New Field Recording Freedom!
The PMD660 represents the next generation of field recording. Professional field recording means more than just "battery-operated." It takes ruggedness, flexibility, specialized features, and the highest audio quality. It also takes experience to really understand what happens in the field, and to design the right tools for the job. Marantz Professional has that experience. For more than 20 years, Marantz Professional has designed and built field recorders that are up to the challenge, and the PMD660 is no exception. Critical field applications like electronic journalism, technical investigation, and documenting legal proceedings have been waiting for a high-powered, high-quality, high-reliability solid-state recorder in a compact package. Now Marantz Professional has answered-with the PMD660.
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Marantz PMD660 at a Glance:- Pro recorder small enough to fit in your hand!
- Solid-state design with no moving parts
- Long record times on single CompactFlash card
- Professional XLR mic inputs
- Edit in the box!
- 99 virtual tracks
- Long battery life for reliable field performance
Pro recorder small enough to fit in your hand!
The new PMD660 recorder is small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, but it has features that make more expensive, full-sized field recorders green with envy. It can run for hours on just four AA batteries. It records on CompactFlash media cards which you can find in any discount store, and will store more than 36 hours of mono .mp3 files on a single card. If audio quality is your key requirement, you get over an hour of pristine, uncompressed, 16-bit WAV files on one card. Editing on the PMD660 can be achieved right in the field using either of two editing modes, or you can use your favorite audio editing application by transferring files to your PC - the PMD660 even has its own USB port. XLR inputs, phantom power, built-in mics and more-it's all there in the PMD660. One last thing. Because the PMD660 is a solid-state recorder, it has no moving parts to break or service. There - it just paid for itself.
Solid-state design with no moving parts
The PMD660 is the newest generation of "Flash Recorders." By storing audio data on Compact Flash (CF) media cards, all of the mechanical hassles of tape recorders are gone forever-as are the costs of servicing and maintaining them. Solid State Technology makes the PMD660 less vulnerable to bumps, vibrations, and sonic deterioration over the long haul. Not only that, but CF storage allows you to choose from several recording formats, and makes transfer to computers a snap.
Long record times on single CompactFlash card
No more flipping tapes! With the PMD660 a single 1GB flash card can hold up to 36 hours of uninterrupted audio (monaural .mp3 at 64 kbps). For music recording, the same size card can hold more than 17 hours high-quality compressed stereo (.mp3 at 128 kbps). If you need the unmatched quality of uncompressed audio, you can get about one-and-a-half CDs worth of 16-bit linear PCM audio at 44.1kHz or 48kHz on the same 1GB card.
Professional XLR mic inputs
Let's face it. Plugging professional-grade microphones into an 1/8" jack is asking for trouble. The PMD660 offers two balanced XLR mic inputs with 48-volt phantom power. And just in case you don't have the time, space or budget to use external microphones, the PMD660 includes a stereo pair of condenser mics built right in.
Edit in the box!
In the end, you'll probably want your audio from the PMD660 to be used for broadcast, or burned to a CD for evidence, documentation, or just for convenient playback. You'll want to edit out dead air and irrelevant information. You can do this right on the PMD660 with cut-and-paste simplicity using the "Copy Segment" mode. You don't need to worry about mistakes, because the PMD never erases your original recording. Once you have it the way you like it (or if you prefer to edit on your computer or DAW), you can transfer your audio files to a PC for broadcast or CD burning through the PMD660's built-in USB Port.
99 virtual tracks
For more sophisticated editing jobs, the PMD660 features Marantz Professional's exclusive "Virtual Track" mode. In this mode, you can create up to 99 virtual tracks-internal playlists of audio segments. You simply tell the PMD660 what segments of a file to play, and in what order, and it does it-without altering the original file in any way, and without using up more card memory. Need 5 and 10-second sound bites and a two-minute interview segment, all from the same file? It's easy with virtual tracks.
Long battery life for reliable field performance
Tired of lugging around six extra D-Cells just so you can interrupt your recording to change batteries half-way through an event? The PMD660 will run for four hours on four AA cells. You can carry an extra set around and not even notice they're there-not that you'll need them.
- Smallest PMD yet -it fits in your hand!
- Records uncompressed 16-bit PCM WAV files at 44.1kHz or 48kHz.
- Records mono .mp3 files at 64 kbps
- Records stereo .mp3 files at 128 kbps
- Uses inexpensive, widely available CompactFlash media
- 1GB CF card can hold over 1 hour of uncompressed stereo
- 1GB CF card can hold over 17 hours (stereo) or 36 hours (mono) .mp3
- Operates for four hours on four AA batteries
- Two XLR mic connections with 48-volt phantom power
- Two built-in condenser mics for easy, true stereo recordings
- Stereo line I/O
- Solid-state design
- No moving parts - no maintenance!
- "Copy Segment" cut-and-paste editing to a new sound file
- 99 "Virtual tracks" for EDL-style editing
- Built-in USB port for easy file transfer
- Optional wired remote control with peak indicator
