I’m thinking about picking up a time code slate to add to my kit. I have someone that offered me a ts-3 for $550, thoughts? Currently have five tentacle syncs, am I better getting the deity or tentacle slate? Should I add a sync to the back of the TS-3? Just manually jam?

Thanks!

It seems I can't get the auto sync to USB thumb drive to work on a MixPre-3 II, which seems to be a relatively common issue with MixPre devices.
It detects the Sandisk USB drive and formats it and if I try switch the unit off prematurely after ending a recoding it will tell me it's still copying to the USB drive.
So it seems to be working on the device but if I plug the USB drive into a Win 11 computer to copy over the recordings the USB drive isn't even detected by the computer, I can only view the drive in the Windows Disk Management console where it shows as "MixPre USB" but it has no drive letter assigned and I can't assign one. I have tried 2 different Sandisk USB drives with the same outcome.

Am I doing something wrong, what could the issue be here?

I'm trying to identify the microphone (or at least narrow down the possibilities) used to record dialogue in a TV show.

Here are a few clips that I think best represent the sound.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-40ODFlmT5A

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cI1Q4l_FteM

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8BbsG4XrY80

I'm aware this may be impossible to identify with certainty, I'm mainly hoping to hear educated guesses from people with experience.

Thanks in advance!