#9 - Some impressions of a Production Sound Mixer!
In my career, I've worked a fair amount as a production sound mixer (PSM) on feature films. In the process, I have used quite a few portable audio recorders, like the Deva 5.8, sound devices 788, 664, MixPre 10T and recently, the Scorpio. Here are some thoughts that I have. I hardly did any location work on the Nagra. And very little work on DAT recorders when they started replacing the Nagra. The earliest DAT recorder that I worked on was the Fostex PD4. It was a professional, 3 channel, timecode capable DAT recorder. Fostex PD4 It was soon superseded by the DVD-RAM based machine, the Fostex PD6 shown below. The Fostex PD6 All these Fostex machines were very rugged, built for professional work and had many features, hence they were full of knobs and buttons. Each knob or button generally controlled one function. I then moved on to the Deva 4, and the Deva 5.8 and did quite a few projects on them. Then came along the Sound Devices recorders. The DVD-R...