to properly run the V3 in analog, you want to only peak at the first set of red lights at -9dB. So you'd have some powerful tall level increasing to do in post, along with all the processing and room noise, etc.
Perhaps an inexpensive pair of line transformers will bump the gain enough to run into whatever ADC / recording device you choose.
Just to clarify, he meant the digital signal would be weak, meaning the v3 dig out > m1 levels would be low since you would be running the v3 with little gain to accomplish the analog levels you need for the Tascam.
That does bring up another question though, thanks Brian! Would it be a bad idea to run a pad on the analog > DV-RA so that I could run a hotter signal and achieve better levels for the digital out?
Please correct me if I'm wrong, when the Tascam manual says
The DV-RA1000 can accept and ouput both balanced +4bDu and unbalanced -10dBV signals. means that (by the V3 manual) I would want to run levels at -21dBFS which is +4dBu balanced analog out. If I were to pad the analog out -20db to achieve +4dBu I could run the V3 up to +24 (+25 brings up the red light). Basically I could rely on the V3's meters and have a nice hot signal.
3 things:
- How much would a -20db pad impact the signal sound wise and is there any substantial inherent noise involved?
- Should I be even considering optimizing this setup to run a backup, is the loss if any worth the gain?
- I don't know if there's anything to it, but I've always thought the V3 sounded better when I ran it hot, but that could have been other factors. Any personal opinions out there?