Ok here’s a tricky one.
I didn’t want to start a new topic because we were just talking about modded m10 recorders a page ago.
I have an m10 I sent to Doug to do a acm mod on.
I was pretty sure I had checked everything out and it was solid and everything worked as it should, but at the show, mic in was giving me left channel only or reading very little right channel using mic in. I pulled the cable out and switched to line in and had to go all the way to volume at 10 to get a decent level and then when the band started the levels looked fine but they would suddenly peak to full over and I would ease them down to reasonable— levels about 5– and they would look okay until suddenly they’d look way too low in a reasonably loud section so I’d ease them up and they’d jump to way over again.
This went on all night until I checked at the end applauding and realized I’d set the mic sens to high.
I hadn’t done that since the DAT days!
So my question is:
What the hell, man!
No, wait. My question is:
Is this something caused by the high sense setting?
Is there something I’ve overlooked, posting the sub menu?
(The recording setting was manual not auto)
Still, I don’t understand the physics of how this recording went wrong.
It was to the built in memory and not the card.
What I’m wondering is if I can trust the deck as my only deck for more shows if I change some settings or if I have to send it in for diagnostics? With this mod I’d expected to be able to use mic in for more gain, but never really need it at rock shows, but eventually I will.
Here is the tape, in all its messy glory:
https://wetransfer.com/downloads/96c96281a7204ec398de47ab91e1860020211109030858/82ded2d96610b28b1c9ad18f50fd139120211109030916/6a4bc5The weird skipping between loud and quiet and the super quiet portions have me confused.
Thanks for any interest in discussing!