It's a lovely piece of kit, on brand,
but as an actual practicing field recordist who also does home recording, some critical information (or features?) are missing,
namely,
- the availability of plug-in power for electret microphones on any of the inputs;
- whether the analog inputs are line-level only (no mention is made of integrated preamps)
- whether the 3x analog inputs can be configured for 4-channel recording (e.g. A-format for Ambisonics)
If there were four high-quality preamps providing plug-in power... you could use this for recording surround in the field, and transcode to B-format and then deliver via the Ambisonics ecosystems in AR/VR. E.g. record single-point surround video with a 360 camera, with surround audio—now you have a pocket kit that can give you surround video with audio that tracks etc.
But I don't think this does that. I think it's very pretty but would require external preamps (maybe this is provided on their companion mixer?) and mic power... :|
If anyone familiar with their line can comment I'm curious, I am in the rare subset of people interested enough in this specific area to drop coin on lovely gear...
...but I don't really want to carry two or more devices no matter how pretty when uglier single-device solutions exist already :/
but as an actual practicing field recordist who also does home recording, some critical information (or features?) are missing,
namely,
- the availability of plug-in power for electret microphones on any of the inputs;
- whether the analog inputs are line-level only (no mention is made of integrated preamps)
- whether the 3x analog inputs can be configured for 4-channel recording (e.g. A-format for Ambisonics)
If there were four high-quality preamps providing plug-in power... you could use this for recording surround in the field, and transcode to B-format and then deliver via the Ambisonics ecosystems in AR/VR. E.g. record single-point surround video with a 360 camera, with surround audio—now you have a pocket kit that can give you surround video with audio that tracks etc.
But I don't think this does that. I think it's very pretty but would require external preamps (maybe this is provided on their companion mixer?) and mic power... :|
If anyone familiar with their line can comment I'm curious, I am in the rare subset of people interested enough in this specific area to drop coin on lovely gear...
...but I don't really want to carry two or more devices no matter how pretty when uglier single-device solutions exist already :/