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AMSTERDAM, SEPTEMBER 16, 2019 – The Sound Devices Scorpio premium portable mixer-recorder won PSNEurope’s “Best of Show” Award at IBC 2019. This year marked the Scorpio’s debut at Amsterdam’s International Broadcasting Show. Other new products that premiered at IBC were the Sound Devices 833 portable compact mixer-recorder and the MixPre II Series.
REEDSBURG, WIS., SEPTEMBER 11, 2019 – Sound Devices will unveil its 833 Portable Compact Mixer-Recorder at this year’s International Broadcasting Show in Amsterdam. IBC attendees will be the first to experience this new release from Sound Devices, which features 6 mic/line preamplifiers, 8 channels, a 256 GB internal SSD, and dual L-Mount charging and powering. […]
The most well-known benefit of 32-bit float files is that they have vast headroom, such that signal levels in excess of 0 dBFS do not clip. However there is an important fidelity benefit for very low signal levels too. We set up the following exaggerated scenario to highlight the differences between 32-bit float and 24-bit […]
The MixPre II recorders includes a new 32-bit float recording mode. To an experienced audio person, the promise of this “gain independent” type of recording seems too good to be true. For years, we’ve all been trained to set the gain high enough to get over the noise floor of the A-to-D converter (or the […]
Wingman is a free application for iOS and Android that provides remote control access to key functionality on the MixPre Series or any 6-Series mixer/recorder with the WM-Connect Bluetooth Smart® USB dongle. With Wingman, sound mixers gain touchscreen control of audio recording, metadata entry, and sound report creation & distribution. For the MixPre II, MixPre or […]
These samples were recorded on a MixPre-3 II to demonstrate the advantage of using 32-bit float WAV files for recording. We split a signal from a MKH40 mic into two MixPre-3 IIs, one recording 24-bit fixed WAVs, and the other 32-bit float WAVs. We then applied too much gain to loud dialogue. Low-cut was set […]