When you're taping a loud show with 4061s would you be hard pressed to keep the peaks well under -10dB, or does the d:vice just not provide that much headroom in your experience?
not hard pressed but they would be low. a lot of that is trying to understand the fuckery of how dpa app controls level (nothing like what support tells you, they dont understand it), and the voicerecorder pro app (with non-intuitive scales like VU mixed in with FSD). AFAIK if you make sure low cut is off in DPA app and never open it again, it stays off. and skipping dpa app and setting levels in apogee metarecorder seems accurate and reliable
also the fact that as remarkable a mic series that the 406x is, they do distort at lower levels than a full-size cap. even if their numbers dont show that (DPA uses 1% THD as their reporting standard which masks that relative to most mfrs numbers reported at 0.5%, esp for a mic like the 406x that has the low end extension, with the energy that is more prone to distort)
You won't find me stack taping, but I've been using 4060s for nearly 10 years and have only encountered 2 or 3 shows where the SPL went beyond what they could handle. Ideally I would simply swap out my Tascam recorder for the d:vice + iPhone, but some of the early comments from 4060 users indicated that they were experiencing clipped waveforms using the d:vice with minimum gain settings in situations where running the 4060s into a portable recorder would have been fine.
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