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[Tuesday at NAB]
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Sound Devices Introduces 788T
Eight-Track Field Recorder Stores Up to 30 Hours, Uncompressed
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by Geoff Poister,
~ April 15, 2008
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NAB DAILY NEWS
Sound Devices LLC marked its 10th anniversary at the NAB Show with the launch of its most powerful digital audio field recorder, the 788T. The unit provides eight-track digital recording in a compact, lightweight design to meet the needs of feature film, episodic television, documentary and news gathering.
The eight-track capability makes it particularly useful for reality program production where multiple microphone capability is often a necessity.
“Our production sound customers are using more isolated tracks and have been asking for a machine with more than four tracks without a size, weight and cost penalty,” said Jon Tatooles, managing director of Sound Devices.
To handle the larger storage requirements of more isolated tracks, the 788T contains a 160 GB 2.5-inch SATA disk drive capable of storing 30 hours of eight-track, uncompressed 24-bit Broadcast WAV files.
One of the key features of the 788T is that it can simultaneously record audio to the internal disk drive, CompactFlash cards and an external FireWire drive.
Each track is independently metered with a tricolor LED display. The 788T also contains a limiter, a high-pass filter and phantom power for all microphone inputs.
Because the 788T is designed for work with video and motion picture, it is equipped with a full featured timecode generator and word clock. It supports all currently used time code frame rates. Time code can be slaved to a camera or generated internally.
Also new is Wave Agent utility software, which provides metadata editing tools and file playback for sound files recorded by 7-series digital recorders.
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