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Portable Production Mixer and Recorder
User Guide and Technical Information
firmware rev. 1.04
Sound Devices, LLC
E7556 State Rd. 23 and 33 • Reedsburg, WI • USA
+1 (608) 524-0625 • fax: +1 (608) 524-0655
Toll-Free: (800) 505-0625
www.sounddevices.com
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  • Page 1 Portable Production Mixer and Recorder User Guide and Technical Information firmware rev. 1.04 Sound Devices, LLC E7556 State Rd. 23 and 33 • Reedsburg, WI • USA +1 (608) 524-0625 • fax: +1 (608) 524-0655 Toll-Free: (800) 505-0625 www.sounddevices.com UDMA...

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Peak + VU12 Peak Only12 Linking the 664 With Another 664 or 552 Mixer . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Peak Hold12 Linking to Other Mixers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Input Activity LED .
  • Page 4 The sound waves logo is a registered trademark of Sound Devices, LLC . Limitation of Liability LIMITATION ON SOUND DEVICES’ LIABILITY . SOUND DEVICES, LLC SHALL NOT BE LIABLE TO THE PURCHASER OF THIS PRODUCT OR THIRD PARTIES FOR DAMAGES, LOSSES, COSTS, OR EXPENSES INCURRED BY PURCHASER OR THIRD PAR- TIES AS A RESULT OF: ACCIDENT, MISUSE, OR ABUSE OF THIS PRODUCT OR UNAUTHORIZED MODIFICATIONS, REPAIRS, OR ALTERATIONS TO THIS PRODUCT, OR FAILURE TO STRICTLY COMPLY WITH SOUND DEVICES, LLC’S OPERATING AND...

  • Page 5: Front Panel Descriptions

    HP monitor mono mix. The Internal Timecode LED 664 supports simultaneous PFL of multiple When the 664 is powered down and timecode inputs. Does not affect Master Output signal. Mode is Freerun or 24-Hour Run, the Internal...

  • Page 6: Left Panel Connectors And Control

    664 User Guide and Technical Information Headphone Encoder Slate / Tone Switch Meter and Input Settings Screen: Turn to adjust Slide left to activate the Slate Microphone, slide headphone gain. In MaiPush to select head- again to deactivate. For momentary action phone monitor source.

  • Page 7: Right Panel Connectors And Controls

    Line, -10, and Mic levels in Setup Link I/O Menu section OUTPUTS. 10-pin A outputs can Used to link additional Sound Devices 664, 552, be set to AES Outputs 5,6 and 7,8 in the Setup 302, 442, or MixPre mixers.

  • Page 8: Rear Panel Descriptions

    Accepts approved CompactFlash cards with the dard 3-pin XLR connectors. Pin 1 = Ground; label-side toward the rear of the 664. Compat- pin 2 = Hot (+); pin 3 = Cold (-). Unbalance by ible with Type I and Type II cards. High-speed grounding pin 3 to pin 1.

  • Page 9: Screen Overview

    664 User Guide and Technical Information Screen Overview Main Screen The Main Screen displays important information at-a-glance. The Main Screen can be accessed quickly from any other screen by pressing the Meters button. Display of the sample rate information and timecode frame rate information can be “swapped” by holding the Meters button and Sliding the RTN Switch to the left.

  • Page 10: Input Setup And Control

    664 User Guide and Technical Information Input Setup and Control The 664 has six, full-featured audio inputs on XLR connectors (six additional inputs on TA3 connectors with the optional CL-6 Input Expander attached). Each analog input has a wide gain range to accom- modate nearly all signal types, from microphones to line-level sources.
  • Page 11 664 User Guide and Technical Information 3) Input Selection Displays the available input types. To change the input type, push the Headphone Encoder, turn it to make a selection, and push it again to confirm the selection. Input Type Description Input off .

  • Page 12: Phantom Power

    Trim control. Once the coarse gain is set to the desired level, push the Trim control to hide it from the 664’s mixing surface. Analog trim level is adjustable from +22 to +72 dB of gain.

  • Page 13: High-Pass Filter

    Many microphones have on-board high pass filters. Use the high-pass filters on the 664 in conjunction with the microphone’s filter to increase the filter’s slope. The filter can be removed from the circuit completely by rotating the high-pass filter control to the full counter-clockwise (detented) position.

  • Page 14: M/S Matrixing10

    The 664 accepts AES3 (AES/EBU) balanced, AES42 (digital microphone) balanced, and AES3id unbal- anced digital signals on the Input 1 and Input 6 XLR connectors. The 664 auto-detects between AES3 and AES3id digital signals and adjust accordingly. Digital input gain is controlled from the front panel faders.

  • Page 15: Limiters

    Limiters prevent clipping by attenuating signals that surpass a set threshold. The amount of attenua- tion is defined by the “ratio” of the limiter and expressed as two numbers. All 664 limiters use a 20:1 compression ratio. This means that signal that exceeds the threshold by 20 dB will exit the limiting stage at only 1 dB above the threshold.

  • Page 16: Metering

    Peak + VU The 664 can simultaneously display VU and Peak level information. In this mode the perceived loud- ness (VU) is displayed as a standard bar, and the Peak signal as a single, independent segment above the VU.

  • Page 17: Input Activity Led

    Headphone gain during adjustment Headphone Encoder The 664 can drive headphones to dangerously high volumes. Turn down the headphone gain before selecting a headphone source to prevent accidental signal extremes. Headphone Source Selection To select the monitor source, push the Headphone Encoder while viewing the Main Screen to display the Monitor Source List.

  • Page 18: Headphone Presets14

    664 User Guide and Technical Information Encoder to highlight a source, and press the Headphone Encoder to select that source. The signal to the headphone outputs will immediately change to the selected program. Monitor Source Description LR ST Master Bus in stereo .

  • Page 19: Pfl (Channel Solo Monitor)

    664 User Guide and Technical Information PFL (Channel Solo Monitor) Slide the PFL switch left to activate, and again to deactivate. For momen- tary action, hold the switch left for one second or longer. PFL stands for “Pre-Fade Listen”. When any input’s PFL is activated, the currently selected Monitor Source is replaced with the PFL mix program.

  • Page 20: Output Setup And Control

    AES digital input signals are not available on direct outputs. Tape Output The 664 includes two unbalanced tape level outputs, a TA3 connector and a 3.5 mm jack. These two connectors are resistively in parallel and are isolated from the balanced outputs.

  • Page 21: Master And Aux Bus Level

    COM Setup The 664 features an unbalanced stereo COM Send (TA3) and an balanced mono COM RTN (TA3) for communications purposes. These special input and output channels can be used to privately commu- nicate with a boom operator or other member of the production crew.

  • Page 22: Com Send Program

    By default, the Com Send program will mute when slate communication is engaged. This helps the boom operator hear the voice of the 664 operator. This behavior can be disabled so that the Com Send program is not muted when communication is engaged via the Setup Menu option COMMS/RETURNS >...

  • Page 23: Internal Slate Mic19

    COMMS/RETURNS > Program Auto-Mute. Internal Slate Mic The default slate mic is the 664’s internal slate microphone. The 664’s built-in slate microphone is used to notate scenes from the mixer location. Its audio performance is not suitable for critical recording ap- plications;...

  • Page 24: Digital Audio Recorder

    . Recording Tracks Each input of the 664 has a corresponding Iso Track and is permanently routed to it. Inputs 1-6 can be routed to their respective ISO tracks pre- or post-fade (see Input Setup and Control).

  • Page 25: Track Arming21

    See CL-6 Input Expander Track-to-Media Routing The 664 supports simultaneous recording to CF and SD media. See Recording Media for details. default, all armed tracks are recorded to both cards as a polyphonic WAV file. Recording options are set independently for each memory card from the Setup Menu items RECORDER > Record to CF and RECORDER >...

  • Page 26: Track Naming22

    Setup Menu option System > Track Names in Meters to On. The follow- ing image shows the Main Screen with Track names. Sampling Rate The 664’s digital audio recorder can record at the following sampling rates: • 44.1 kHz • 48 kHz •...

  • Page 27: Word Clock Synchronization23

    By default the 664 recorder uses its own internal clock to generate its sampling rate. The BNC Word Clock input and Word Clock output on the rear of the 664 can be used to clock the 664 from an exter- nal word clock signal or to synchronize external audio devices to the 664’s word clock.

  • Page 28: Time Code

    All files generated by the 664 have time code numbers that begin on the 0 frame (or 02 in DF modes) and end on the 0 frame such that a file’s duration is always an integer number of seconds long. If nec- essary, pre-roll and post-roll is dynamically applied to accomplish this.

  • Page 29: Timecode Frame Rate25

    Reader mode. The internal timecode generator follows an external timecode signal appearing at the time code input. If the external timecode is removed the internal generator stops as well. The 664 automatically begins recording when running time code is sensed. When stopped time code is sensed, recording stops.

  • Page 30: Jam Menu26

    External user bits Internal user bits To jam the 664’s internal timecode (and User Bits) to external time code, push the Headphone Control- ler while the Jam Menu is displayed. To leave the Jam Menu without jamming to external timecode, press the Menu Button or the Meters Button.

  • Page 31: Pre-Roll

    The 664 uses rock-stable word clock and PLL circuitry to generate its internal clock frequency.

  • Page 32: File Management

    The 664 writes files to both CompactFlash (CF) and Secure Digital (SD) storage media. Storage me- dia must be formatted as FAT32 volumes prior to use with the 664. CF and SD storage media in- serted into the 664 can be formatted with Setup Menu option FILE STORAGE > Erase/Format CF and FILE STORAGE >...

  • Page 33: File Type29

    The 664 records audio to the industry-standard Broadcast Wave file format. Additionally, the 664 can record to MP3 format. Recording WAV or MP3 is selectable per media, from the Setup Menu items RECORDER > Record to CF, and RECORDER > Record to SD. The 664 can write files to both cards simultaneously.

  • Page 34: Folder Options30

    ML-aware software applications this data is available. For applications that don’t recognize bEXT or iXML, this information is ignored. Metadata is included in MP3 files inside the ID3 tags. Metadata in MP3 files can not be edited with the 664. www.sounddevices.com v .

  • Page 35: Sound Reports31

    664 User Guide and Technical Information Sound Reports The 664 can generate sound reports as a comma separated values (CSV) file. CSV files can be opened and edited by any common spreadsheet application such as Microsoft Excel, OpenOffice Calc, Apple Numbers, Google Docs, and many more.

  • Page 36: Take Management

    • Notes • Length Generating Sound Reports A sound report can be generated for all the files in any folder on the 664. Sound reports are created from the File List. To generate a sound report: 1. Press and hold the Menu Button and then press the Headphone Encoder to access the Take List.

  • Page 37: Take Number33

    664 User Guide and Technical Information Take Number A take is a single recording that may represented by a file on each media. Takes are labeled numeri- cally and begin at the number 1. Each new recording creates a new take. The take number will incre- ment by one until it is reset.

  • Page 38: Take Notes And Phrases34

    Often, a particular phrase will be used in the notes field of many different takes. To save data entry time, the 664 provides the ability to save phrases that can be entered into the notes field quickly. To edit, create, and use phrases: 1.

  • Page 39: Playback

    Playback The 664 can play back any file it has recorded. To play back the last file recorded or loaded, push the Play Button. In the Take List or File List, pressing the Play button will initiate playback of the high- lighted take.

  • Page 40: Mixer Linking

    To Link the 664 to another 664 or 552 mixer: 1. Connect the Link I/O of the 664 to the Link I/O of the other 664 or 552 mixer using a TA5F to TA5F cable (Sound Devices XL-TA55 optional accessory). This will send the stereo mix of each mixer directly to the stereo output bus of both mixers.

  • Page 41: Linking To A Mixpre-D Or Original Mixpre37

    To link a Sound Devices 302 or 442 to a 664: 1. Connect the Link I/O of the 664 to the Tape Out/Mix Out of a 302 or 442 using a Sound Devices XL-TA35 cable. This sends the stereo mix of both mixers directly to the stereo Master Bus of the 664.

  • Page 42: Voltage Metering

    A numeric reading of the internal and external voltage levels is displayed in the Setup Menu main level at all times. Internal voltage is displayed on the left side and external voltage is displayed on the right side (This example shows a 664 powered from a 12.0V external power supply with no AA batter- ies inserted): The voltage range of the DC Voltage Indicator and the Warning Voltage Threshold can be adjusted.

  • Page 43: Storing And Recalling Settings

    Storing and Recalling Settings The 664 can store and recall user settings to User Setup Files on the SD card, CF card, or internal memory. User Setup Files contain all settings made in the Setup Menu and all Input Settings (includ- ing routing).

  • Page 44: Setup Menu

    664 User Guide and Technical Information Setup Menu The chart below shows the Setup Menu number, Function name, a description of the control, options available within that menu, and the factory default setting. Inputs Parameter Name Description Options Ch 1-2 Linking »...

  • Page 45: Limiters

    664 User Guide and Technical Information Parameter Name Description Options TA3-X2 Out Select the analog output level of the Aux 2 TA3 output . • Mic » Line • -10 Direct Out Levels Select the analog output level of the TA3 Direct •...

  • Page 46: Comms/Returns

    » Internal • Word Clock Timecode Mode Sets the running mode for the internal timecode • Off generator and/or the method which the 664 receives • Rec Run SMPTE timecode . . » Free Run • 24h Run • Ext-TC •...

  • Page 47: File Storage

    Sets the duration that a valid time code signal has to • 0 .0-8 .0 s (0 .1 second increment) be recognized by the 664 before generating a new » 0 .0 seconds take while in Ext TC-Auto Record and Ext TC/cont- Auto Record modes .

  • Page 48: System

    Options Max File Size » 4GB Selects the file size when the 664 will close, then start a new file . The 664 will not record a file • 2GB larger than the selected size . • 1GB The largest file permissible with the 664’s FAT32 •...

  • Page 49: Quick Setup

    • dd/mm/yy • yy/mm/dd Set Time/Date Displays a dialog where the 664 time and date can be set . When highlighter is orange, turn Headphone Encoder to highlight a field and press Headphone Encoder to edit . When highlighter is blue, turn Headphone Encoder to change the value, and press Headphone Encoder to accept the value .

  • Page 50: Front Panel Button Shortcuts

    664 User Guide and Technical Information Front Panel Button Shortcuts To speed navigation the 664 has numerous navigation “shortcuts”. For combinations, press and hold down the first identified key then press the next identified key(s). Function Key Sequence Action False Take Press and hold the Headphone Encoder then slide the Transport Control left (Rewind) .

  • Page 51: Connector Pin Assignments

    Used to link the 664 to Sound Devices MixPre, MixPre-D, Mixer Link I/O 2 – HP R 302, 442, 552, or 664 Field Mixers . Mates with Sound 3 – Mix R Devices XL-TA25, XL-35, and XL-TA55 optional accessory 4 – Mix L cables .
  • Page 52 4 – tuning out 5 – SMPTE TC out (1) Hirose 4-pin 1 – ground 10-18 Volt DC input . Mates with Sound Devices XL-NPH DC Input 2 – not connected and XL-WPH3 powering accessories . See Accessories for 3 – not connected details .

  • Page 53: Routing Diagram

    664 User Guide and Technical Information Routing Diagram Tracks Direct Outputs RTN A RTN B RTN C COM RTN LR Outputs AUX Outputs AES Outputs A, B, C, D Monitor Left Monitor Right = Route Switch = Route Assignment COM Send...

  • Page 54: Specifications

    XLR Line: Active-balanced for use with ≤2k ohm outputs RTN A,B,C (3 .5 mm/10-pin): Unbalanced stereo for use with ≤2k ohm outputs Link I/O: Unbalanced stereo for linking to Sound Devices MixPre, 302, 442, 552, and 664 . Input Impedance...

  • Page 55: Digital Outputs/Recorder

    664 User Guide and Technical Information Line Output Clipping Level 20 dBu minimum with 10k load (1% THD) Maximum Output Level Line (XLR, 10-pin Hirose, TA3 Balanced and Direct Outs): +20 dBu (7 .8 Vrms) -10 (XLR, 10-pin Hirose): +6 dBu (1 .5 V rms) Mic (XLR, 10-pin Hirose, TA3 Balanced and Direct Outs): -20 dBu (0 .078 Vrms)

  • Page 56: Power

    664 User Guide and Technical Information Power External Power Supply Isolated (floating) DC input jack, 10-18 V Locking 4-pin Hirose connector, pin-4 = (+), pin-1 = (-) . Mates with gold Hirose #HR10A-7P-4P (DigiKey# HR110-ND) or silver Hirose #HR10- 7P-4P (DigiKey# HR100-ND) locking connector .

  • Page 57: Accessories

    NP-type battery cup with 24-inch cable terminated in Hirose 4-pin lock- ing DC connector (HR10-7P-4P) at equipment end. XL-TA25 TA5F to 3.5 mm TRS, 12-inch, used to connect 664 TA5M Link I/O to the MixPre or 442 Tape Out/Mix Out 3.5 mm jack for mixer linking. XL-TA35 TA5F to TA3F, 12-inch, used to connect 664 TA5M Link I/O to 302 or 442 Tape Out/Mix Out TA3M connector for mixer linking.

  • Page 58: Wave Agent

    664 User Guide and Technical Information Wave Agent Wave Agent Beta is a WAV file librarian for Mac OS and Windows computers. Designed for Produc- tion Sound Mixers and Post Production Editors, Wave Agent provides a comprehensive and indis- pensable range of tools for preparing audio files for problem-free passage through complex produc- tion workflows.

  • Page 59: Declaration Of Conformity

    664 User Guide and Technical Information Declaration of Conformity According to EN ISO/IEC 17050-1:2004 Manufacturer’s Name: Sound Devices, LLC Manufacturer’s Address: E7556 State Rd . 23 and 33 Reedsburg, WI 53959 Declares under sole responsibility that the product as delivered...

  • Page 60: Warranty And Technical Support

    Sound Devices cannot guarantee that a given computer, software, or operating system configuration can be used satisfactorily with 664 generated files based exclusively on the fact that it meets our minimum system requirements. Please check with your software editing application to make certain that it is compatible with the file type selected v .
  • Page 62 Sound Devices 664 - Firmware v 1.04...

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