Sound Devices Scorpio
Premium portable mixer-recorder
Recorder$11,995Manufacturer list price
Specifications
- Type
- Recorder
- Description
- Premium portable mixer-recorder
- Signal path
- Digital (recallable / digitally controlled)
- Channels
- 16
- Channel format
- 16x mic/line preamps, 32x32 Dante I/O, AES in/out, up to 12 individually-mixed buses
- Form factor
- Portable, cart/bag-mountable
- Connection
- USB-C, SD card, Dante, AES
- Sample rate (kHz)
- 44.1-192
- Bit depth
- 16-32-bit float
- DSP
- true
- Introduced
- 2019
- Country of manufacture
- USA
- Phantom power
- 48V
Details
Controls: Touchscreen, physical faders/knobs, fully-customizable routing matrix (any input to any channel/bus/output)
I/O: 16x mic/line preamps, 12 analog outputs, multiple headphone outputs, 32ch Dante in/out, AES in/out, 2x SD card slots, internal 256GB SSD, USB-C, TA3 timecode I/O
Notable use: Flagship mixer-recorder for large-scale film/TV production sound and mobile broadcast carts
Notes: FLAG: most powerful/highest-channel-count product in current Sound Devices lineup; also functions as a USB audio interface (2-in/2-out class-compliant, plus 32-ch via Dante). FLAG price conflict: B&H Photo lists $11,995 (used here); other sources cited $9,900 and $11,500 - could not fully reconcile, treat as approximate street price, not confirmed official MSRP.