Topic: best techniques/gear for FM recordings?

[therodge]

Hey fellas,

I have a JB3 and was thinking about recording this years Merlefest FM radio broadcasts. Anyone know of a good FM tuner for a home theater reciever or portable radio that picks up well and has some nice outputs?  Thanks in advance!

[Humbug]

I run the following:

Enormous roof mounted FM aerial > Sony ST-SE500 FM radio>Cyrus II Amp>RCA>NomadJB3

That any help?

Basically, any decent FM radio will do the business, so long as you have a strong signal (I didn't, and invested in the aerial).

[sml42]

Loft-mounted omni FM antenna > Denon TU-215RD tuner > JB3. The output from the  Denon is hot enough I don't need to feed through my hifi preamp, although I generally do bump the gain by a few dB at the JB3. Yes, I could use the hifi preamp to provide gain, but I take the opinion that the fewer things in the signal path, the better. (hifi preamp is an Arcam 9C)

best regards,
stephen

[thierryhenry]

+T Steven.

[therodge]

anyone ever use the JB3 FM Wired Remote and record directly from it?  Good signal?

[aberg]

My guess is that the signal wouldn't be as good as those roof mounted giant antennas