Deva Mic Preamps

I must beg to slightly differ. Why has it taken 5 years for this
revelation to become suddenly significant? Many of us Deva owners
quickly recognized that Deva did not provide enough phantom supply but
the problems did not end there.
In my qualitative opinion Deva mic pre-amps demonstrated significant
audio incoherence with both phantom powered mics and also with
Lectrosonics radio mics where there would be no phantom power.
Consider the track record of Zaxcom who defended audio distortion in
Deva above 11KHZ as insignificant, their low input impedance fiasco
which I seem to recall they patched with some add-on resistors, non-
standard timecode counting practices which appears to have prevented
proper external timecode recognition and introduced significant
ongoing errors (thank you Deneke for taking the time to test and
explain this to me, it took me 6 months to get Zaxcom to even
acknowledge that there might be problems), NP1 battery compartments
that could not release internal batteries, non-standard multi-pin
assignments and then the list of significant missing features promised
for Deva which are never to be spoken of in the halls of Zaxcom
because Deva will probably never have those features.
Well I'm glad the hear there are only 2 or 3 of us with this simple
problem!

Mark Weber C.A.S.
Sound Specialist Inc.
Miami, Florida
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Somehow I haven't experienced any of those problems with any of my 3
Deva recorders. Me and all the other Deva owners I know must be
extremely lucky (well... except the battery case on the Deva 2 wasn't
the best... but then again it's not like there were a hundred other
machines to choose from back then). I'm not sure what you mean when
you say 'Deva did not provide enough Phantom supply'. Except for the
faulty boards mentioned in my original post the Deva supplies 48v with
enough current to power every mic I can find to plug into it. It's
funny, you didn't mention any of these problems when you posted your
Deva for sale. Selling a machine with 'audio incoherence'... you
should be ashamed.

Billy


On Oct 3, 11:22 am, MWeber <weberso... DeleteThis @yahoo.com> wrote:
> I must beg to slightly differ. Why has it taken 5 years for this
> revelation to become suddenly significant? Many of us Deva owners
> quickly recognized that Deva did not provide enough phantom supply but
> the problems did not end there.
> In my qualitative opinion Deva mic pre-amps demonstrated significant
> audio incoherence with both phantom powered mics and also with
> Lectrosonics radio mics where there would be no phantom power.
> Consider the track record of Zaxcom who defended audio distortion in
> Deva above 11KHZ as insignificant, their low input impedance fiasco
> which I seem to recall they patched with some add-on resistors, non-
> standard timecode counting practices which appears to have prevented
> proper external timecode recognition and introduced significant
> ongoing errors (thank you Deneke for taking the time to test and
> explain this to me, it took me 6 months to get Zaxcom to even
> acknowledge that there might be problems), NP1 battery compartments
> that could not release internal batteries, non-standard multi-pin
> assignments and then the list of significant missing features promised
> for Deva which are never to be spoken of in the halls of Zaxcom
> because Deva will probably never have those features.
> Well I'm glad the hear there are only 2 or 3 of us with this simple
> problem!
>
> Mark Weber C.A.S.
> Sound Specialist Inc.
> Miami, Florida
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In article <1191482239.429596.164600 DeleteThis @50g2000hsm.googlegroups.com>,
Billy Sarokin <bigmaho DeleteThis @verizon.net> wrote:

>Selling a machine with 'audio incoherence'... you
> should be ashamed.
>
> Billy

Billy you are so right about how lucky we have been. My entire career I
have been plagued with this "audio incoherence" thing... I think my
Nagra III had it too. Thankfully I have not had the problem on any of
the 18 feature films I have done with the Deva.

Regards, Jeff Wexler
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