Thanks for the amazingly helpful review of the DR-100 MKII, Steve. Here is a quick question, in my, uh, limited testing of the recorder, I believe I have stumbled on an issue with the limiter.
In MONO mode, with one mic (Rode NTG-1) plugged into the left XLR and phantom power ON, with the limiter switch on the back turned OFF, the limiter still seems to be engaged, like a brick wall at -6 db, and it sounds terrible.
Maybe it is just my machine, but I wonder if that test is repeatable? Probably nobody has tried it, why would they, who would record with one mic in mono? But if you are recording film dialogue with one shotgun mic on a boom, you might like to record in mono to get two identical channels of audio rather than having the audio only in the left channel and nothing in the right channel.
Or, if I am missing something, and that is truly the way the limiter is supposed to work in mono with one mic, I'm wondering why. What purpose would it serve to have the limiter still engaged in mono even when the switch on the back is turned off?
In stereo mode, with the limiter switch OFF, it works like I would expect, and will clip at 0 db. With the limiter switch ON in stereo mode, the limiter does seem to work, it sounds much better, and you can approach 0 db without being slammed at -6.
Thanks for any advice,
jimbee