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These are the official rules but just keep your transmitters no higher than 50mW and I recall the 2x I was there (years ago) that I was using block 24 and 21 at the time and didn't have any issues. I'm sure things have changed in the last 10 years though so YMMV.

Straight from the horse's mouth at Sound Devices recent Instagram post...

HAM radio in your pocket! But yes, it seems the digital vs analog transmission mW is different in the sense that digital seems to do way better with less power.

Seems like a great piece of kit per usual with Lectro. That being said, at $2449 USD and no remote capability (that we know of other than dweedle tones), starting to really pale in comparison to the competition at this price point.

I'd tell them to pound sand then. What's next, you need to pay them for the catering too? If production doesn't want liability, then they shouldn't be creating a production.

My accountant has advised me NOT to do an S Corp / LLC etc at this time as I'd just end up paying more taxes than I already am here in California.

I'd get a quote from Sonosax directly on what a look over / refresh would go for and then negotiate the sale of the unit accordingly knowing what it would take to get it up to par. Sonosax analog boards are like the Bugatti of the sound world. You wouldn't just take it down to Crazy Eddy's Car Repair for repair or a look over as they are truly something special.

I'd imagine that, once the dust clears, someone would probably be able to fix small problems? Hell, you can still get your Nagra repaired back to factory spec so I'd hope you'd be able to be able to fix a machine that literally existed up until this year!

I'd be down for an app like this, especially if you could control multiple machines. I currently have one 788t but am contemplating picking up a second as I've created a workflow with a 2nd unit summing through the link port of my Solice and it's sounding great. These things are workhorses and the only real negative things about them is that you do have to dig through the rotary menu vs a modern app that could speed things like metadata up.

I'm beating a dead horse at this point but you could just use any of the Sennheiser G3/G4 receivers, turn off the pilot tone on them and voila, they pick up the Lectro IFB signal. Been using them for camera hops for years with the great reliability of the Lectro transmission (+ R1a's for video village etc picking up the same signal).

Honestly if they just made an F16n, maybe threw some AES inputs on it and called it a day, that would be fine too. I'd love a small, 5 channel mixer recorder with phantom and a great mic pre on channel 1, then a super slot for a 4 channel receiver built in as boom + 4 lavs would cover most of my use cases.

It's a bummer they discontinued that recorder. They rarely pop up on the used market too and when they do, sell for some pretty big coin quickly. That new Yamaha DC powered dante board into one would be great for high track count stuff into one of those (although it seems people are using that Yamaha's USB into a laptop with Boom Recorder too).

Might be a good candidate. What the market needs is something to fill the big price vacuum between a Zoom F8N and an 833.

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There's some studios in LA that still have these decks in working order for archiving purposes. Haven't used them but a cursory search led to these guys: https://www.deepsignalstudios.com/