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Sound Devices | 788T > in tenth of a millisecond increments up to milliseconds. The rotary control on the right side of the chassis spins you through the selectable knee positions of the high-pass filter and through the main menus. At the bottom of the input window a block of letters, LRABCDEF, is used to show to which of the eight tracks that particular input is assigned. Very easy to read. Very cool. Any input can be routed to any track. Multiple inputs can be routed to a single track, or any combination of tracks via four female XLR inputs and four TA inputs for balanced or unbalanced mic or line level analogue audio. The eight digital inputs enter through a single DE- (D-Sub) connector. Each input gain pot is surrounded by an exceptionally cool and innovative LED light ring that glows green to indicate signal activity, red for the approach of clipping, yellow to indicate input limiter activity and flashing yellow to indicate an unlocked digital input. The green and yellow LEDs increase in intensity as the level increases. The six analogue and digital outputs are parallel, so whatever goes to analogue output also goes to digital output . On the right Track R outing And I/Os TELEFUNKEN AUDIO MEDIA AD 27/9/08 panel, there are four male TA active, balanced analogue outputs, and a . mm unbalanced stereo analogue output for outputs five and six. In addition, there are two male TA connectors for digital outputs - . Digital outputs five and six exit through the DE- connector on the back panel. No D-Sub cable was supplied by Sound Devices, so I couldn’t evaluate the digital inputs. I was able to output digitally from one of the TA digital outs the AES/EBU input of a Panasonic SVDAT machine with no problem. The -segment green, orange, and red output meters, which also operate when recording, have non-linear resolution and are small. It took an ‘adjustment’ for me to stop looking at them so much and pay more attention to the input lights. The three red output LEDs fire between - . dBFS to dBFS. I, myself, would like that to be changed to ‘red means over’. The brightness of the LEDs are continuously adjustable for operation for full sun to total darkness. Headphone amp gain is more than sufficient and also has a peak light of its own. Monitoring multiple inputs and outputs with one set of stereo headphones can be challenging. 17:29 Page 1 The T headphone output control supports the monitoring of each input and output, various selections or all, regardless of input and output routing assignments. In addition, the headphone circuit can also decode Mid-Side inputs to LR, and derives a stereo signal from the W, X, and Y channels, when working with the four-channel Soundfield B-Format. Recording starts manually by pressing the REC button, or from External TC-Auto Record or External TC/cont-Auto Record. The REC button stays red so you can quickly see that you’re still rolling. If you’re wandering around the menus when the director calls ‘action’, just hit the Rec button and you’re recording. The T Pre-Record Buffer can be set to record a full ten seconds before the Record button is pushed, except when in Record Run mode or in any of the four external time code operation modes. During recording, I found the additional presses of the Record button can be programmed to do nothing, add a cue marker to the file being recorded, or start a new file. The T records both broadcast wave and poly wave files with I n Use > 42 AUDIO MEDIA OCTOBER 2008 http://www.unityaudio.co.uk http://www.unityaudio.co.uk

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