Not a bad day at all, although a film crew in the area meant that I was somewhat restricted as to where I could be, so only one close-up recording. However, I did get to try the ULN-8 with the Prestigio/Tekkeon battery pack and although it works perfectly well, the current demand of the ULN-8 with all channels providing phantom power proved to be pretty hefty and I was down to around 50% on the battery monitor after 45 minutes. I'll do a more complete test later.
I started the DR-680 with Duracell Ultras, with a Sennheiser 418 and a Schoeps M/S pair (CMC4/8) and watched the juice drain out like water down a plug-hole, then switched to the freshly charged Energizers, which lasted the rest of the day (not continuously) with no problems. I guess that the 2600 mA versions would be even better. Regards, John On 19 Apr 2011, at 23:27, John Leonard wrote: > Not as good as the Li-Ion pack, but not bad at 3 hours 15 minutes approx. I > missed the exact cut-off as I had to answer a phone call and when I came back > in to the room, the batteries had died. Maplin has packs of four of these > batteries with charger at a sale price of £14.95. > > Tomorrow I'm back at Bentwaters with my tame Spitfire, which has had an > engine change and so sounds rather different, for a set of recordings for a > future CD release. I'll have a whole bunch of stuff to record with - from a > ULN-8 down to a Zoom H1, although I suspect I won't use that much. _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
