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	<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 22:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Syncing the 788T with External Video and Audio</title>
		<link>http://www.sounddevices.com/notes/recorders/sync-the-788t/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sound Devices</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Digital Recorders]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sounddevices.com/notes/?p=217</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When two or more devices are intended to record or playback in sync, it is important to ensure that their word clock sources are locked together to prevent drift between the devices. For digital audio devices, audio sampling rate determines speed. For picture equipment, it is frame rate. Failure to lock audio devices can result [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Camera Returns with the 788T</title>
		<link>http://www.sounddevices.com/notes/recorders/camera-returns-with-788t/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sound Devices</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Digital Recorders]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.sounddevices.com/notes/?p=214</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The 788T has been designed as a ‘big brother’ to the 744T recorder, offering many more inputs and greater headphone monitoring capabilities. Although it is designed as a recorder (not a mixer/recorder), it does offer some mixer-like functionality. One of these functions is the ability to use unused inputs as camera returns.

In situations not requiring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CompactFlash Speed Comparison Using the 788T</title>
		<link>http://www.sounddevices.com/notes/recorders/file-formats/cf-speeds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sound Devices</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[File Formats]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The chart below shows speed test results for transfers between a 788T and a MacBook Pro. The selection of storage medium is based on common CompactFlash cards commercially available as of April 11, 2008



Make
Model
Size
Firewire 800
Firewire 400
USB 2.0





Read
Write
Read
Write
Read
Write


Samsung
HM160HI (788T Internal Hard Drive)
160GB
38.40 MB/s
27.94 MB/s
27.09 MB/s
23.78 MB/s
28.55 MB/s
25.50 MB/s


Pretec
CFS248G (233X)
48GB
40.27 MB/s
15.13 MB/s
33.23 MB/s
12.03 MB/s
32.63 MB/s
10.84 MB/s


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		<title>Hard Drive Failure Modes</title>
		<link>http://www.sounddevices.com/notes/recorders/storage/hard-drive-failure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sound Devices</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[File Storage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hard disk drives are mechanical devices and are susceptible to damage from physical shock. One type of physical shock, called operating shock, occurs when the disk is in operation. During operation, the drive head is typically over the drive platters reading and writing data. When a physical shock to the drive occurs during operation, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>XL-40 Attenuating Cable Schematic</title>
		<link>http://www.sounddevices.com/notes/general/xl40-schematic/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sounddevices.com/notes/general/xl40-schematic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 03:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sound Devices</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General Audio]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over the years, several accessory cables have come and gone. The XL-40 was a simple XLR male to XLR female cable with a switch-selected 40 dB pad. Although this cable is discontinued, it is still useful in many situations. The following is a diagram of the XL-40 so that you can build your own.

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		<title>USBPre Audio Settings in Windows Vista</title>
		<link>http://www.sounddevices.com/notes/usbpre/usbpre-vista-settings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sounddevices.com/notes/usbpre/usbpre-vista-settings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:12:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sound Devices</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[USBPre]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Q: I am running Windows Vista on my home computer. After installing the drivers that came with the installation CD, I am only getting one channel from my USBPre. Am I missing something?
A: Windows Vista does not allow our software to change the default audio settings of the operating system, so this change should help [...]]]></description>
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		<title>T-Powering Basics</title>
		<link>http://www.sounddevices.com/notes/mixers/powering-mixers/t-powering/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sounddevices.com/notes/mixers/powering-mixers/t-powering/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sound Devices</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Powering]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[T-power, also known as Parallel, A-B, or Tonaderspeisung powering, was one of the original techniques used to power condenser microphones remotely from mixing consoles. It uses the microphone cable as the power conductor, eliminating the need for  batteries or external power supplies. Phantom powering has effectively displaced T-powering as the standard microphone powering technique. [...]]]></description>
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