Topic: new here, and looking for some setting advice...

[rhinowing]

standup can be difficult because of people laughing, talking, etc. best bet is to get as close to a speaker as possible and run your levels hot

[brokenviolin]

ive had success just using a dictaphone for comedy and stuff...just bit worried how to go about this with the edirol r09

cheers for ya help

[rhinowing]

I taped Eugene Mirman with the R-09 (internal mics), in essentially the same manner I would use a dictaphone to tape a lecture for school. It came out pretty well...

[brokenviolin]

what settings did you use?

[rhinowing]

Got up about 5 feet from a speaker, ran the levels hot, and then applied a good amount of limiting in post. it came out well

[brokenviolin]

dont wanna appear duno, but im still a novice at this, whats mean by 'ran the levels hot, and then applied a good amount of limiting in post'?

[TimeBandit]

with limiting means the laughters in the audience will be louder on your recording then the speaker ... especially when you recording on a bad spot or they doesn´t use amplification , like in very small clubs.

with limiter in post pro (cubase, audition, wavelab etc ...) you can set the levels from speaker and audience noice to almost the same so it´s good listenable.

if amplification is used try to record front of a stack.

no amplification, try to get in front row in the center.

[brokenviolin]

Cheers, got a basic grasp of where to position myself. Off to edinburgh comedy festival this weekend, and was hoping to try capture some of the shows. Has worked alright with a dictaphone and cheap external clip mic onto my shirt pocket.

Im more concerned about what setting to set my recorder too. i.e for a band i used:

Sony ECM 719 > Edirol R-09
44.1KHz / WAV-24bit
Imput set to level '25' (-5 than its maxium)
AGC - off
LOW CUT - off
MIC GAIN - low
    - obv thats for a noisey rock band, not sure the same settings will work with 'speech', plus mp3 or wav??  - Again has been pointed out, that record what i can best qulaity/settings possible to im able to play with in post with audacity

-Sorry to anyone on the board that finds my posts abit dopey/novice/repeative. But all gotta start somewhere i suppose!