I've recently purchased the Olympus LS-10 and just bought a pair of Core Sound Cardioid's w/ batterbox. I'm new to taping and want to record an outdoor event next weekend.
I was wondering if anyone here ever tried the LS-10 with external mics? How did your recordings turn out? the manual of the LS-10 says you shouldnt connect external mic's to the LS-10's line-in jack. I'm not a tech pro and confused now... ???
The microphones go into the Mic In jack. If you had a pre-amplifier, you would use the Line In. Even with the batteries, you are using Mic Level inputs, not a pre-amplifier.
Do a test and see how they sound with "Mic Power" turned on in the LS-10 and with that same Menu item set to "Off." You may notice a difference.
Your Core Sound battery box includes a "Y" conversion cable that will join those two mono mics into a single stereo (binaural) input...which is the LS-10's "Mic In."
The LS-10 does pretty well with many external microphones. I found it to accent the "high end" a bit, compared to the Sony PCM-D50, but that takes a few seconds to adjust in Audacity or another audio editor if it doesn't please you.
Hope that helps!
The LS-10 does very well with external mics. Set the mic sensitivity to "Low" for best results.
thanks for the heads up. just received the mics and now looking forward to the weekend.
the reason I asked about the ls-10 was I read several comments on its results with external mics and everone said different things. I should have read more reviews on the LS-10 before I bought it but its appearance just attrackted me way to much that I had to go for it immediately. I will see how things turn out this weekend. Have a lot of bands to tape on my schedule. cheers
Hi just comming back from my first big festival and also first taping experience, I'm very pleased with the results. Taped 5 bands(radiohead, xavier rudd, monster magnet, kaiser chiefs and foo fighters).
Thanks to yous who gave me some advise here.
All shows recorded with CSC's > b-box > LS-10
I had some problems though, I lost one of the mic-clips so one mic always had to be corrected in its position from time to time, which you will hear now. I reckon I can fix most of the crackles but I'm not sure when I will have the time to work on the recordings.
An mp3 sample of Foo Fighters 2008-06-22 is attached to this post, let me know what ya guys reckon. cheers
Later today going to upload LS-10 technical review first edition that should answer questions on where/when you might connect external gear and some tips on using controls/features.
See this review at www.sonicstudios.com/ls10revw.htm (http://www.sonicstudios.com/ls10revw.htm)
That's a pretty good review. I found one thing to be not entirely true:
"Also, USB LS-10 CONNECTION will only recognize the external flash card if inside the deck. To access LS-10 internal memory, the external card needs be removed, and the LS-10 needs reestablish fresh USB computer connection for accessing internal deck memory."
when I connect the LS-10 to my computer Windows opens up the SDHC card + the internal memory. I once freaked out as I accidentally opened the internal memory window and couldnt find what I've just recorded, but luckly figured it out pretty quickly.
I found the file transfer of the LS-10 to the PC via USB 2.0 is pretty lame, especially when it comes to transferring huge files (takes me about 8 minutes to transfer a file about the site of 1.4 gb) therefore I bought another cheap 4gb SDHC card on ebay that comes with an adaptor for SD/SDHC to USB.