So this morning as I was trying to figure out which day I’d made a recording on an went looking through the various directories of files I’d pulled off the Deity PR-2, I realized that the lack of dates in the file names it creates are a real problem.

It’s not a unique problem, it’s common on equipment made for the film industry where everything is apparently named “scene name”-“take number” stuffed into a directory with a date name. The problem is for us who aren’t filming scenes and takes, it’s all too easy to end up with multiple directories filled with files with the same name. Sure, it’s no big deal for the film people but it get’s confusing as hell when you:

a. Dump the files into iTunes, or

b. Look at them in Soundly, or

c. Pull several of them into an editor

Ugh. Do the people who make these products ever use them?

I’d chosen the Deity PR-2 over the Zoom F2-BT because it seemed like a nicer unit, but the Zoom not only has the ability to add notes to files but also allows them to have date names. And film types can also do word+index.

The SoundDevices MixPre recorders have the same problem, but at least there you can easily change the filename from the bluetooth app, and you can do it while it’s recording or after the fact. Deity’s app is nowhere near that capable.