It's a lovely piece of kit, on brand,<p>but as an actual practicing field recordist who also does home recording, some critical information (or features?) are missing,<p>namely,<p>- the availability of plug-in power for electret microphones on any of the inputs;<p>- whether the analog inputs are line-level only (no mention is made of integrated preamps)<p>- whether the 3x analog inputs can be configured for 4-channel recording (e.g. A-format for Ambisonics)<p>If there were four high-quality preamps providing plug-in power... you could use this for recording surround in the field, and transcode to B-format and then deliver via the Ambisonics ecosystems in AR/VR. E.g. record single-point surround video with a 360 camera, with surround audio—now you have a pocket kit that can give you surround video with audio that tracks etc.<p>But I don't think this does that. I think it's very pretty but would require external preamps (maybe this is provided on their companion mixer?) and mic power... :|<p>If anyone familiar with their line can comment I'm curious, I am in the rare subset of people interested enough in this specific area to drop coin on lovely gear...<p>...but I don't really want to carry two or more devices no matter how pretty when uglier single-device solutions exist already :/
As of late, their industrial design has been just beautiful. You want to have it, even if you have no use for it.<p>People will complain about the price, as per usual, but keep in mind that this is a small company making low volume products for professionals.<p>With that said, I certainly won't be buying one :)
$1500 USD. Good lord, no thank you. This is actually just too much for something that has its bases covered by phones and a laptop. You can get some serious portable and studio kit for that money.
These seems like a dumb question, but what's the ergonomics for left handers or people who don't have a right hand?<p>At $1500, I would like to see symmetry or ease of use for the opposite hand.