Topic: Will this Rig get good results?

[darktrain]

I am trying out a new rig next week at a small/medium venue rock show. Here's what i have Sony TCD-D8, and Microphone Madness Sennheiser Driver Cardiods MM-HLSC2 which have an awesome spl of 138 without a battery box, in your opinions do you think that will do a good job, or would the battery box be needed. In my tests at home it seems that just the mic and the d8 should produce a very nice recording.

thanks

[Brennan]

that's a pretty good SPL, don't think you'll have a problem

how did you go about testing it though? (how do you give 'tickets'?)

[Lil Kim Jong-Il]

I don't know those mics, but if you are going into the D8 mic pre and you are at a show with high volumes (which I assume because you mention SPL), you will very likely over drive the mic preamp input stage.  Seach for "brickwall" and you'll find some info about what happens.  You can try this at home with your stereo if it will play loudly and put your mics right up to the speaker.  It takes way less than 138db to hit the input limit of the D8 mic pre.  If you can use a battery box or preamp and drive into the D8 line input, you'll be safer at a loud show. 

If your mic preamp is driven within its operating range, the tape should sound good.  Good luck.

[dorrcoq]

(how do you give 'tickets'?)

You can't give them until you reach 50 posts

[Arni99]

i use the sennheiser mics aswell with my iriver´s h140 line-input and a battery box.
u won´t have distortion problems on LINE-IN with battery box, cause these mics don´t pick up that much bass.
u might have to boost bass and treble in post a bit.
i recorded some big indoor rock shows and the result was great (after i boosted the bass +8dB up to 200Hz with audacity).
good luck

[dkarDaGobert]

hm arni - i though you´re using your bass roll off every show around 150Hz?

[Arni99]

hm arni - i though you´re using your bass roll off every show around 150Hz?

no, only when using my sp-tfb-2 binaural mics .