Alright SO
I hit Valentines bar in Albany last night (gotta represent the home town!) to tape the Dresden Dolls. Know the band and the soundguy already but didn't bring the right cables for a patch (dope that I am).
SO, excuse the use of MD, but knowing my levels, my recorders, the DD sound, venue sound, etc, I tape a set of stealth mics to each set of speakers and just hit record before they come on so I can focus on working my video recorder up close (Dynamic Audio Binaurals > Sony MD on one speaker, Sonic Studios DSM-6S/L > Sharp MD on the other).
Now, the video came out great. But by the time there set was over, under 80 min, both my MDs had stopped recording on their own at various times. The Sharp (had the same problem with this two nights ago) stopped recording 5 minutes in before the band came on, but saved the data?! While the Sony recorded about 60 minutes of the show but cut out portions of the set here and there at no sensible order (not according to volume or anything, loud and quiet parts of songs missing, etc).
SO, I HOPE this HAS to be either a problem with batteries (which seems impossible...if they were shorting out why would the data save itself...and even keep recording with the sony?...and Ive used these same rechargables on my 6-show trek to see A Perfect Circle with no problems at all) or the MDs themselves (HAS TO be that the bunch I picked up from BestBuy are fucking defective)...
I don't think its the mics/bb's etc since it happened with DSMs, DABs, and also when I patched out of AKGs the other night with my Sharp MD. Is there some Magical setting that I am missing after a year's worth of taping? Comments appreciated...hope its just faulty md's and this doesn't happen again or I'll probably be frustrated enough to quit taping altogether.
Peace and Love not in the hippy-way
Keith