Sound Devices MixPre-3 II
Field recorder and USB interface that writes its own backup track to an SD card
Three XLR inputs, a headphone output and an SD card slot, in a metal box small enough to carry. It works as a USB audio interface for a computer. At the same time it writes an uncompressed track of its own to the card, which means a crash on the computer during a recording costs nothing. Podcasters buy it for that. They also record on it in rooms with no computer at all. Getting it to do both jobs at once means a trip through the menus.
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Does it: documented as part of their own routine. Recommends: explicitly advises other people to do it. Discusses: covered it substantively without clear personal adoption; this can include criticism or disagreement.
- Federico ViticciDoes it
Apple writer · founder of MacStories
Records his shows through a Sound Devices MixPre-3 II. It writes his microphone track to its own SD card while the iPad handles the Zoom call. He describes that as handing the recording to hardware, because iPadOS cannot capture two audio sources at once.
Source: MacStories: iPad Pro for Everything“rather than trying to make iPadOS hold a Zoom call and record my audio at the same time, what if I just used iPadOS for the call and delegated recording to a dedicated accessory?”
MacStories: iPad Pro for Everything (opens in a new tab) · 18 Dec 2024
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