Topic: problem recording, need help bad

[zhianosatch]

Schwilly, try catpuring a screen shot of the waveform in SF. Post those too.

[Sean Gallemore]

aight

[Sean Gallemore]

a pic of the good sounding waveform

[Sean Gallemore]

a pic of the bad sounding clip, both are at 1:4 scale

[zhianosatch]

those are some seriously low levels.

[Brian Skalinder]

a pic of the bad sounding clip, both are at 1:4 scale

Ew.

[Sean Gallemore]

those are some seriously low levels.

it's an analog transfer, automatically gets degained by 12dB

[zhianosatch]

Gotcha. Feel free to get the 520 whenever.

[Sean Gallemore]

basically, I used recorded a show on friday night, and I got vary results throughout the show.  The opening band had no bass.  The beginning of the headlining band had a little more bass (probably because there was more bass at the show) and the at the end of the headlining band there is tons of bass but mad distortion.

here's a link to the torrent of mp3s very small clips

here's a link to the thread that discusses this problem

sorry for cross-posting but this is driving me nuts.  any thoughts and help are appreciated.

[Sean Gallemore]

here is an mp3 of the opening band, moonspell.  There was loads more bass at the show, I have no clue where it went.

All my bass are belong somewhere else  

[Sean Gallemore]

link to the moonspell recording, this is the "no bass" problem I'm talking about.  Again, to clarify, I didn't use any of the settings on the mp-2, just the "69htz" setting on the battery box which shouldn't be rolling this much bass!

[zhianosatch]

I'm dumbfounded by the lack of bass problem.

My Sound Pro AT831s (Schwilly used Spargey's 831s, not mine this time) always worked fine for Schwilly with my AD-20. So did Spargey's at some local bands and King Crimson. Bass galore. Sound Pro battery box bass roll-off set at "69" and "95" Hz worked just right. 10k ohms impedance on the AD-20 input.

The MP-2 worked fine with my DPA 4061s and MPS-6010 at Primus. I chose to use the JK Labs homebrew roll-off on my DPA MPS-6010 instead of the MP-2's - I was more familiar with the DPA box and decided not to mess. Worked perfectly... so I seriously doubt that the lack of bass (most evident in the first band, Moonspell) is due to some malfucktion in the MP-2.

There is a SEVERE lack of bass throughout the first band's set, and the entire show, for that matter. It sounds like ass because of that, and they rocked, so this needs to be figured out for next time.
Maybe this lack of bass is due to the combination of the SP-CMC-whatevers (AT831s) > SP-regular battery box, who knows those #s anyway > MP-2. Hell if I know.
Armen

[Sean Gallemore]

armen, thanx for more clearly stating my situation.  I'm pretty sure the distortion is a power issue of some sort, I guess I will just have to switch batteries after ever set.

But the bass, where or where did my bass go.  I thought the mp-2 was supposed to be warm, whatever that means.  This sounds more like a Sound pals box

[zhianosatch]

The batts were new, especially for the opener!
I had no trouble using brand new alkalines at Primus, and I had it running for yea around 3 hours.
D'oh!

[Sean Gallemore]

next show I'll won't be using the battery box roll-off and see how the mp-2 roll-off fairs.

I also need to get some new rechargables.