Sound Devices 888, Manual

Page 1: ...8 8 8 PORTABLE PRODUCTION MIXER RECORDER ...

Page 2: ...ct menu commands and sub options such as Main Menu Outputs indicates you press the Menu button for the Main Menu then scroll to and select Outputs by pushing the Knob This symbol is used to convey selectable menu items This symbol is used to convey factory default settings A plus sign is used to show button or keystroke combinations For instance Ctrl V means to hold the Control key down and press ...

Page 3: ...your 888 using a smart battery NP 1 battery or an in line power supply via its TA4 DC input The ultra accurate fully featured timecode generator contains its own battery to hold timecode for up to four hours after power off Dedicated coms and slate allows for professional bi directional communication with other crew members Send customized mixes to the camera or crew with multiple mix buses With t...

Page 4: ... MENUS 13 POWER MENU 14 CHANNEL SETUP 15 CHANNEL GROUPS 15 BUS MENU 16 OUTPUT MENU 17 HEADPHONE PRESETS 18 LIMITERS 18 AUTOMIXER 19 DUGAN AUTOMIX 19 MIXASSIST 20 METERS 21 TIMECODE 22 RECORD PLAY 23 FILES 24 SLATE COMS RETURNS 27 SYSTEM 28 CONTROLLERS 29 TOGGLE SWITCH MENU 32 FRONT PANEL SHORTCUTS 32 TOGGLE SWITCH SHORTCUTS 33 USB KEYBOARD 34 SD REMOTE 35 QUICK SETUP 37 DANTE 38 SPECIFICATIONS 39 ...

Page 5: ...e next take While in playback push and hold right to rewind When the 888 is playing back or paused moving the joystick to the right fast forwards at 2x speed then after holding for 5 seconds it increases to 16x speed Scrub While playing or paused press the headphone knob to enter Scrub mode Then rotate clockwise for fast forward or counter clockwise for rewind speeds of 0x 1 8x 1 4x 1 2x 1x 2x 4x ...

Page 6: ...be used for AES3 or AES42 inputs MIC LINE INPUTS 5 8 TA3 JACKS Active balanced analog microphone or line level inputs pin 1 ground pin 2 hot pin 3 cold COM RTN TA3 JACK Balanced connection for Com Return audio input pin 1 Ground pin 2 hot pin 3 cold HEADPHONE X7 X8 3 5 MM JACK Unbalanced output and TRS headphone output Warning This output can drive headphones to po tentially dangerous levels Routi...

Page 7: ...ontrollers 10 18V DC TA4 JACK Accepts DC voltages from 10 18 V for powering pin 1 GND pin 2 Smart Battery DATA pin 3 Smart Battery CLOCK pin 4 10 18 VDC LTC WORDCLOCK 5 PIN LEMO JACK Timecode I O Wordclock pin 1 GND pin 2 LTC or WORDCLOCK IN pin 5 LTC or WORDCLOCK OUT Pins 2 and 5 are software selectable X1 X4 TA3 JACKS Line 10 or Mic level selected in Main menu OUTPUTS section Routing determined ...

Page 8: ...abled in the Power menu DANTE RJ45 JACK 1 GbE port serving as a Dante audio network connection The Dante interface provides 16 inputs and 16 outputs simultaneously Routing is defined through the Channel Source and Output menus Dante Controller app on Mac PC from Audinate needed to route and use Dante TOP PANEL Connection for XL AES 8 Channel AES3 Input Expander AES CONNECTOR Used for connecting XL...

Page 9: ...NNEL METERS WITH ARM INDICATION Indi cates the peak and VU audio levels of the individual channel May be Pre or Post fade depending on Channel to ISO routing FILE ELAPSED REMAINING TIME Indicates in Hours Minutes Seconds 1 10ths the elapsed time of the current file During playback displays the elapsed and remaining time in hours minutes and seconds TIMECODE Indicates current SMPTE timecode value S...

Page 10: ... g 1 2MS Linked parameters are trims faders HPF delay limiter mute ISO Bus Send 1 and Bus Send 2 Stereo panning is 1 to L and 2 to R For MS linking the pan becomes a balance con trol between Mid and Side CHANNEL EQ Indicates the EQ position in the audio chain Pre fade or Post fade Select to enter Channel EQ screen HPF HIGH PASS FILTER Indicates on off status where green icon and white value On and...

Page 11: ...888 User Guide 9 CHANNEL INPUT SOURCE CHANNEL BUS SENDS ...

Page 12: ...edly deletes characters to the left of flashing cursor Space Inserts space at the flashing cursor position Hold Space Repeatedly inserts spaces Save switch Saves text and exits screen Rotate Select Moves the cursor to the left or right in the text field Quick Press Select Switches to the Shifted functions Clear End Home Exit When shifted functions are active their text changes to white and the non...

Page 13: ... 11 Phrase Manager CLEAR Clears all phrases DELETE Deletes selected phrases NEW Create new phrase EDIT Edit selected phrase INSERT Inserts selected phrase into text REPLACE Replaces text with current selected phrase ...

Page 14: ...tive Selects EQ band Use Select encoder to adjust frequency and HP encoder to adjust gain of the filter LF MF HF All filters are sweepable from 20 Hz to 20 kHz RTN Selects Q bandwidth of selected band 0 5 10 use Sel or HP encoder to adjust FAV Toggles filter type of LF and HF band Peak Shelf The Low Cut value is represented by the leftmost value on the graph and is adjustable in the channel screen...

Page 15: ...888 User Guide 13 Menus MAIN MENU ...

Page 16: ...18 V Smart Battery NP1 Data 2 DC LOSS Selects how the unit should operate when DC power is lost Switch to Next Supply Turn Off 3 SMART BATTERY DATA Displays Time Remaining Percent Re maining Cycle Count and Temperature of Smart Battery Note this menu is only displayed when a smart or data battery is connected 4 BATT CHARGING Selects battery charging mode when connected to an external DC source Dis...

Page 17: ...source of the PFL feed Auto Pre fade Post fade Auto pre fade if channel is routed to ISO track pre fade post fade if channel is routed to the ISO track post fade 3 CHANNEL GROUPING Selects grouping of faders record arming and mutes across channels The lowest channel number in the group controls the other channels grouped Four channel groups are possi ble channels grouped can only be assigned to on...

Page 18: ...Screens Bus 1 and 2 allow rout ing of Bus L or R Bus 3 8 allow routing of Bus L R 1 or 2 5 COM Rtn is not available on L R buses Bus 1 8 allow Com Rtn to be routed 6 RETURN Not available on L R buses Buses 1 8 allow routing of Return 1 or 2 7 GAIN Use toggle to select and adjust selected bus gain in 1 dB increments Off 16 dB 8 MUTE COMS Selects muting of Com sends and returns 9 MUTE ALL Indicates ...

Page 19: ...ay mode Off On H DELAY The output delay is continuously variable in milliseconds from 0 500 ms I GAIN Selects amount of attenuation applied to the output Toggle the to select 0 dB to 50 dB and inf J LEVEL Selects output level type Line 10 Mic K MUTE Indicates mute status of output Orange muted Toggle Mute On Off with the Fav toggle 2 Dante Selects routing for Dante output A ISO Any source selected...

Page 20: ...s HP knob on Home Screen Fav Selects a favorite preset The name turns green when selected The Fav switch recalls this HP preset when in the Home Screen Limiters CHANNEL LIMITERS QUICK SETUP Selects the channel limiters on off status globally All On All Off BUS LIMITERS Selects the bus limiters on off status globally All On All Off CHANNEL RATIO Selects the ratio of the limiter Inf 1 10 1 12 1 14 1...

Page 21: ...gan gain display bars range from 0 dB at the top aligned with 0 dBFS no attenuation to 15 dB max attenuation The 15 dB value is indicated by a purple horizontal graticule mark to the left of a channel s signal meter when that channel is enabled for Dugan in Menu Automixer There are two independent Dugan processing groups Bus L and Bus R Channels 1 16 can be routed to Bus L Bus R both equally Cente...

Page 22: ...efault 15dB When a channel is active not attenuated it s ring LED channels 1 8 only and LCD meter view channel indication illuminate green There are two independent MixAssist processing groups Bus L and Bus R Channels 1 16 can be routed to Bus L Bus R both equally Center or both unequally L or R pan increments by using a chan nel s pan control ...

Page 23: ...rrent preset LR 1 8 LR 9 16 LR 1 16 LR 1 12 1 8 Horizontal 9 16 Horizontal LR 1 8 Horizontal LR 9 16 Horizontal LR Outputs LR Buses LR Returns LR Outputs Horizontal LR Buses Horizontal D TRACK NAMES Selects display of track name in meters Enabled Disabled E GRAY METERS Selects gray meter when record disarmed When disarmed Off Meter View Menu Shortcuts WHEN IN LR OUTPUTS AND LR BUSES METER VIEWS Tu...

Page 24: ...ed Jam TC Toggle Rtn Fav switch to jam to external TC SET GENERATOR TC Provides the ability to start rolling internal TC from a manually entered value in the format of HH MM SS ff SET GENERATOR UBITS Provides UBits manual and automatic entry U User entered UU UU UU UU mm dd yy UU dd mm yy UU Use External Use Rtn Fav toggle to exit LEMO OPTIONS Selects pin 2 and pin 5 options for TC Lemo connector ...

Page 25: ... box Poly file Tracks L R and Bus1 2 can also be recorded as AAC audio files Orange fill in text box AAC files are ideal for transcription Select the AAC Bit Rate using the toggle switches 32 64 128 192 256 kbps A SSD ISO L R Bus1 2 ALL B SD1 ISO L R Bus1 2 ALL C SD2 ISO L R Bus1 2 ALL Up to 20 track recording supported with sampling rates 44 1 96 kHz Up to 18 track recording at 192 kHz Monophonic...

Page 26: ...ed takes audio files and sound reports Record Folders can be created and nested up to three levels deep A new or existing Record Folder can be selected for recording into There are 4 types of Record Folder 1 None Files are stored at drive root When None is selected the Date is embedded as Tape metadata 2 Custom Files are stored in a custom named folder the Custom folder name is embedded as Tape me...

Page 27: ... format tracks date time size FILENAME FORMAT Selectable naming conventions for recorded files Selectable between Scene Slate T Take or Project Scene Slate T Take SOUND REPORT INFO Selects the various content for each field of a sound report SCENE INCREMENT MODE Defines whether a scene name shall be incremented numerically or alphabetically when the scene increment shortcut is used TAKE RESET MODE...

Page 28: ...t for copying Folders and Files between drives from the File List s Options Menu DELETE FOLDER FILE Delete Folders and Files from the File List s Options Menu CREATE SOUND REPORT Creates a CSV sound report for the selected folder s takes EMPTY TRASH Empties the trash folder EMPTY FALSE TAKES Empties the false takes folder ERASE FORMAT Formats the selected drive ...

Page 29: ...By 0 40 dB inf COM SEND ROUTING Selects the destination s for Com Send a Output L R X1 X6 b Bus L R 1 8 c HP HP L HP R d Duck Bus Prgrm By 0 40 dB inf e Duck HP Prgrm By 0 40 dB inf COM RTN GAIN Selects the gain for Com Rtn in 1 dB increments 0 30 dB RTN A GAIN Selects the gain for Rtn A in 1 dB increments 0 30 dB RTN B GAIN Selects the gain for Rtn B in 1 dB increments 0 30 dB DUCK BUS PROGRAM BY...

Page 30: ...RATION Selects the option to manually calibrate all faders TIMECODE CALIBRATION Tunes the 888 system clock to an external LTC signal BRIGHTNESS Selects the brightness of the LED display and front panel LEDs a LED Brightness Selects the front panel LED brightness in 10 steps 1 100 b Selects the front panel LCD display brightness in 10 steps 10 100 TIME DATE Selects the current date and time a Time ...

Page 31: ...der gains are displayed in the controller s display Off On Solo Follows Select Selects whether solo PFL mode is engaged on a channel when pressing Select from the controller Off On Applies to supported 3rd party controllers only SOLO FOLLOWS SELECT Selects whether solo PFL mode is engaged on a channel when pressing Select from the controller Off On Applies to supported 3rd party controllers only C...

Page 32: ...n on the 888 Mic Toggle Emulates the Mic toggle on the 888 Mix Pan Mode Activates all V Pots to Pan mode on every channel Push to center pan Mix Trim Mode Activates all V Pots to Trim mode on every channel Push to enter pan mode Nav Down Moves the highlighted selection up one in matrix screens emulates HP knob down in Home screen Nav Left Navigates back to previous screen Nav Right Selects the cur...

Page 33: ... s notes during record and the next take s notes during stop Take Number Edit Brings up the Take number edit screen for editing the current take number during record and the next take number during stop Timecode Jam Brings up the Timecode Jam screen Toggle Jog is Select Toggles between Select and HP knob press on the 888 Tone Toggles tone on off Tone Toggle Emulates Tone toggle on the 888 Toggle E...

Page 34: ...Action MENU PFL SWITCH 1 8 Power Menu Channel Setup Menu Channel Groupings Channels 9 16 Menu Buses Menu Outputs Menu LR X1 X8 Output Routing L Out R Out X1 Out X2 Out X3 Out X4 Out X5 Out X6 Out X7 Out X8 Out Dante Output Routing Dante Out 1 16 HP Presets Limiters Menu Meter Presets Menu Meter Preset 1 8 Timecode Sync Menu Jam Timecode Set Genera tor TC Set Generator Ubits Lemo Options Record Pla...

Page 35: ...Toggle Switch Shortcuts Action Mic Toggle As defined in the System Toggle Switch Action menu Slate Sel Mic Toggle As defined in the System Toggle Switch Action menu Com Send Meter Select or Select Meter Arm or disarm Selected track Toggle As defined in the System Toggle Switch Action menu No Action Rtn Toggle As defined in the System Toggle Switch Action menu Rtn A Sel Rtn Toggle As defined in the...

Page 36: ...screens where it emulates the Select knob rotating counterclockwise Channel screen and matrix screens navigates down HP vol in home screen row selection in menus parameter adjust Enter Home Screen Emulates HP knob press i e HP Monitor Source Select List Menu screens Emulates HP knob press i e Activates selection Channel screens Emulates HP knob press Virtual Keyboard OK Ctrl Up arrow Emulates Sele...

Page 37: ...isarm 6 Transport Controls 7 Metadata Editing 8 Info 9 Timecode 10 Take List 11 Reports SETUP PROCEDURE 1 Download and install SD Remote from the Google Play Store 2 Connect Android tablet to the 888 via USB A port 3 On the Android tablet open the quick settings drop down menu 4 Touch USB Android System twice to open Use USB to dialog box 5 Touch Connect a MIDI device 6 Open SD Remote app No USB C...

Page 38: ...ders at the same directory level may be included in the same report by selecting Sibling Folders 3 Select which Sound Report format to send Select Email CSV and or Email PDF 4 Select whether to send the CSV and PDF files individually or all as a single compressed zip file 5 Touch the Create Report button Sound Reports will be shared via email while simultaneously being created on the selected sour...

Page 39: ...ects a saved settings file for loading User saved Global Settings SAVE GLOBAL SETTINGS Saves Global Settings to various destinations SSD Drive internal INT1 4 internal SD1 and SD2 LOAD FACTORY SETTINGS Selects Factory Settings to be loaded for entire unit ...

Page 40: ... cycles It is recommended that in most situations the 888 is selected as Preferred Master under the Clock Status tab of Dante Controller USB A USB A allows multiple devices to be used to control and monitor vari ous functions of the 888 Should multiple devices be used simultane ously the use of a USB A type hub is required USB C USB C allows for high speed file transfer between a computer and any ...

Page 41: ... Threshold adjustable 2 dBFS to 12 dBFS Selectable ratio inf 1 20 1 18 1 16 1 14 1 12 1 10 1 DELAY Channel Adjustable 0 50 ms Output Adjustable 0 500 ms MAXIMUM GAIN Trim stage mic input 76 dB Trim stage line input 50 dB Fader stage 16 dB Bus stage 16 dB Headphone stage 20 dB Mic to Line 108 dB Mic to Headphone 112 dB TA5 along with mic input pins for single connection to headset mic High output 4...

Page 42: ...igger LCD 320x240 transflective excellent sunlight visibility Larger touchscreen display available via USB connected SD Remote app POWER External 10 18 V input on locking TA4 connector pin 4 pin 1 Dual rear mount Sony style L mount batteries with chargers Current Draw at 12 V no battery charging All mic preamps off 900 mA All mic preamps on 990 mA All mic preamps on 192 kHz sample rate recording t...

Page 43: ...ality of the signal received at the camera On the 888 the camera returns can be used as a source for any channel Channel A slot of a mixer that is controllable and routable A given input feeds the channel and the channel s settings process and route the audio as required It can also be thought of as the path its selected input signal takes on its way to its record track a bus or an output Channel ...

Page 44: ...dio Also referred to as a low cut filter this circuit reduces the amount of low frequency content in an audio signal A HPF is particularly useful when recording speech since the human voice does not generate appreciable energy at low frequencies The HPF reduces non speech signals such as environmental noise wind noise and microphone handling noise improving the intelligibility of speech and reduci...

Page 45: ...ed at the output Signal delay is often set at an output to compensate for the delay introduced by digital imaging systems so that picture and sound remain in correct lip sync Output delay is set in either frames or milliseconds Pan When a channel is routed to a stereo linked bus the level it appears at each bus is adjusted by a pan control A channel with its pan control straight up the center or c...

Page 46: ...o the microphone Slate microphones are often routable to buses or tracks Smart Battery A lithium ion rechargeable battery with integrated telemetry indicating battery condition run time and other useful data Stereo linking inputs When active for stereo sources such as stereo microphones linked inputs are hard panned to the left and right bus Controls including gain trim fader high pass filter dela...

Page 47: ...cter name Trim Also defined in mixers as gain the trim adjustment is the first stage of gain of a microphone or line level input Typical microphone trim values range from 10 dB to 50 dB depending on microphone sensitivity and volume of the sound source User bits Static numeric data that is available as part of a timecode signal User bits are often used to indicate the date of a file User bits are ...

Page 48: ...connected Consult the dealer or an experienced radio TV technician for help FCC ISED User Statement This device complies with FCC and ISED RF exposure limits for general population uncontrolled environments Cet appareil est conforme à la norme FCC et ISED les limites d exposition pour la population générale l exposition incontrôlée A separation distance of at least 20cm must be maintained between ...

Page 49: ...eclaration covers all options of the above product Complies with the essential requirements of the following applicable European Directives and carries the CE marking accordingly Radio Equipment Directive 2014 53 EU Article 3 1b ETSI EN 301 489 17 v3 1 1 EN 55032 2012 EN 55032 2 AC 2013 CISPR 32 2012 EN 55103 2 2009 Article 3 2 ETSI EN 300 328 v2 1 1 This Declaration of Conformity applies to the a...

Page 50: ...UCH DAMAGE Two Level Segregated Fit memory allocator version 3 1 Written by Matthew Conte Http tlsf baisoku org Based on the original documentation by Miguel Masmano http www gii upv es tlsf main docs This implementation was written to the specification of the document therefore no GPL restrictions apply Copyright c 2006 2016 Matthew Conte All rights reserved Redistribution and use in source and b...

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