great.  I've always wanted a portable UHF receiver that I can use to check a talents wire if I'm wiring off set.  Will be great for boom op monitoring too.

6 minutes ago, Mirror said:

I wonder if SD will be making their own control surface for this in the future.  If so, I'm in.  Not a big fan of layering faders to get past 8 pot count.

With the Icon system you can add additional fader panels to get as many faders as you need.  You don't have to use banks if you don't want.

If used with an Icon M+ surface, can tracks 1-12 be controlled by the M+, or only with the rotary faders on the unit?

3 hours ago, Constantin said:

 

Of course, I wouldn’t expect them to. Mackie Control is capable of many controls so it remains to be seen how that will translate to the Scorpio. But generally, I think allowing 3rd party controller access is a brilliant move

Found the MCU control list:

"Control and display parameters include the following: 1. Channel Name 2. Channel Faders 3. Channel Trims 4 Channel Pans 5. Channel Mutes 6. Channel Solos 7. Channel Record Arm/Disarm 8. Channel “fat channel” (Source, Limiter, HPF, EQ, Bus sends) 9. Channel bank switching 10. Bus Master Faders 11. Output Master Faders 12. Transport Controls"

1 minute ago, Jim Feeley said:

 

As you may have already seen, SD addresses this in their FAQ:

 

 

I was paraphrasing from the faq's.

9 minutes ago, Constantin said:

 

Of course, I wouldn’t expect them to. Mackie Control is capable of many controls so it remains to be seen how that will translate to the Scorpio. But generally, I think allowing 3rd party controller access is a brilliant move

Agreed

9 minutes ago, Constantin said:

I never liked the CL-12 anyway, and control for any (controller) is pretty cool - depending on the protocol used and if SD is going to allow control of as many functions as possible. 

 

But what will sway me mostly to buy one, will be the extra features. If it’s „just“ a recorder with many inputs, I‘m not really all that interested. I‘m very curious what functions they imported from the MixPre, like the overdub and re-record, AutoMix and more? 

That will make a big difference 

It's Mackie Control so a lot of different surfaces should work, but SD sounds like they don't want to provide technical support for other surfaces understandably.

Just now, joi b said:

What does the antenna plug do?

Will be able to connect to the tablet app via Bluetooth in the future.

Just now, Jose Frias said:

 

Kelsey, you and I are on the same wavelength. Exactly what I was thinking!

I have been toying with the idea of using an Icon M+ controller and Reaper for an in the box live mixing / recording rig to get rid of the console, but am always too worried about reliability for a live broadcast.  This plus a dante enabled effects server is much better.

And I just noticed they included Word Clock on the TC connector.  Lovely.

This is really exciting for me.  I've been considering a change to my dante system, one of the main things I want is to reduce the size from a full 16 fader console + stage boxes.  Scorpio plus a controller will be drastically smaller & lighter, and much easier to fly with.  

Many design decisions in this recorder are right in line for me, TA4 for power instead of hirose, Icon M+ controller support, 32 Channels in a 688 form factor, redundant networking.  Well done Sound Devices.   

I also appreciate SD's humor in their faq's. 

At least this version has a headphone output. 

Just realized the HP port is on the EVF, maybe that will work with the original mini too.  That would be nice.