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Just ordered a Marantz PMD670 - any comments?
I checked out a lot of option and although expensive, this seemed to
be the best. With CF cards dropping (1 gig for about $150 at New Egg) this seemed like a good capture option. I will be using this primarily for depositions, hearings, witness statements,etc etc. Until now I have been using an analog tape and then capturing to a hard drive with Adobe Audition. That's kind of a pain although it does work. There is a 30 day return period so if anyone has any comments on this device I am interested. Thanks |
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These were the recorders we chose for a 5 station cluster for which I
did newsroom egineering. The original models were battery hogs but that was the only problem along with the high cost of the media at the time. As you have mentioned, the media cost has dropped severely. The battery problem is said to have been improved. These machines were getting banged around on outside assignments and seemed able to take the punishment. If you treat it well, it should work just fine. On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 18:05:43 -0400, John H. Power wrote: I checked out a lot of option and although expensive, this seemed to be the best. With CF cards dropping (1 gig for about $150 at New Egg) this seemed like a good capture option. I will be using this primarily for depositions, hearings, witness statements,etc etc. Until now I have been using an analog tape and then capturing to a hard drive with Adobe Audition. That's kind of a pain although it does work. There is a 30 day return period so if anyone has any comments on this device I am interested. Thanks Mike Cleaver Broadcast Services Voice-overs, Newscaster, Engineering and Consulting Vancouver, BC, Canada |
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These were the recorders we chose for a 5 station cluster for which I
did newsroom egineering. The original models were battery hogs but that was the only problem along with the high cost of the media at the time. As you have mentioned, the media cost has dropped severely. The battery problem is said to have been improved. These machines were getting banged around on outside assignments and seemed able to take the punishment. If you treat it well, it should work just fine. On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 18:05:43 -0400, John H. Power wrote: I checked out a lot of option and although expensive, this seemed to be the best. With CF cards dropping (1 gig for about $150 at New Egg) this seemed like a good capture option. I will be using this primarily for depositions, hearings, witness statements,etc etc. Until now I have been using an analog tape and then capturing to a hard drive with Adobe Audition. That's kind of a pain although it does work. There is a 30 day return period so if anyone has any comments on this device I am interested. Thanks Mike Cleaver Broadcast Services Voice-overs, Newscaster, Engineering and Consulting Vancouver, BC, Canada |
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On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 22:27:34 GMT, Mike Cleaver
wrote: These were the recorders we chose for a 5 station cluster for which I did newsroom egineering. The original models were battery hogs but that was the only problem along with the high cost of the media at the time. As you have mentioned, the media cost has dropped severely. The battery problem is said to have been improved. These machines were getting banged around on outside assignments and seemed able to take the punishment. If you treat it well, it should work just fine. On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 18:05:43 -0400, John H. Power wrote: I checked out a lot of option and although expensive, this seemed to be the best. With CF cards dropping (1 gig for about $150 at New Egg) this seemed like a good capture option. I will be using this primarily for depositions, hearings, witness statements,etc etc. Until now I have been using an analog tape and then capturing to a hard drive with Adobe Audition. That's kind of a pain although it does work. There is a 30 day return period so if anyone has any comments on this device I am interested. Thanks Mike Cleaver Broadcast Services Voice-overs, Newscaster, Engineering and Consulting Vancouver, BC, Canada Thanks for the input. In most cases I will have electrical inputs. I am assuming I can plug this in if necessary. Is that correct? |
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On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 22:27:34 GMT, Mike Cleaver
wrote: These were the recorders we chose for a 5 station cluster for which I did newsroom egineering. The original models were battery hogs but that was the only problem along with the high cost of the media at the time. As you have mentioned, the media cost has dropped severely. The battery problem is said to have been improved. These machines were getting banged around on outside assignments and seemed able to take the punishment. If you treat it well, it should work just fine. On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 18:05:43 -0400, John H. Power wrote: I checked out a lot of option and although expensive, this seemed to be the best. With CF cards dropping (1 gig for about $150 at New Egg) this seemed like a good capture option. I will be using this primarily for depositions, hearings, witness statements,etc etc. Until now I have been using an analog tape and then capturing to a hard drive with Adobe Audition. That's kind of a pain although it does work. There is a 30 day return period so if anyone has any comments on this device I am interested. Thanks Mike Cleaver Broadcast Services Voice-overs, Newscaster, Engineering and Consulting Vancouver, BC, Canada Thanks for the input. In most cases I will have electrical inputs. I am assuming I can plug this in if necessary. Is that correct? |
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yes in that case you might want to order the rechargeable battery
option as well and just use regular batteries as an emergency backup. On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 18:44:19 -0400, John H. Power wrote: On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 22:27:34 GMT, Mike Cleaver wrote: These were the recorders we chose for a 5 station cluster for which I did newsroom egineering. The original models were battery hogs but that was the only problem along with the high cost of the media at the time. As you have mentioned, the media cost has dropped severely. The battery problem is said to have been improved. These machines were getting banged around on outside assignments and seemed able to take the punishment. If you treat it well, it should work just fine. On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 18:05:43 -0400, John H. Power wrote: I checked out a lot of option and although expensive, this seemed to be the best. With CF cards dropping (1 gig for about $150 at New Egg) this seemed like a good capture option. I will be using this primarily for depositions, hearings, witness statements,etc etc. Until now I have been using an analog tape and then capturing to a hard drive with Adobe Audition. That's kind of a pain although it does work. There is a 30 day return period so if anyone has any comments on this device I am interested. Thanks Mike Cleaver Broadcast Services Voice-overs, Newscaster, Engineering and Consulting Vancouver, BC, Canada Thanks for the input. In most cases I will have electrical inputs. I am assuming I can plug this in if necessary. Is that correct? Mike Cleaver Broadcast Services Voice-overs, Newscaster, Engineering and Consulting Vancouver, BC, Canada |
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yes in that case you might want to order the rechargeable battery
option as well and just use regular batteries as an emergency backup. On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 18:44:19 -0400, John H. Power wrote: On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 22:27:34 GMT, Mike Cleaver wrote: These were the recorders we chose for a 5 station cluster for which I did newsroom egineering. The original models were battery hogs but that was the only problem along with the high cost of the media at the time. As you have mentioned, the media cost has dropped severely. The battery problem is said to have been improved. These machines were getting banged around on outside assignments and seemed able to take the punishment. If you treat it well, it should work just fine. On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 18:05:43 -0400, John H. Power wrote: I checked out a lot of option and although expensive, this seemed to be the best. With CF cards dropping (1 gig for about $150 at New Egg) this seemed like a good capture option. I will be using this primarily for depositions, hearings, witness statements,etc etc. Until now I have been using an analog tape and then capturing to a hard drive with Adobe Audition. That's kind of a pain although it does work. There is a 30 day return period so if anyone has any comments on this device I am interested. Thanks Mike Cleaver Broadcast Services Voice-overs, Newscaster, Engineering and Consulting Vancouver, BC, Canada Thanks for the input. In most cases I will have electrical inputs. I am assuming I can plug this in if necessary. Is that correct? Mike Cleaver Broadcast Services Voice-overs, Newscaster, Engineering and Consulting Vancouver, BC, Canada |
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John H. Power wrote: I checked out a lot of option and although expensive, this seemed to be the best. With CF cards dropping (1 gig for about $150 at New Egg) this seemed like a good capture option. I will be using this primarily for depositions, hearings, witness statements,etc etc. Until now I have been using an analog tape and then capturing to a hard drive with Adobe Audition. That's kind of a pain although it does work. There is a 30 day return period so if anyone has any comments on this device I am interested. It's a good choice for your applications. It won't do 24/96, is perhaps larger than it needs to be, has had some reports of battery problems but it's a good value at the price. -- Len Moskowitz PDAudio, Binaural Mics, Cables, DPA, M-Audio Core Sound http://www.stealthmicrophones.com Teaneck, New Jersey USA http://www.core-sound.com Tel: 201-801-0812, FAX: 201-801-0912 |
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John H. Power wrote: I checked out a lot of option and although expensive, this seemed to be the best. With CF cards dropping (1 gig for about $150 at New Egg) this seemed like a good capture option. I will be using this primarily for depositions, hearings, witness statements,etc etc. Until now I have been using an analog tape and then capturing to a hard drive with Adobe Audition. That's kind of a pain although it does work. There is a 30 day return period so if anyone has any comments on this device I am interested. It's a good choice for your applications. It won't do 24/96, is perhaps larger than it needs to be, has had some reports of battery problems but it's a good value at the price. -- Len Moskowitz PDAudio, Binaural Mics, Cables, DPA, M-Audio Core Sound http://www.stealthmicrophones.com Teaneck, New Jersey USA http://www.core-sound.com Tel: 201-801-0812, FAX: 201-801-0912 |
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John H. Power wrote: I checked out a lot of option and although expensive, this seemed to be the best. With CF cards dropping (1 gig for about $150 at New Egg) this seemed like a good capture option. I will be using this primarily for depositions, hearings, witness statements,etc etc. Until now I have been using an analog tape and then capturing to a hard drive with Adobe Audition. That's kind of a pain although it does work. There is a 30 day return period so if anyone has any comments on this device I am interested. If you are logging court procedings or other meetings and have been using cassette, you can probably use it as an MP3 recorder. You can get over 12 hours on 1 gig that way. It will break the recording up into seperate files if you hit the record button. This makes it easy to find sections when you lay it off to a CD |
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John H. Power wrote: I checked out a lot of option and although expensive, this seemed to be the best. With CF cards dropping (1 gig for about $150 at New Egg) this seemed like a good capture option. I will be using this primarily for depositions, hearings, witness statements,etc etc. Until now I have been using an analog tape and then capturing to a hard drive with Adobe Audition. That's kind of a pain although it does work. There is a 30 day return period so if anyone has any comments on this device I am interested. If you are logging court procedings or other meetings and have been using cassette, you can probably use it as an MP3 recorder. You can get over 12 hours on 1 gig that way. It will break the recording up into seperate files if you hit the record button. This makes it easy to find sections when you lay it off to a CD |
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MacKerr wrote:
John H. Power wrote: I checked out a lot of option and although expensive, this seemed to be the best. With CF cards dropping (1 gig for about $150 at New Egg) this seemed like a good capture option. I will be using this primarily for depositions, hearings, witness statements,etc etc. Until now I have been using an analog tape and then capturing to a hard drive with Adobe Audition. That's kind of a pain although it does work. There is a 30 day return period so if anyone has any comments on this device I am interested. If you are logging court procedings or other meetings and have been using cassette, you can probably use it as an MP3 recorder. You can get over 12 hours on 1 gig that way. It will break the recording up into seperate files if you hit the record button. This makes it easy to find sections when you lay it off to a CD The USB implementation on the 670 has been buggy for us. We bought an outboard CF card reader rather than plug the deck into a computer. Frequently the audio files would read as corrupt but would be fine with the reader. Marantz support wanted to blame it on the several different computers that all manifested this with the PMD670 and ended up dropping the issue. Chip Gallo |
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MacKerr wrote:
John H. Power wrote: I checked out a lot of option and although expensive, this seemed to be the best. With CF cards dropping (1 gig for about $150 at New Egg) this seemed like a good capture option. I will be using this primarily for depositions, hearings, witness statements,etc etc. Until now I have been using an analog tape and then capturing to a hard drive with Adobe Audition. That's kind of a pain although it does work. There is a 30 day return period so if anyone has any comments on this device I am interested. If you are logging court procedings or other meetings and have been using cassette, you can probably use it as an MP3 recorder. You can get over 12 hours on 1 gig that way. It will break the recording up into seperate files if you hit the record button. This makes it easy to find sections when you lay it off to a CD The USB implementation on the 670 has been buggy for us. We bought an outboard CF card reader rather than plug the deck into a computer. Frequently the audio files would read as corrupt but would be fine with the reader. Marantz support wanted to blame it on the several different computers that all manifested this with the PMD670 and ended up dropping the issue. Chip Gallo |
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Chip Gallo wrote
The USB implementation on the 670 has been buggy for us. We bought an outboard CF card reader rather than plug the deck into a computer. Frequently the audio files would read as corrupt but would be fine with the reader. Marantz support wanted to blame it on the several different computers that all manifested this with the PMD670 and ended up dropping the issue. BRBR I have not had that problem, with several laptops and one portable rack mounted desktop. Mac |
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Chip Gallo wrote
The USB implementation on the 670 has been buggy for us. We bought an outboard CF card reader rather than plug the deck into a computer. Frequently the audio files would read as corrupt but would be fine with the reader. Marantz support wanted to blame it on the several different computers that all manifested this with the PMD670 and ended up dropping the issue. BRBR I have not had that problem, with several laptops and one portable rack mounted desktop. Mac |
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John H. Power wrote:
On 04 Jun 2004 16:14:51 GMT, ost (MacKerr) wrote: Chip Gallo wrote The USB implementation on the 670 has been buggy for us. We bought an outboard CF card reader rather than plug the deck into a computer. Frequently the audio files would read as corrupt but would be fine with the reader. Marantz support wanted to blame it on the several different computers that all manifested this with the PMD670 and ended up dropping the issue. BRBR I have not had that problem, with several laptops and one portable rack mounted desktop. Mac Nor have I had a problem with mine. I love this thing. I did a Driver's License hearing and a jail interview this morning and by noon I had CD's in the mail going to the interested parties. However, the interior of the hard shell case could have been designed better. It is set up so that the recorder and the power adapter are on the one side rather than centered so the thing is off balance when you carry it. For all I know they fixed the USB in current production units. We bought ours late last year, around October. It was more the tech support part that annoyed me. Glad that your units are behaving ... Chip |
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This was never a problem in my experience.
Digital to digital transfers seemed to work fine. But go figure, some reporters insisted on patching the analog out jack (Line out) to analog in (Line in) on the computer or console to transfer files!!!! That also worked but DUH!! On Fri, 04 Jun 2004 20:52:43 GMT, "Chip Gallo" wrote: John H. Power wrote: On 04 Jun 2004 16:14:51 GMT, ost (MacKerr) wrote: Chip Gallo wrote The USB implementation on the 670 has been buggy for us. We bought an outboard CF card reader rather than plug the deck into a computer. Frequently the audio files would read as corrupt but would be fine with the reader. Marantz support wanted to blame it on the several different computers that all manifested this with the PMD670 and ended up dropping the issue. BRBR I have not had that problem, with several laptops and one portable rack mounted desktop. Mac Nor have I had a problem with mine. I love this thing. I did a Driver's License hearing and a jail interview this morning and by noon I had CD's in the mail going to the interested parties. However, the interior of the hard shell case could have been designed better. It is set up so that the recorder and the power adapter are on the one side rather than centered so the thing is off balance when you carry it. For all I know they fixed the USB in current production units. We bought ours late last year, around October. It was more the tech support part that annoyed me. Glad that your units are behaving ... Chip Mike Cleaver Broadcast Services Voice-overs, Newscaster, Engineering and Consulting Vancouver, BC, Canada |
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This was never a problem in my experience.
Digital to digital transfers seemed to work fine. But go figure, some reporters insisted on patching the analog out jack (Line out) to analog in (Line in) on the computer or console to transfer files!!!! That also worked but DUH!! On Fri, 04 Jun 2004 20:52:43 GMT, "Chip Gallo" wrote: John H. Power wrote: On 04 Jun 2004 16:14:51 GMT, ost (MacKerr) wrote: Chip Gallo wrote The USB implementation on the 670 has been buggy for us. We bought an outboard CF card reader rather than plug the deck into a computer. Frequently the audio files would read as corrupt but would be fine with the reader. Marantz support wanted to blame it on the several different computers that all manifested this with the PMD670 and ended up dropping the issue. BRBR I have not had that problem, with several laptops and one portable rack mounted desktop. Mac Nor have I had a problem with mine. I love this thing. I did a Driver's License hearing and a jail interview this morning and by noon I had CD's in the mail going to the interested parties. However, the interior of the hard shell case could have been designed better. It is set up so that the recorder and the power adapter are on the one side rather than centered so the thing is off balance when you carry it. For all I know they fixed the USB in current production units. We bought ours late last year, around October. It was more the tech support part that annoyed me. Glad that your units are behaving ... Chip Mike Cleaver Broadcast Services Voice-overs, Newscaster, Engineering and Consulting Vancouver, BC, Canada |
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In article ,
"Chip Gallo" wrote: The USB implementation on the 670 has been buggy for us. We bought an outboard CF card reader rather than plug the deck into a computer. Frequently the audio files would read as corrupt but would be fine with the reader. Marantz support wanted to blame it on the several different computers that all manifested this with the PMD670 and ended up dropping the issue. Never had a problem with this - and I transfer several hours of recordings every day. Marc -- Marc Heusser (remove the obvious: CHEERS and MERICAL...until end to reply via email) |
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In article ,
"Chip Gallo" wrote: The USB implementation on the 670 has been buggy for us. We bought an outboard CF card reader rather than plug the deck into a computer. Frequently the audio files would read as corrupt but would be fine with the reader. Marantz support wanted to blame it on the several different computers that all manifested this with the PMD670 and ended up dropping the issue. Never had a problem with this - and I transfer several hours of recordings every day. Marc -- Marc Heusser (remove the obvious: CHEERS and MERICAL...until end to reply via email) |
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