Saturday, March 30, 2013

Tascam unveil new DR-60d audio mixer/recorder aimed at DSLR users


This is a brief excerpt from DSLR News Shooter




By site editor Dan Chung:

The Tascam DR-60d


Chuck Fadely over on www.newspapervideo.com has just posted some info on an interesting new audio mixer/recorder aimed at DSLR users. He says “Tascam has a new DR-60d recorder and mixer that will do four channels of audio while attached to the bottom of your DSLR. This thing looks great. High quality recording and a mixer in a nice small $350 unit. Supposed to have high-quality preamps and it has a safety track feature to record a duplicate channel at -6 or -12db down. It will record four channels so you can have a small shotgun in the hot shoe and still have two lav mics for your subjects.”


The price tag on the DR-60d does seem very attractive although it looks quite large compared to the competing Juicedlink, Beachtek and Azden mixers. The added recorder function is a real bonus, as is the safety track feature. For me this mixer will stand or fall on the quality of the preamps used and the resulting signal to noise ratio – my preference to date for the Juicedlink range is because I feel they provide the cleanest camera mounted …



By: Dan Chung


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