The Product
The 788T and the SSD-equipped 788T-SSD are powerful eight input, twelve-track digital audio recorders designed for production sound. Building on the success of the proven 7-Series architecture, the 788T offers greatly expanded input and output connectivity while continuing the 7-Series heritage of extensive control in a compact package.
It has eight fully-featured inputs ensuring superb audio quality. They accept either microphone or line-level signals, provide 48 V phantom power for condenser microphones, offer peak limiters for microphone inputs, and fully adjustable high-pass filters. Support for AES42 digital microphones is also available and extensive routing flexibility allows each input to be routed to left/right mixed tracks, isolated tracks, or aux tracks. By using the optional CL-8 Controller, the 788T is even easier to use, making the combination a flexible mixer/recorder, with lots of operational flexibility.
The 788T offers three options for recording media being the internal 160 GB SATA hard drive, CompactFlash media with UDMA support, or an external FireWire hard drive or DVD-RAM (with bus powering). The 788T-SSD version substitutes the hard drive with a 256 GB solid-state hard drive. Any or all of these can be used simultaneously. Additionally, when connected to Mac or Windows computers with high-speed USB or FireWire 400/800, the 788T functions as a high-speed mass storage device.
To simplify interconnection with mixers and cameras with AES3 connectivity, the 788T has eight channels of balanced AES3 digital input and six channels of balanced AES3 output. The 788T can be clocked from external word clock or from video sync. The 788T has a high-accuracy time code reader/generator on board. It includes auto-record features to chase external rec-run video sources. To simplify metadata entry the 788T directly accepts USB keyboards. Keyboard shortcuts can be programmed to control menu items and machine transport. The extensive power of the 788T simplifies any production sound setup.
Other features include solo headphone monitoring on each input, selectable sampling rate converters on each digital input, clear backlit LCD display, eight 13-segment Peak/VU meters and a time code generator which supports all data rates and holds time code for four hours with no power sources attached.
This recorder has to be the ultimate in location recorders and has been designed and built to withstand the most demanding of location recording requirements, with the aluminium and stainless-steel chassis delivering exceptional durability yet light weight.
The Manufacturer
Sound Devices was founded in 1998 and in a relatively short time has become the market leader within the ENG, film and television industry. Its growing family of audio mixers, digital recorders, preamplifiers and interfaces are trusted by professionals throughout the world. Sound Devices products deliver superb, consistent audio performance in extreme locations ranging from the high-altitude mountains of the Himalayas, the Costa Rican rainforests, and the soundstages of Hollywood. When portability, durability, unquestionable performance and no-compromise audio fidelity matter, Sound Devices is always the number one choice.
General
- frequency response 10Hz - 40kHz +0.1dB -0.5dB
- A/D dynamic range 123dB A-weighted
- D/A dynamic range 114dB A-weighted
- THD + noise mic 0.004% @ 1kHz
- CMRR 40dB @ 80Hz
- mic input connector XLR
- mic input level +8dBu
- mic input impedance 3.3kΩ
- line input connector TA3
- line input level +26dBu
- line input impedance 2.3kΩ
- output connector TA3
- output level +20dBu nominal
- output impedance 10kΩ
- digital output connector firewire, USB and XLR
- power requirements 10V - 18VDC
- battery requirements 7.2V Li-ion
- endurance 2 hours
- dimensions 257mm W x 163mm D x 45mm H
- weight 1.7g
Accessories Included
XLWPH3 AC Adaptor
XLB2 Li-ion Rechargeable Battery
XLRJ C.Link Cable
XLMAN Protective Case
User Guide
Availability
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Delivery cut off time
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Shipping Costs
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