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CL-1 Logic I/O Assignment
When a logic connection has been assigned as a logic output in the Setup Menu (CL-1: Logic Out Assign), it cannot also be assigned as an input until removing its output assignment.
Read The Full ArticleBattery Life of the 7-Series Recorders
Q: What is the battery life of these recorders?
Read The Full ArticleNavigation of Menus by Sightless (Blind) Users
Q: I’m a blind technician. Most digital recorders can’t be used by people with a visually handicap. The design of the buttons on the recorders is really wonderful and made for tactile use.
Read The Full ArticlePeak Limiter Attack Time
Q: While recording some foley FX with sharp transients, even with the limiter engaged I was still hitting getting close to 0 dBFS. I was under the impression that the limiter threshold was -6 dBFS (according to the manual). What am I seeing?
Read The Full ArticleWord Clock Termination
Sound Devices’ word clock connections on 7-Series recorders do not have a 75 ohm terminating impedance. We do this because several units can be connected without over-loading the unit driving it. In most situations, using no termination works just fine.
Read The Full ArticleOutput Balancing Topologies
Of Equal and Opposites Of the dizzying array of questions that the expansive and all-knowing Sound Devices Technical Support Department fields, the one which has the most people confused, bamboozled, and flummoxed is: “What is this ‘impedance’ balanced output stage that you use on on early MixPre’s and the TA3 outputs of the 442?” Here […]
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