Second thoughts about the Sony D50.

[Allan Black]

My D50 is brand new...primary use is recording FX for video and movies and it works, small and unobtrusive in public.

Up to now I've been evaluating everything on 7506 cans and they sound great. The internal 120degree mic setting sounds good, I think that'll be the best setting for a surround submarine movie sequence I'm working on, control/engine room etc. All 48khz at 16bit.

But now, uploading USB to PC Soundforge 8 sounds awful, no level and all mids. The D50 metering is PPM and very sensitive. Without low cuts on the internal mics, it looks to read down around 10Hz.

To get any level in SF 8 I'd have to always drive the D50 mics up to *zero* with its limiter always on. The sharp waveform spikes in SF look major, much bigger than I'd expect.

Anyone using a MAC or the D50 optical output or even the headphone output?

Any thoughts?

Cheers.

 

[headroom]

Hi I use it on the Mac OS X and its a problem with the invisible files from the Mac file system with playback always an "file damaged" error. Have to delete each file manually! Optical Output is always on. But the Opt Input does not change + read the correct Freq. with sertain AD/s. Its a missing flag i think.