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Ah. Excellent and thank you guys. I'll grab that one from Trew Audio. I owe them a cake or something for getting me my MAXX so early. I'll pick it up with a special delivery

Just a quick question. I've been using MAXX out if the field for a bit now, however, coming up I'm going to be doing more studio based work and I won't need battery power here. Anybody have a recommendation for a good hirose a/c adapter or other solution for hard line power? Thanks!

Cheers Glenn. I'm very happy with this little guy. You guys got me to switch over with this thing as it suites my needs perfectly. One thing I'd like to request, and hopefully it isn't a biggy, is to allow users to format media while mirroring is turned on. Other than that, I'm very satisfied. Love Neverclip and the preamps. Clean and sensitive with room to play.

Thought about it, still thinking about. Might be the route I go. Timecode Buddy might be a "more fun" solution with a few added benefits. A simpler solution is to use the transmitters and receivers I have to send signal from MAXX to camera(s) and slate. Deciding on the workflow right now.

Just thought I'd swing by for a quick update. 3 production days this week. MAXX worked great. Jammed timecode on the Red Epic, syncs up just fine in post. Totally agree on these preamps. Sounds great. I'm now using two 64GB Transcend compact flash cards which work just fine. Next mission for this particular kit is wireless timecode sync. That's next weeks project.

Cheers gents. The card that "isn't loving the Maxx" is a 600x 32GB Kingston, which is interesting because it seems to like a 32GB 133x Kingston card just fine. I'll send them a list, I've got more cards laying around here to test. These are legit brand cards and aren't knock offs. My SanDisk 32GB 90MB/s seems to work. I'll pick up some 64GB Transcends for this kit. Maxx is getting it's own little setup. So far I'm really happy with the build quality and audio quality. Nothing but smiles on that front and that's the important stuff to me. Also, want to thank Colleen at Zaxcom for helping me along the way before it's release. Based on the tests I've done I believe we'll be using it on set this week without any concern.

@Rado - Congrats on picking yours up as well! I've used Nomad, but I'm coming from Sound Devices (and some smaller non-timecode field recorders, Zoom and Marantz). I'm happy with the software itself. Navigation/operation is simple enough. There's quirky things, like I think I should be able to format a memory card while "mirroring" is on, don't see a reason why I shouldn't be able to. I've also learned that Maxx isn't happy with certain Compact Flash cards. I tested 4 brands (all 32GB), two are working "cleanly". Folks are telling me to go with Transcend, which I don't have here. Working with Marf/.ZAX is relatively new to me, but for the time being I'm using the BWF from the mirror as that's getting me exactly what I'm after. Zaxconvert didn't like the Marfs from a couple of those cards and I did get an error and "noise" in the file upon conversion. Gotta look into that a bit more. It would be nice to have option to disable marf as a format to access 100% of the media space for "certain types of sampling". Did some timecode tests. There doesn't seem to be a TOD clock on the Maxx, at least not one I found yet (and perhaps it's not enabled in firmware). I feed TC to my Red Epic though at it works fine via free-run. It was detectable and read properly when syncing video to audio in several software packages. Going to likely pick up a Timecode Buddy next week to make that lack of TOD sort of a non-issue anyways. I'm using a Hirose to D-Tap and connected to a 160Wh V-Mount battery. I've been testing the Maxx for 3 days and it hasn't drained that yet. That's great news as these are pretty much what I have here. I'm making a list of thoughts and might call up Zaxcom with those notes next week. So far I'm really impressed by it and I'm digging Neverclip. Already knocked out some loud samples and vocals. Sounds great. Lots of range and the preamps sound great when really pushed. Nice and clean.

I picked up the Maxx on Wednesday from the folks at Trew Audio in Hollywood. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151751817698699&set=a.417990668698.187201.304780963698&type=1&relevant_count=1 Big thanks to Ryan for helping me get one so fast. Didn't realize it was "that fast" I'm a couple days into it now having Maxx in my hands and trying to break things. Certainly some things to work on when it comes to software, but the quality of the audio is pretty nice. Neverclip/ISO Attenuation is indeed interesting. Sort of makes you rethink things a bit. Sampled some clanging wrenches with it on and off. Pretty neat having that extra headroom actually. Helps for vocal work too. I've tested it out mostly with my Sennheiser MKH416 and it's working great so far. I'll put a few more mics on it in the coming days and I'm doing my big timecode/sync with camera test this evening. Hopefully it's all gravy. As of this moment, it's a pretty damn handy and powerful field recorder and mixer.

Aloha, just registered over here. I've been looking at the Maxx because it covers most of my needs. There's no published manual, but does anybody here know if the Maxx supports start/stop via timecode?