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Experience with new audio board?

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How is the audio quality with the new audio boards? Is phantom power working properly? If someone can post a sample I'd appreciate it.
 
Yes. It is great.
The Phantom and everything I have experienced as the RED "Test Unit" of the new audio board leads me to say that the board lets me leave excuses out of the audio discussion. It is everything you want.
What kind of sample would you like? I will do it.
 
Totally agree. We took delivery of our third camera with the new audio board in it.... and the results are spectacular! We recorded four channels using 48V phantom power mics, on battery, just to test the system under worst case conditions. It didn't drop a beat, with pristine audio and no noise or hiss to speak of.

Well done Red team, the audio is FIXED!! Looking forward to the upgrade program for our other two cameras now.....

:)

Paul
 
briferg said:
Yes. It is great.
The Phantom and everything I have experienced as the RED "Test Unit" of the new audio board leads me to say that the board lets me leave excuses out of the audio discussion. It is everything you want.
What kind of sample would you like? I will do it.
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I would love to hear Jannard announce with a clear, steady voice "The IMS no longer voids the warranty." ;)

No, seriously, any standard interview situation would do. And one studio recording, with a controlled environment, a voice-test or the likes.

Thanks a lot.

Exciting times, indeed. Powered by RED. (Hey, I like that tagline...)
 
briferg said:
What kind of sample would you like? I will do it.
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Thank you very much. Anything is helpful. I'd love to know what it sounds like to just throw any phantom powered mic on there and record someone talking from 5 feet away.
 
When is this happening? I thought it was late Sep. No word yet and I'm number 27.
 
Shawn Nelson said:
When is this happening? I thought it was late Sep. No word yet and I'm number 27.
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He's referring to cam owners who took recent delivery with the new audio boards, not to those of us who have them already. They haven't initiated the replacement program quite yet, I don't think. I think Jarred or Brent said it starts next week....
 
Great news from the redusers world... Congrats RED team!

EDIT -- Stick it!!
 
We're using phantom power (no batteries), 3 mics in each camera, and the sound is great.

But what's not great is having to reset the menus to power-on phantom power every time we reboot. Unfortunately that feature didn't make it in the latest firmware upgrade...hopefully next time.
 
Rather than having phantom power on all the time (not good for mics you plug in), what would be best is an assignable button on the evf say. That would be very useful.

Rob
 
48V Phantom Power

48V Phantom Power

One thing that you can do at this time is to assign the 48V Mic menu to one of the three User Menu keys A B C.

That will give you an equivalent short cut access to enable Phantom Power.
 
Audio cables etc

Audio cables etc

is there any change in the audio cables needed to work with line inputs now on the new audio board, or the same cables are fine?
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Yes you don't want to be using the RED full-size XLR to mini-XLR cables which include padding resistors inside anymore.

Those cables probably could be reworked in the field if necessary.

Camera shipments now use the "original" cable style - a full-size XLR to mini-XLR adaptor plus a mini-XLR to mini-XLR cable.
 
JimPress said:
We're using phantom power (no batteries), 3 mics in each camera, and the sound is great.

But what's not great is having to reset the menus to power-on phantom power every time we reboot. Unfortunately that feature didn't make it in the latest firmware upgrade...hopefully next time.
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Yep, having to enable the phantom power every time the camera starts is not good.
 
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