Recommendations for a not-too-expensive two-channel audio recorder as backup program recorder for events. Doesn't have to be battery-powered, but kind of small, like a 19-inch device.

0:19Appreciate everyone coming in. Alexander, let's get into the first one. All right. First question this morning is coming in from Andre Doley in Berlin. Lynn, recommendations for a not-too-expensive two-channel audio recorder as backup program recorder for events. Doesn't have to be battery-powered, but kind of small, like a 19-inch device. All the way from Hollywood, California, Mr. Courtney Gooden, what do you think?

0:42Well, no 19-inch devices. You know, I'd say I'm kind of partial for a two, you know, the people that have done this right, compared to some of the others that are based in, designed in Germany, already built in China, is the Zoom. The Zoom F3. I think this is an F3. Yeah. It's a two-channel input. It's a good recorder. It has onboard batteries.

1:09It can be powered off of five volts external, so you can power it off one of those phone recharger banks for backup. And its internal batteries work as backup as well. They have good power handling. It's got decent preamps. The F-Series has decent preamps. And I'm not sure if this one supports, but it could support timecode too, if you're synchronizing to timecode synchronized cameras.

1:31You might be able to do that with this one. If not, the F6 does everything, including metadata storage in the broadcast WAV files. And this one will record up to 192 kilohertz sample rate in PCM. So it's good high quality. You see the waveforms there as you're recording. recording so uh it gives you a good indication of your signal levels and uh and the fact that

1:54you are actually capturing audio when you're recording so that's my suggestion for now samples since midnight broadcast wave for me since midnight we were having some fun talking time code in the pre-show so uh you can only get that live so you can get here a couple minutes it's early you can get all those good stories chris i would like to take this opportunity to

2:18say andre there's a jillion recorders i'm sure you'll find a good one but i would like to say my heartfelt apologies and thankful and thank you to all the back-end crew because when you get all these guys in this room together we can act like children and in the pre-show it was kind of crazy crazy. So I just want to say thank you so much for working so hard to make the rest of us look good.

2:46I'm done. Bill Davis. I'm going to double down on Courtney's Zoom handy quarter things. I think you could probably get away with the H2 even, and they're pretty inexpensive. The H2n is a simple little recorder. The only thing I would do, I can't remember whether that has XLRs, if that's important to you. If you're just doing a backup of something, thing, maybe you can get by with a little RCA to mini pin in adapter. I won't buy one of those

3:13machines unless they've got XLRs in them, but that's depending on what you need to do. But yeah, Zoom's little recorders work well. Then in the chat, Mickey suggests the MixPre 6. That might be a little outside of the, I don't know if that qualifies as inexpensive, but it is going to get It's inexpensive in Mickey land. It's inexpensive in Mickey land. That's right.

3:33And if you're wondering why we sound so good, that's Mickey land. So maybe we should listen to him on the audio stuff. Next question. Next up is coming in from Dan in Mountain View, California, submitted through the QR code. Are control rooms and equipment rooms use TV logic reference monitors? What do you recommend in studio for color-accurate monitoring of Sony DHC series cameras for a DLP, not individual monitoring, 1080p60 workflow?