Sound Devices SCORPIO: Why do Pros Use Gear Like This?

In April 2019, Sound Devices announcement their new flagship audio mixer/recorder called Scorpio. Sound Devices caters to TV and film production sound mixers - the professionals working on large budget productions. The Scorpio has a lot of new features which are really exciting and help production sound mixers do things that they haven’t been able to do before or it simplifies things that were previously more complicated. But all this comes at what would seem like a hefty price from the perspective of a self-funded, passion project filmmaker: $8995 USD. In this episode, we run through the features of the Scorpio, and why for some pros working on the larger budget projects, the expense is easily justified.

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If you’d like to learn how to make great dialogue audio for your film and video projects, please have a look at my courses at https://school.learnlightandsound.com including processing dialogue audio in Adobe Audition and DaVinci Resolve/Fairlight, recording sound, how to use the Zoom F8 and F8n, and how to get the most from the Sound Devices MixPre series of recorders.

Gear used and mentioned in this episode:

Sound Devices Scorpio - B&H https://bhpho.to/2Uy4qDv
Sound Devices 688 - B&H: https://bhpho.to/2rABgTo
Sound Devices 633 - B&H: https://bhpho.to/2UCbZJ6
Sound Devices MixPre - the more affordable line of high quality recorders for indie filmmakers - B&H: https://bhpho.to/2FvugNY
Allen & Heath DT168 Dante Stage Box - One example of a Dante device with 16 inputs and 8 outputs, all controllable by Scorpio - B&H https://bhpho.to/2MAW2Ok
DPA 4017b Shotgun Microphone - B&H https://bhpho.to/2m0N3HA
Blackmagic Design Pocket Cinema Camera 4K - B&H https://bhpho.to/2JB7W5V
Panasonic 12-35mm f/2.8 OIS Lens - Amazon https://geni.us/uMsKam

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Copyright 2019 by Curtis Judd

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