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  1. 17 minutes ago, Jeff Wexler said:

    Yes, there most certainly will be an NAB party this year. I am putting up a Save The Date notice very soon. This year marks the 29th year for the r.a.m.p.s. NAB party that morphed into the r.a.m.p.s./jwsound party in 2006. Watch for the announcement coming soon.


    Excellent! I know it's a little early, but I'm planning out work trips for the entire year. 

  2. 22 hours ago, Jim Feeley said:

     How much power does the Rodelink belt-pack tx put out? Isn't it something like 10mW (I really don't recall)?

     

     

    Rode won't publish that spec. When I was a dealer for them I asked a bunch of different people at Rode a bunch of different ways to try and get that spec, but could never get it. This was as of a year ago. Not sure if they changed that now. 

  3. On 5/4/2018 at 12:54 PM, Jim Feeley said:

     

     

     

    Or do you think some schools will foist the hardback onto students?

     

    If there is more money to be made by the publisher that way, then yes, they will do that. Nowadays publishers are also tying in online content to text books to combat the selling of used books. They'll make it so you have to purchase the book, and then there is online content that is required for a given class, and there is a pass key to use, which is only good once, so you can't re-sell the book, forcing students to purchase new books.

    The college text book market is super seedy and after my freshman year of college I vowed to never spend money on a text book again and went to the library and just made copies of the sections from books I needed for class since all the info was in the course syllabus on what part of the books we needed. Saved my self literally thousands of dollars in three years of college doing that. That was before the whole online content thing.

  4. Based on personal experience in manufacturing, NAB doesn't need to be the thing that a new product launches at. The past 5-8 years it's been a "wow, not a whole lot of new stuff at NAB" kind of thing. While there sure are new things at NAB this year, we live in a world where it is easy to announce a new product and get word out about it very quickly to many people at any time of the year. Last year SD released three new MixPre recorders, which have done very well, and they just recently announced the MixPre-10M. They announced ambeo recording support on these recorders at NAB. The 633 was announced and started shipping in the fall of the year it came out. At K-Tek, I wasn't as concerned with announcing something new at NAB. Product development cycles run their course, and if something is ready in the summer or fall or winter, then that's when it is ready. I much prefer announcing a new product when I can actually ship it rather than announce something and say "it won't be shipping for 6 months".

    At my new gig (Warm Audio), we announced our new mics and new mic pres when we were ready to ship, which was late last year and have shipped thousands of units so far. Waiting for a trade show was not optimal, nor necessary. Trade shows are great for meeting new potential re-sellers and end users, and is a chance for people to get their hands on gear if they don't live close to a re-seller, as well as see people we haven't seen in a while and network. It's not like it was in years past where manufacturers would scramble to get something ready for NAB because that's when you had to announce something and there were all kinds of big surprises.

  5. On 8/1/2017 at 5:03 PM, JonG said:

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    Here she is on my cart. It has had so many mods done, it really is one of a kind. Sonically, it is far superior to others of the same series. However, unlike the better known 1073 series, this is more neutral sounding with less harmonic distortion, and more dynamic range, but still has a big open sound that you really only get from an analog board. 

     

     

    I got to see this in person a while back when Nelson still had it, I believe. Very interesting piece of equipment.

  6. 5 hours ago, VAS said:

    Steinberg & Rupert Neve

     

    Steinberg team up with Rupert Neve – two new interfaces – UR-RT2 and UR-RT4, will be shipping from the beginning of June. “I’m very glad that we can work together with Steinberg. We are proud that we've helped move this type of sound quality and character into a new market and audience,” said Josh Thomas, general manager at Rupert Neve.

     

    The UR-RT2 comes with four inputs and two outputs, while the UR-RT4 boasts six inputs and four outputs. Both interfaces offer USB 2.0 and MIDI connectivity alongside a range of input/output options for laptop and iPad, as well as providing DSP-powered effects for zero- latency monitoring. Together with the studio-grade D-PRE preamps by Yamaha and the featured Rupert Neve Designs transformers.

     

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    I'd like to see details on this transformer.

  7. 1 hour ago, Mobilemike said:

    Does that apply even if you power the MP10T externally?

     

    I.E., can you feed the MP10T external power and connect to the computer with one USB-A cable and get all channels and functionality?

     

    Thanks!
    -Mike

    I'm not sure on this one. I don't have a MP-10T any more to try it out with, but I think so. It's not just about power but also about the amount of data as well. 

  8. On 1/7/2018 at 3:48 AM, ronfya said:

    Hey guys, does somebody know if the 10T can be used as an audio interface on a computer using only USB-A ? (even being in "reduced mode" like I believe the MixPre-6 can do allowing only 2 channels) ?

     

    I would really like to purchase the 10T for field and studio needs but I have a 2012 macbook with only USB-A's so I was wondering if I would be able to use the 10T at all on that computer.

     

    Thanks,

     

    Cheers.

    Yes, but you need 2 USB-A ports. SD has a USB-C to 2x USB-A splitter cable that you'll need to use. 

  9. On 12/31/2017 at 8:14 PM, IronFilm said:

     Surely this is a niche that coud be served, & someone should make an HDMI spillitter which preserves this?

     

    I was wondering about this, actually. I currently have my MixPre-6 connected to my Sony a6500 camera via HDMI, and it remote fires the MixPre-6 when I go into record on the camera, BUT, I'm going to be getting an external LCD monitor so I can easily monitor video (I shoot my youtube videos by myself most of the time) and I'd like to be able to use the monitor and the HDMI functionality of the MixPre-6 at the same. I'm seeing a bunch of HDMI switchers online, but not a hub in the "USB Hub" sense of the word. 

  10. Manufacturer photos are typically done to highlight what a product looks like, and don't necessarily reflect the way something will be used (Proof: I used to be a manufacturer and have taken loads of product photos). 

     

    The optimal location of a mic in a windshield is having it be in the exact center of the windshield. The effectiveness of a windshield is the amount of dead air around the microphone, so you don't want it really far up in the windshield or really far back or too much off to one side. You want it smack dab in the middle. Covering up some of the tube slots isn't going to have a real big negative effect on the mic. 

  11. You can use the direct outs of any mixer (that has them) to then go into the MixPre-10T. You can route anything you want to the outputs of the 10T as well, so you can send a return to the mixer and monitor it that way. 

     

    I could see it getting a little clumsy, though. You'd have to be careful to keep track of what you have routed to the L+R tracks on the MP-10T. It doesn't have infinite routing. The inputs go to their tracks, and then you can pan those tracks left, center, or right, and that's it. Like I said about the outputs, you can send anything you want to the left or right. 

    So, this means you need to make sure you assign what you want to the L and R on the MP-10T. You'd also need to make sure you have your levels calibrated properly. 

    Even then, the mic pres are so good in the MixPre recorders I'd want to put something really nice in front of it, and that won't be cheap. 

  12. 12 hours ago, IronFilm said:


    You hook it up to a camera with an HDMI cable coming out the camera, and if the HDMI trigger is set up right on both then the MixPre will automatically start recording too (with the correct time) when the camera itself starts recording. (there are lots and lots of external video recorders which work this way too, such as from Atomos, Convergent Design, Blackmagic Design, or Video Devices)

     

     

    Just know that it won't work with every single camera that has an HDMI port on it. The camera manufacturers haven't standardized this sort of thing. ALSO, if you try to daisy chain devices, like going from a camera to an Atomos, and then to your recorder, it can create some weirdness....at least that's what one customer reported to me recently. 

     

     

  13. On December 7, 2017 at 2:36 PM, jpb2 said:

    Hey Paul, I love the design of this 10t. Its a game changer for the price point!  Can't wait to get one and try it out for Xmas. Ahhhmmm (clear my throat) hope my ex wife sees this to put it on my Santa list.... Wait, my ex ain't gonna buy me one... Hell, she's off my Xmas list and I am buying one for myself! I've  been naughty enough!  JP Borden   P.S. Happy Festivus!

     

    Let me know if you want to demo it. You can use my MP-10t to play with. 

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