The recently announced second generation MixPre series II have me rethinking my decision to be an early adopter of the Zoom F6 due to its unexpected delay in production. Even though I thought the F6 was feature rich for the price, others hear reminded me how happy they were with the Kashmir preamps of the first generation MixPre. So a dilemma. Until this week when Sound Devices made significant enhancements to a second generation product with some impressive claims.
As a sole operator who wants to improve the quality of my audio, I needed a solution that can run largely unattended and yet is capable of very good results. 32bit floating point may make that possible. Although DaVinci Resolve is not listed by Sound Devices as an example of supporting third-party software that will work with 32bit audio, I’m sure the MIxPre-6 II L will be fine.
It also can function as an audio device to support ADR in Resolve and I need that capability now for film and a music video.
There are several options to support multi-camera Timecode and both mixing stereo and individual tracks and so on so I hope it will work well as my audio requirements grow.
I’d like to order this in September. Anyone have any further advice or comments. I know it only records up to 30p so I won’t be able to use it when I shoot 60p Project frame rates. That’s not a priority as I’m no longer shooting sports videos so light not be an issue. Would have been nice to have that option however. But I wonder if I’m overlooking anything that you feel the MixPre is lacking. I may add a couple of more XLR mics and the MixPre-6 will manage with those two added.
The manual is rather hit and miss in that it doesn’t explain how you do things. Given I have AVX mics with 19msec delay, MixPre does permit each channel to have a delay to adjust for wired and wireless mics. But looks like I’ll have to figure out what you actually do—I think I have to add a delay to the wired mics to slow them down to match the AVX slowpokes. That would be convenient. Or maybe that’s not the way it works, maybe it adjusts the Timecode on the AVX track to adjust for the 19msec delay. I’ll find out by testing.
What are your thoughts? Time to strike while the iron is hot? Or wait for the samples in detailed reviews based on real use?
As a sole operator who wants to improve the quality of my audio, I needed a solution that can run largely unattended and yet is capable of very good results. 32bit floating point may make that possible. Although DaVinci Resolve is not listed by Sound Devices as an example of supporting third-party software that will work with 32bit audio, I’m sure the MIxPre-6 II L will be fine.
It also can function as an audio device to support ADR in Resolve and I need that capability now for film and a music video.
There are several options to support multi-camera Timecode and both mixing stereo and individual tracks and so on so I hope it will work well as my audio requirements grow.
I’d like to order this in September. Anyone have any further advice or comments. I know it only records up to 30p so I won’t be able to use it when I shoot 60p Project frame rates. That’s not a priority as I’m no longer shooting sports videos so light not be an issue. Would have been nice to have that option however. But I wonder if I’m overlooking anything that you feel the MixPre is lacking. I may add a couple of more XLR mics and the MixPre-6 will manage with those two added.
The manual is rather hit and miss in that it doesn’t explain how you do things. Given I have AVX mics with 19msec delay, MixPre does permit each channel to have a delay to adjust for wired and wireless mics. But looks like I’ll have to figure out what you actually do—I think I have to add a delay to the wired mics to slow them down to match the AVX slowpokes. That would be convenient. Or maybe that’s not the way it works, maybe it adjusts the Timecode on the AVX track to adjust for the 19msec delay. I’ll find out by testing.
What are your thoughts? Time to strike while the iron is hot? Or wait for the samples in detailed reviews based on real use?
Rick Lang