Shoot Tools: Sound Devices

Also supports recording to CompactFlash cards as well as external FireWire-based storage. Price: $5,995

Having more tracks available to record audio can help, whether you're facing the contingencies of a location shoot or the need to regularly capture a corporate meeting with lots of speakers. For those needs, you might want to check out Sound Devices 788T 8-track recorder, which debuted at NAB Show 2008. Pop-out, front-panel gain controls are available for each of the eight mic/line inputs. Each input also has solo headphone monitoring, 48V phantom power, limiter, polarity reverse, high-pass filter, and selectable delay. The 160GB internal SATA disk drive records up to 30 hours of 8-track, uncompressed 24-bit audio as Broadcast Wave files.
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