DustinSchmidt
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I recently purchased the Zaxcom DCiRX. Ordered from Gotham Sound the day it finally arrived at their shop and currently en route. Hoping to take delivery sometime early next week.
They sold me on the following promise: "The Zaxcom DCiRX combines receiver, recorder, mixer, and USB interface in one compact unit."
I have a variety of units that do SOME of what the DCiRX promises. But I'm trying to downsize and consolidate in a lot of ways. Hoping the DCiRX can be the Swiss army knife for audio. Let me caveat, I'm not a sound mixer, so when I say "Swiss army knife" it really means covering the scenarios that I personally find myself in.
Primarily I'm looking to use it as an on-camera preamp for powering a shotgun mic. This could be either on-camera or when booming for interviews. Cameras I'd most likely be using it with are the Alexa Mini and RED Komodo. Of course I have other cameras that have this capability built in, but I'm not always shooting on those cameras, or may not want to take them along just to help with audio capture.
I'm also quite interested in the DCiRX's ability to interface with the iPhone and capture professional quality audio on that device. I don't do a ton of that type of work currently, but if things do continue to shift towards mobile capture in that way, it's nice to have a tool that can accommodate those workflows. More testing there to come.
I would also love to offload my 2 sets of Sennheiser G3's and move over to Zaxcom transmitters to use the wireless receiver capabilities of the DCiRX sometime in the future. Having an on-camera shotgun and 2 wireless is pretty much the maximum sound requirements I find myself in.
Let me know if anyone here has any specific questions and I'll see what I can find out once it's in hand.
They sold me on the following promise: "The Zaxcom DCiRX combines receiver, recorder, mixer, and USB interface in one compact unit."
I have a variety of units that do SOME of what the DCiRX promises. But I'm trying to downsize and consolidate in a lot of ways. Hoping the DCiRX can be the Swiss army knife for audio. Let me caveat, I'm not a sound mixer, so when I say "Swiss army knife" it really means covering the scenarios that I personally find myself in.
Primarily I'm looking to use it as an on-camera preamp for powering a shotgun mic. This could be either on-camera or when booming for interviews. Cameras I'd most likely be using it with are the Alexa Mini and RED Komodo. Of course I have other cameras that have this capability built in, but I'm not always shooting on those cameras, or may not want to take them along just to help with audio capture.
I'm also quite interested in the DCiRX's ability to interface with the iPhone and capture professional quality audio on that device. I don't do a ton of that type of work currently, but if things do continue to shift towards mobile capture in that way, it's nice to have a tool that can accommodate those workflows. More testing there to come.
I would also love to offload my 2 sets of Sennheiser G3's and move over to Zaxcom transmitters to use the wireless receiver capabilities of the DCiRX sometime in the future. Having an on-camera shotgun and 2 wireless is pretty much the maximum sound requirements I find myself in.
Let me know if anyone here has any specific questions and I'll see what I can find out once it's in hand.
