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  1. Borjam

    Best bird recorders for field recording

    The Tentaclesync Track E is a somewhat special kind of mono recorder. Its mobile phone sync is used for time code. The idea is, instead of transmitting the audio as you would do with a wireless transmitter, you record to a microSD card but the time code has been set up wirelessly from a phone...
  2. Borjam

    Best bird recorders for field recording

    The MixPre II has a different SoC, certainly. It is much more powerful than the one in the first series. But being several years more recent I wouldn´t be surprised if the power consumption was comparable. Also, the first series MixPre uses two converters in parallel for each input in order to...
  3. Borjam

    Best bird recorders for field recording

    I saw it here, albeit in a somewhat oblique way. https://www.sounddevices.com/mixpre-3-mixpre-6-powering-options/ They mention the USB-C power requirements and they give a figure of 7.5 W. Also cell characteristics are very important. In particular, how voltage drops depending on current...
  4. Borjam

    Best bird recorders for field recording

    They say it needs 7.5 W. It’s pretty clear. What do you mean with “standard for USB”? The old standard was limited to 500 mA at 5 V. But the more recent USB-C offers more options. Of course it doesn’t help that there are a lot of non compliant implementations all over the place. That’s why they...
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