rick.lang wrote:I wasn’t aware of that so perhaps it was a blessing in disguise that the Zoom F6 was delayed? The 833 looks great, but way out of my budget. I see the preamps have been improved with even lower noise floor, but I don’t know if anyone has done a blind side-by-side with the MixPre II Kashmir versus 833 to if mere mortals can tell the difference and if so in what shooting conditions. I’m not recording the world’s top orchestras and operas.
I think the 833 is basically a MixPre-II for sound recordists. Quality wise there is unlikely to be much if any difference.
The thing is that you and I could, with the right set of mics, set up a deccatree (is that the term?) recording of a top orchestra or opera and get results that would be, assuming that we did everything right, indistinguishable from the same recording done with a Scorpio or 833.
But if we had a need for more mics, like needing eight wireless lav feeds + hidden mics + boom mic, we'd be hosed.
Personally, I don't care -- I'm not a sound recordist, so most of the extras (more inputs, XLR out, dual recordings, etc) are overkill for my needs. I care about the quality of the recordings, but at this point it's like a digipotato (aka 'youtuber') debating between a Pocket 6K and an Millenium DXL2 for vlogging.
I'm happy with the MixPre-6 II, planning to sell my v1, and recruit sound folks with more hardware for bigger projects. Everybody wins