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Sound Devices wins CAS Technical Achievement Award --
Fri, 20 Feb 2015 10:32
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Sound Devices, specialists in audio and video products for broadcast and film production, has won the Cinema Audio Society (CAS) Technical Achievement Award in the Production category for its 970 rack-mount, multi-track audio recorder. The Cinema Audio Society was formed in 1964 to recognise innovations in recording technologies, including hardware and software products which are used by sound mixing professionals.
Sound Devices has now been a recipient of the prestigious CAS Technical Achievement Award five times. The 744T and 788T Production Recorders, and the 664 and 633 Field Production Mixers are all past winners. To be consistently recognised year after year for our new products with CAS Technical Achievement Awards is a remarkable accomplishment, says Matt Anderson, president of Sound Devices.
Sound Devices 970 records 64 channels of monophonic or polyphonic 24-bit WAV files from any of its 144 available inputs, including 64 channels of Ethernet-based Dante, 64 channels of optical or coaxial MADI, eight channels of line-level analogue and eight channels of AES digital. The half-rack, 2-U device simplifies any application requiring high-quality high-track-count audio recording, such as drama and reality productions, and live concert recording.
The 970 records to any of four attached drives, two front-panel drive bays (behind the screen) and two rear-panel e-SATA-connected drives. Material can be recorded to multiple drives simultaneously or sequentially. With its built-in, rock-steady Ambient Recording Lockit time-code technology, the 970 is well-suited to operate as a master clock. The 970 also features an embedded web-based control panel for machine transport and setup control over ethernet-based networks as well as file transfer over the data network with SMB. Users can perform file metadata editing of scene name, take name, notes, track names and reel folders before, during and after recording across all drives. In addition to RS-422 and GPIO control, the unit also allows for format conversion between analogue, AES digital, MADI and Dante.
Sound Devices 970 is designed with a large five-inch screen for metering of up to 64 tracks and for fast and intuitive menu control. Additionally, Sound Devices 970 features the company s proprietary PowerSafe technology, which has a built-in 10- second power reserve. In the event of a power loss, the unit continues to operate for up to 10 seconds to safely stop any file operation and then shuts down. This ensures that a complete power loss has no effect on the recording.
The 970 also features FileSafe, which automatically detects and repairs corrupted file headers when drives are mounted. Should this occur when a drive is inadvertently removed during recording, the user can simply reinsert the drive and FileSafe will automatically repair the files.
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