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Teenage Engineering TP–7 field recorder
- antomeie 3y agoAs of late, their industrial design has been just beautiful. You want to have it, even if you have no use for it. People will complain about the price, as per usual, but keep in mind that this is a small company making low volume products for professionals. With that said, I certainly won't be buying one :)
- hammyhavoc 3y agoMost professionals I know will stick to their Sound Devices, Zoom or Cantar.
- antomeie 3y agoYes, I don't doubt that there are more affordable products which offer the same, or (probably) better, quality, for a better price. Nevertheless, some people just prefer to use products that spark their creativity, however irrational it may be. This can easily turn into a never ending discussion :P
- ehutch79 3y agoIt doesn't matter how good it looks... Not at $1500. Even people with serious disposable cash had issues withe 'op1 field'. This is a far larger price differential with competing products in the same quality/feature bracket
- iancmceachern 3y agoThere are, read the comments
- throwaway290 3y agoIn similar price range Tascam trumps Zoom!
- gaudat 3y agoIt's like Apple but for musicians. If you need to care about the price you are likely not the target audience. Thanks but I will stick with my Zoom field recorder.
- spacechild1 3y ago> products for professionals Certainly not :)
- superchroma 3y ago$1500 USD. Good lord, no thank you. This is actually just too much for something that has its bases covered by phones and a laptop. You can get some serious portable and studio kit for that money.
- brudgers 3y agoIt's not for me either. I don't think that makes it bad. Just built to a price point that makes economic sense. And for market segments where $1500 is not a non-starter.
- pseudosaid 3y agoIts priced appropriate unfortunately. Where mixers run $10-40k, and 16 channels of preamps can run upwards of $5k. They are going after a niche pro audio market that has the rare ven diagram needs of form and function
- bfrog 3y agoMy old Mackie 1604vlz didn’t cost nearly that sort of coin. True it wasn’t neve or ua… but it had very quiet and clear pre amps and more than enough channels and routing. For $350 used in the early 2000s.
- brudgers 3y agoSorry for not being clear. I don’t think there is anything wrong with the price. It’s not a lifesaving drug or something like that.
- rwmj 3y agoYeah I have a Sony field recorder which is really nice, but was about a sixth of the price.
- aaroninsf 3y agoIt's a lovely piece of kit, on brand, but as an actual practicing field recordist who also does home recording, some critical information (or features?) are missing, namely, - the availability of plug-in power for electret microphones on any of the inputs; - whether the analog inputs are line-level only (no mention is made of integrated preamps) - whether the 3x analog inputs can be configured for 4-channel recording (e.g. A-format for Ambisonics) If there were four high-quality preamps providing plug-in power... you could use this for recording surround in the field, and transcode to B-format and then deliver via the Ambisonics ecosystems in AR/VR. E.g. record single-point surround video with a 360 camera, with surround audio—now you have a pocket kit that can give you surround video with audio that tracks etc. But I don't think this does that. I think it's very pretty but would require external preamps (maybe this is provided on their companion mixer?) and mic power... :| If anyone familiar with their line can comment I'm curious, I am in the rare subset of people interested enough in this specific area to drop coin on lovely gear... ...but I don't really want to carry two or more devices no matter how pretty when uglier single-device solutions exist already :/
- pseudosaid 3y agoits supposed to be used with their new microphone. any further mixing needs are supposed to be carried out via their field mixer. Are there better options for cheaper, yes. Does it look or feel as good? No. Does it still do the thing? Yes.
- aaroninsf 3y agoYeah. For their imagined target applications it's on brand for being delightful. I think my quibble is simply, "the thing" it does is not my thing :)
- the-printer 3y agoYou know I’ve come across your quiet american website exploring marginalia.nu in the past and never thought to actually see what the content was about, so now I don’t need to ask you to tell me more about what it’s like being a practicing field recordist, because it looks like you’ve done that already. Fancy seeing you here, thanks for stopping by.
- bb88 3y agoThese seems like a dumb question, but what's the ergonomics for left handers or people who don't have a right hand? At $1500, I would like to see symmetry or ease of use for the opposite hand.
- hammyhavoc 3y agoRemember the iPhone 4? "You're holding it wrong"
- Dylan16807 3y agoIt seems slightly more designed to be held in the right hand, but is there anything about the design that cares whether that hand is dominant or not?
- bb88 3y agoI think my issue is that the marketing reeks of this being an ergonomic triumph. But then they forget about people who are left handed... One use case might be holding the device in one hand and taking notes with the other... It's designed to be held in the right hand, but do you write with your right hand too?
- crtasm 3y agoearlier discussion today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35906292 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35906292