
This will bring up the Home Screen on the front panel. Turn the MixPre on, using the power switch on the left panel.You must plug it into two USB ports to get enough power. In an emergency, you can power the MixPre from a laptop using the provided special USB cable.They can be useful for long interview or music sessions. AC power supplies can be checked out separately from The Cage.To remove a battery, slide the release level away from the battery you want to remove, and slide the battery toward the release lever and up out of the sled.You can use one or two batteries, and they can be hot-swapped. Make sure the batteries are installed on the rear mount.To save space, this guide uses graphics of the MixPre-6. The main difference is that the MixPre-6 has four mic inputs, and the MixPre-3 has three mic inputs. The MixPre-6 and MixPre-3 are almost identical in usage. This handout will detail the basics of getting started and recording, utilizing customized Film/Video Sound presets. The MixPre-6 and MixPre-3 are very versatile and potentially complex machines. The recorders are available for checkout with a 32 GB SD card already installed, giving you about 60 hours of track record time. They have become a new standard recorder for small-scale film productions. The MixPre series sound recorders/field mixers are made by Sound Devices, and are compact, lightweight, and without compromise in terms of sound quality.
