Group: rec.arts.movies.production.sound
From: Philip Perkins
Date: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 6:44 PM
Subject: Re: 2 months in the tibetan rainforest-Help!

On Aug 28, 4:26 pm, "Soundhaspriority" wrote:
> Sound Devices uses Samsung drives. This is the upsized hard drive in the
> same line: /Product/ ?Item=N82E16822152051.
>
> Bob Morein
> (310) 237-6511
>
> wrote in message
>
> news: @ ...
>
> > On Aug 28, 2:33 pm, "oleg kaizerman" wrote:
> >> as one who was on the eargonizer developing team a i say - thats the one
> >> :-)
> >> the 2 or 3 will be good for your setup
> >> about 744 . you can swap the internal drive to something larger the 40 gb
> >> and you can run 8 gb or 16 gb cf cards
> >> check the newegg .com they have the cheapest ones
>
> >> wrote in message
>
> >>news: @ ...
>
> >> > Hello all,
>
> >> > So i will be recording sound on a documentary in the Tibetan
> >> > rainforest. Im using a 442 mixer and a 744t with 4 lectrosonics 411's
> >> > and a schoeps cmit in my zeppelin. What would be the best audio
> >> > organizer to use for this? Everyone is telling me to get a petrol
> >> > organizer wit the rain cover. Im sure a lot of you have similar
> >> > documentary setups. Is there a specific petrol model number you can
> >> > give me? also how should i hike with my Boom? anyone know of any nice
> >> > day packs with a spot to clip my pole onto? or has anyone come up with
> >> > some good ideas to do this? Also when i'm not recording sound i would
> >> > like to just throw the organizer with everything still connected into
> >> > my pack on my back. I got this job last minute and im leaving next
> >> > wednesday so i need to come up with some good ideas fast.
>
> >> > Also, we will be completely off the map for 4 weeks and wont be able t
> >> > take media off my 744 with a computer. I was thinking about getting a
> >> > few flash cards cards instead of travelling with the external dvd ram
> >> > drive. what do you think i should do?
>
> >> > Thanks in advance!
>
> >> > Mike
>
> > thanks olrg



I would leave the DVDRAM drive at home, and go with a brace of CF
cards to get a backup of your audio off the machine. Get a nice
watertight little box for the CFs with some silica gel and guard it
with your life.

Philip Perkins