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In Reply to: RE: Lightweight two mic input mixer with headphone monitoring? posted by Chris Williams on November 12, 2011 at 23:03:02
I was going to suggest the Audio Developments AD071 but it costs about the same as the Sound Devices you mentioned. It weighs 400gr or just under a pound so you can wear it on a belt or mount on the camera though.
Pretty much anything intended for film recording is going to be way out of my budget. But I see all sorts of 2 mic in boxes for recording to laptops. Do any of them have decent headphone monitoring circuits? Do they have an analog line out?
Have a look at Echo Audio, they make cheap&cheerful (as opposed to cheap&nasty) interfaces.
Sound quality is about as good as Apogee, never heard a bad thing about or coming out of an Echo unit.
May be they have something you can make to work for you (GinaG3?), especially if you use a laptop on site anyway as the mixer part could prove a problem in hardware.
Looks cool, though I think their AudioFire 4 might be a better fit, with a separate power supply. I'd hate to be locked to the laptop, which is busy recording HD video from my big camera.
Is the M-Audio Fast Track Pro decent? It seems to have more physical switches, better in a situation where the laptop may be busy. For some reason, they don't have a weight on their web site or in their manual.
My FastTrack Pro weighs 583 grams (not counting cables or power supply).
Admittedly I am not fully au fait with the M-Audio Fast Track so I can't say much about its quality, be it sound or build.
You could join gearslutz.com and ask there, 'nuff members with experience of all sorts of recording equipment and techniques. Just don't ask in the High End section!
I'll check it out, thanks.
I found a piece by Rolls, the MX34C. Is it total crap, or passable?
At $100 I'd give it a go.
If its unusable for you you can always sell it and I'd be more inclined to try this than any possible Behringer jobs.
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