Topic: Woops I did it again (overloaded)

[petur]

First real rock concert recording in quite some time and I screwed up.

If the levels on my H300 never got to 0dB (much lower even) and the waveform shows no clipping either, what's giving the distortion? It looks like there's hair on the signal...

The concert was very bass heavy and my gear was on stage, I fear my cardoids were more or less pointing directly to the amp of the bass player (about 4 meters away).

Mic overloading or amp? If I engage the bass roll-off, this will only help if it was the amp that was overloaded, right? My amp gain knop was pointing +/- towards the power led (if that makes any sense to other ST-9100 owners)

I've uploaded a short sample here: users.telenet.be/petur/clip.wav

gear: Chris Church cardoids -> ST-9100 -> iriver h380

[Belexes]

Could have overloaded at the ST-9100.  I taped a loud concert and overloaded at the pre, but my levels on my M1 never clipped.


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[petur]

ROFL!

Anyway, I'm just sooooo mad at myself, I measured my battery and it only has 7,30V
Crap, taping with a flat battery is not a good idea.

I'm going to see the same show again tonight and I'll try to replicate (or rather not) with a fresh battery.


edit: let it run for some time and battery voltage was dropping like mad, a flat one indeed

[Nicola Fankhauser]

hi

I experienced this myself on loud shows, too. I use MM-HLSO, with a 9v bbox on a R-09. please do post back what the last show you'll tape with a fresh battery sounds like...

regards
nicola

[petur]

Taped the same band tonight again, and the show was even louder (as in: my ears were hurting).

The recording came out fine.... Phew!

So tip of the day: check that battery before leaving