Hello,
Is there anyway I could synchronize Tascam HS-P82 with Sound Devices Mixpre-6 during recording, so that the audio tracks would be in sync for mixing.
I have never worked with syncing, so my question may be naive, but maybe somebody has some actual experience and could share his/her knowledge.
Thanks anyway...
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rojarosguitar, post: 458097, member: 51093 wrote: I asked myself
rojarosguitar, post: 458097, member: 51093 wrote: I asked myself how much problems could come from two different clocks at work, if I tried to align manually.
without a doubt, more trouble than its worth. manually aligning this is always tedious. besides that, the mics are going to pick up the sound naturally at different times, if their different distances from the source. trying to account for millisecond differences of the mics pickup, and then adding potential jitter within the units internal clocks, is a nightmare of a proposition.
Your problem is that neither of the two devices appears to have
Your problem is that neither of the two devices appears to have any way of taking an external sampling clock or of controlling the internal clock. It doesn't matter what you record on the tracks by way of sync patterns, if you can't modify the samping rate of at least one of the devices, you will be unable to keep them in sync, whatever starting time alignment you make. Start time alignment is relatively easy to deal with in the DAW, as others have said. A recorded alignment pulse is really all that is necessary.
The difficulty is drift in the sampling clocks over the time period of the recording and replay. The absolute clock speed is immaterial. For example, one machine could be running at 44.1KHz and the other at 48KHz, and providing you re-sample the analogue outputs from at least one of your machines into your DAW, you will only have the problem of differential drift of the two clocks.
Yes, those latest SD models look interesting. I am familiar with
Yes, those latest SD models look interesting. I am familiar with the previous versions, but because these latest Mixpres were new to me, I spent a bit of time going into what the HDMI TC inputs would and would not do. In the advanced mode, it looks as though the Mixpre can generate audio sampling clock from an incoming camera HDMI signal, but only if that camera is on a certified list from Sound Devices. As far as I can tell, it won't take an audio standard word clock or other non-video external timing source for generating a sampling clock.
If you had a certified camera for TC generation, you could probably run this latest model of Mixpre using an external sampling clock. However, I don't see a way of syncing the other recorder to the camera or to the Mixpre.
After a first look, it doesn't seem that the mixpre-6 has any cl
After a first look, it doesn't seem that the mixpre-6 has any clock input or output.
So it seems it could only be done by hand (aligning the track manually in a DAW)
To do so, It would be easier to have the same signal (or very similar) be recorded on both units to..
In any case both units need to record at the same resolution.
A timecode track could be recorded on both unit as time reference but it isn't the easiest to work with (takes time to align and chase time...)