Anniversary
PIX240i/220i: Sharper than ever – 2011
“The PIX240i came out a year after the original PIX240. The only real difference between the two was a much better looking IPS display. The original PIX240’s display exhibited jello-like wobble when a camera panned and was displaying it on the screen. It was a rolling-shutter-like artifact, but on the screen instead of a camera […]
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PIX240: Sound and Video, friends 4 ever – 2011
“The PIX 240 was our first video product. We (perhaps naively) thought we could parlay our digital recording and timecode expertise into a new market: video. We fielded calls almost daily about timecode and how to sync up sound with video. We figured – why not record both on one device? I could never convince […]
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MixPre-D: A blend of old and new
“The original MixPre came out in the year 2000, and in the intervening years, USB digital audio had grown in popularity. This new version, called the MixPre-D, is in some ways one of the coolest products we’ve made, as it was the last of our transformer-based input products. I took the digital guts (Blackfin DSP) […]
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USBPre 2: Still Being Made in Reedsburg, Wisconsin
“After 10 years of making the original USBPre1.5, we had learned a lot and solicited lots of customer feedback. Also many of the parts from the original USBPre1.5 had gone obsolete. I designed the entire USBPre-2 with new improved mic preamps – class A long-tail pair with discrete transistors, better metering, and used the Blackfin […]
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CL-9: Our First LinearFader Control Surface – 2010
“The CL-9 was the first of our flat-panel fader panels in the growing 788T ecosystem. Like the CL-8, this was also an ‘after-the-fact’ development. Since I knew that the USB port would work for this function, I designed the CL-9 around this port. Jason McDonald (Mechanical Engineering) as usual did the mechanicals, and Francois Morin […]
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552: Love him or hate him, here’s SVEN – 2009
“The 552 (and the 788T) was the start of the melding of mixers and recorders for Sound Devices. Of course we now have both the MixPre line and the 8-Series line, both of which are mixer-recorders. But before the 552, these were physically two different devices, and it was quite popular to carry the 442 […]
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