Hey Tapers!!!!
I taped Max Creek last night at Lupos trying a new to me method, and the tape sounds great to my ears and my girlfriend's, but the WAV histogram looks really odd in both Soundforge and CDWAV, and the levels during the show seemed very odd as well. I was using DPA 4060>Shure Attenuattors at -15 Db>AD20>D8. I put my rig in a soft sided cooler and attatched the mics to opposite sides of the cooler pointing at a 45 degree angle towards the ceiling, and set the cooler down on the floor of the front of the stage, between the guitarist and keyboard player. As I was taping I thought I may have been brickwalling, because the levels were not reacting to the music as dynamically as they usually behave, like they were hitting a wall. When I transferred the WAVs to the computer, the top half of the waveforms appear as normal (in CDWAV), but the bottom of the histogram doesn't match the top half at all, it looks truncated. Usually the top half and bottom half are like reflections of each other on a lake, metaphorically speaking. This is reflected in both Soundforge and CDWAV, but in one program it looks cut off at the top and in the other program (SOundforge) it looks cut off on the bottom. Both channels are affected similiaraly. When I listen to the tape on headphones or speakers I can hear no distortion, it sounds pretty good to me, like it sounded when I was there.
Does anyone know what's up with that?