Schoeps MK5 - Nbob Actives - TinyBox with Low-Mid-High Standard Gain & Trafo Out & Dir Out - Sony M10
My normal settings with this set up so far for clubs up front & concerts from mid floor have been Tinybox on Mid Trafo Out and the Sony M10 record knob around 3-4-5.
I get good levels and the recordings once normalized sound great. I use the MID gain as the low will not give me the levels I need without pushing the M10 past 5.
Then came Rush. I had front row seats in front of the stack and it was LOUD and the levels were slamming.
The first error was that setting on the M10 was set to Auto Rec. I fixed that 1 song in
and then put the Tinybox to Low and then everything looked great. Smooth even levels and life was good....
until I got in the car. The recording is nothing but distortion & major pops throughout, well actually the first song that had auto levels came out pretty good!
The second time this happened was even more of a shocker as I just recorded one band on my normal settings of
Tinybox set to MID with Transfor Out & M10 on 3 and they came out great but the next band I did that was a little bass heavy
came out distorted & pops like Rush, though not as severe, and I was 30 feet away from the main stack and again the levels looked right.
Has anyone pulled a stack tape with this set up? What setting do you use? Should I have not used Transfo out in
a super loud scenario?
The Schoeps can handle a head in the major concert stack tape right?
What exactly does Trafo out do again? Just add color? (embarrassed to ask that but.....)
Sample Below.
Any thoughts or ideas would be great.
Thanks,
Datfly
RUSH
Stiletto Red