chrismedr

what would you like translated? most of the info should be pretty straightforward, like: KORTWICH Mikrofon Vorverstärker 3x Mikrofon IN 3x PH 48V ON/OFF 3x OUT für z.B. SD 633 Line IN 3x Pegelsteller 2x Hirose DC IN und OUT 598 € netto / lieferbar "pegelsteller" basically means gain knobs and "netto" means plus VAT (tax, which people outside of europe probably wouldnt have to pay) nice little unit, i'd be tempted to get a MixPre instead unless i absolutely need 6 mic inputs (instead of 5). ++ c. chris

to me it sounds very much like a MKH 50 with extended bass response (which, btw, makes a low cut filter mandatory for clumsy boomers like me) chris

i noticed the "five" AA in the manual too - but later on they mention 6 AA, so i assume it's a miss-print (besides, you'd have to insert a dummy cell to make contact, which would not only be weird but a waste of space) been running it on 6 eneloop and eneloop XX without any issues. chris

the Sanyo 2700mAh have the advantage of being very affordable, and if you use them straight out of the charger you'll get maybe 10% longer runtime over a eneloop 2500mAh on low current draw devices. however, in many conditions, like if you leave them unused for a few days or if the device draws high current then you'll be better off with the eneloop 2500... and for long storage times or very high current draws the eneloop 2000mAh are still king (at a good price too). personally the convenience of low discharge with the eneloop is more important to me then the slightly higher (true) capacity of any of the 2700mAh+ cells - plus they are fantastic cells otherwise too, so i don't use any other batteries anymore. chris

can't seem to find them.. do you have a link where to buy them?

there are Sanyo 2700mAh, but no eneloop version afaik. the 2700mAh are similar to other high capacity NiMhs, i.e.: if you take them straight out of the charger and go to work, they show nice high capacity (and the sanyo can be found very cheap) if you leave them unused for a couple of days, they will have dropped below the eneloop 2500mAh in usable capacity. if you leave them unused for a couple of weeks, they will be even below the eneloop 2000aAh. personally i use the 2500 eneloop for everything that needs long runtimes and the 2000 eneloop for pretty everything else. chris

managed to make a basic python script for renaming the audio files which will rename the audio file according to their enclosing folder.. for me the main advantage is that this way each sound file will have an unique file name and i wont have several T01.WAV files in the editing system which makes re-linking a pain. if you're on OSX, you can start the script from the terminal by typing: python /full/path/to/script_file.py code below (or also on pastebin: http://pastebin.com/5uC2GQvU ) chris #!/usr/bin/python # rename_633.py # v1.00 # # python script for renaming the audio files of the # sound devices 633 recorder # # it will help to make file names unique because by default # the SD 633 will default to T01.WAV for each scene/day. # the script in it's curremt state will rename the TXX.WAV # files and add the directory to the name, so if you use daily # folders the clips will be renamed to YXXMXXDXX-TXX.WAV # # it's a fairly straight forward python script, and does basic # error checking, but as always make a backup of mission # critical files before using it. import os def rename_633(): topdir = raw_input("main audio directory to process?: ") # input checking of the topdirectory if not os.path.isdir(topdir): if os.path.isdir(topdir.rstrip()): print "it seems you have entered a path with a trailing whitespace. remove the whitespace and try again? (y/n) " remove_whitespace = raw_input() if remove_whitespace != 'y': exit(0) else: topdir = topdir.rstrip() elif os.path.isdir(topdir.replace("","")): print "it seems you have entered a path with spaces escaped with a backslash. remove the backslash and try again? (y/n) " remove_backslash = raw_input() if remove_backslash != 'y': exit(0) else: topdir = topdir.replace("","") else: print "directory doesn't exist" exit(0) # finally rename the files for root, dirs, files in os.walk(topdir): for each_file in files: if each_file.endswith('.WAV'): folder_name = os.path.basename(root) old_file_path = os.path.join(root, each_file) # new file name will be generated, default is DIRECTORY-TXX.WAV new_file_name = folder_name + '-' + each_file new_file_path = os.path.join(root, new_file_name) print 'renaming ' + old_file_path + ' to -> ' + new_file_path # check for name collisions if os.path.exists(new_file_path): print "a file with that name already exists. stopping process" exit(0) else: os.rename(old_file_path, new_file_path) rename_633()

Matt, thanks a lot, that was what i was looking for (well nearly, a date option would have been nice but doing it manually works too) i stupidly assumed that entering a scene name would only create a scene folder and not change the file name itself. yeah, with TXX i meant T01, T02, T03 etc - sorry for the confusion. i thought about writing a script that will automatically rename all the files according to the daily folder, but my programming skills are kinda rusty. might be a good moment to freshen it up i'll post it here if i get around to it. chris

well, i have a similar question (if not the same): what if i'd like my file naming sheme to be something else then TXX? i understand that i can have a daily and a scene folder with custom names, but i can't seem to find a way to change the file name itself. i'd like to have it named something like YYYYMMDD-TXX for example. chris