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Gear / Technical Help => Ask The Tapers => Topic started by: in2blues on May 26, 2017, 09:36:00 AM
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Does any one ever use auto rec on deck. I was in situation where band was cool but club said no. Didn't even let people record clips with cell phones. As band was cool I put Sony M-11 in pocket and hoped levels would be okay. Once deck in pocket couldn't take out to adjust levels. Ended up clipping a few times but not totally ruined. Was thinking maybe should have put on auto levels but never used and not sure how much of a difference it would have made. Any one?
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I've used it on my M-10 from time to time. I think it did a good job maintaining the levels. A few times when the music was really loud the recordings were a little hot but not ruined.
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Limiter on, level set between 1.75 - 2 with mic sensitivity on low, that's my "pocket" setting for EMTEN...
Oh yeah, backlight on 10 sec...
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Yeah, you want the limiter, not auto levels. The limiter just flattens out the peaks to avoid clipping; auto levels tend to raise the gain during quiet bits and lower it during the loud ones, which is very much not what you want.
(The very first recording I made in the digital era, I managed to have clipping all of one set, and auto levels all of the other, thanks to not knowing what I was doing with a minidisc with Japanese-language controls. I think I mildly prefer the clipped set...)
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Thanks, I think I will skip auto rec and use limiter if needed. It was the first time using deck without plug in mics. Knew I was going to have to turn levels down but wasn't sure how much. Thanks for the feedback. Don't have to many other tapers that I can ask questions to, Really thankful for this site and all you guys.