Hello, fellow tapers.
I went to a concert today with the perspective of taping it, obviously. My gear is Church Audio CAFS connected to a Tascam DR-07.
I've been to a concert of a local band before and taped it very successfully, with the gain of the microphones set to "mid" at the recorder and plug-in power turned off. I've adjusted the input level so that the recording levels were around -6dB and the recording came out wonderful. It was a relatively small venue, actually a pub/club, around 100 people.
Today, things were very different. The venue was a bit larger, but not too large, around 500 people. I couldn't get any reasonable levels with the gain set to "mid", so I set it to "high", and even then they seemed quite low. So I decided to turn on the plug-in power and got levels around -6dB after fiddling with the input level a bit. I checked them for some time and just let the device record after I was sure they stayed around -6dB during the louder parts.
Unfortunately, after leaving the concert and listening to the recording, I realized that the low end is completely distorted. Here's a one-minute snippet of it, I think it shows what I mean quite well :
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Any help would be appreciated, since there's another concert tomorrow and I would like to get it just right this time. The microphones are mounted on the frames of my glasses, and I'm pretty tall (6ft4), in case that makes any difference. Level control was turned off, obviously.
Thanks in advance,
D.K.