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Locating Sound Devices Product Serial Numbers
Sound Devices product serial numbers are 12 digit sequences located on white bar code stickers. The bar code sticker is located on the back of 7-Series recorders. When a battery is in place, the serial number sticker is not visible. The bar code sticker is located on the bottom panel for all other Sound Devices […]
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With a near complete shift from tape-based digital (DAT) and analog recording formats to file-based digital audio recording formats, the choices of audio file types have exploded. In the recent past, audio engineers would set their DAT recorder to 48 kHz, record its two audio tracks as either dual-mono or stereo, and would then concentrate […]
Read The Full Article442 Tone Oscillator Polarity
The polarity of the 442 and 442N mixers tone oscillator is inverted between the main outputs and the direct outputs. This polarity “flip” only affects the tone oscillator and not audio signals.
Read The Full ArticlePurchasing Sound Devices Demo Stock
Q: I will be coming to Las Vegas for the NAB show this Spring and want to know if I can purchase one of your demo units after the show. You don’t really want to ship that stuff back to Wisconsin, do you?
Read The Full ArticleRecommendations for Direct Recording to DVD-RAM
DVD-RAM is a convenient interchange medium between audio recorders and post production. While DVD-RAM disks share the same size and capacity as DVD-R, DVD+R, DVD-RW, and DVD+RW disks, it is easier to think of DVD-RAM as an “optical hard disk”.
Read The Full Article702T and 744T Time-of-Day Accuracy
The 702T and 744T recorders excel in applications requiring precise time code synchronization. To achieve precision time code, these units have extremely accurate internal clocks to generate the time code.
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