I just made a couple of test recordings of the home stereo, constantly bumping the level meters off of 0, with an OL or two. Listening to the recording through a wav editor, I hear a crackle at the OL spots. The rest sounds fine, but the waveform looks like there was a lot of clipping. The side LED was at -3 almost constantly
That sounds exactly like what happened to me during a show while 24-bit recording when I was testing the limits of the trim/gain. I had the mic trim all the way open and the rec level at about 1:00. Got a small crackle at the loudest parts of the recording that went OVER. The strange thing is that for whatever reason it was the
left channel that was a couple dB louder, lighting up OVER more than the right, and had the mic peak indicator lit the whole time yet the crackle is only audible on the
right channel?? That puzzled me. All considered though it handled pretty darn gracefully as I expected the recording to be completely ruined. Needless to say I won't be running that hot again, ever.
I've used this deck for about 12 shows so far and have to say that I'm loving it. Congrats to Fostex for the battery options. Currently just using energizer e
2 batteries and I completely fill up a 4 gig card @ 24/48 (with phantom, no backlight, continuous metering) without the battery dropping 1 bar--very impressive. Been using SanDisk Ultra II with no problems, but have yet to try 24/96 with them.
-james