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Title: Korg Mr1 exprience?
Post by: jbell on June 02, 2009, 07:14:21 PM

Any advice about this device?

Title: Re: Korg Mr1 exprience?
Post by: schoepsnbox on June 02, 2009, 07:28:02 PM

I never had an issue the dozen or so times I ran one...An external power source is a must for 2hr plus recording.  Other than that my experience has been favorable...

Title: Re: Korg Mr1 exprience?
Post by: jbell on June 02, 2009, 09:14:11 PM

thanks shoeopes in box, any other advice?

Title: Re: Korg Mr1 exprience?
Post by: SmokinJoe on June 03, 2009, 11:51:16 AM

I agree with what he said as far as external battery.

Only other "lessons learned"... if you run a hot signal into the inputs it will brickwall, as will any device.  You can turn the input gain to -15, the meters look good and you think you are golden.  When you get home, it's all distorted.  If you need to turn the gain down below -6 to avoid clipping on the meters, you are close.  Normally this isn't a problem unless you are getting a patch from a source you can't turn down.  If you are running out of your own preamp... set the gain to 0 on the MR1, and adjust the gain at your preamp.

Title: Re: Korg Mr1 exprience?
Post by: edtyre on June 03, 2009, 12:15:38 PM

I'll add one more.......if you are running a pre with fixed gain
nbox, ps2 etc and you have to crank the gain on the MR-1 past
6-7 you will have all kinds of noise on the recording. I ran at +12 once
and the recording was worthless.

Title: Re: Korg Mr1 exprience?
Post by: jbell on June 03, 2009, 05:18:07 PM

Thanks for the feed back!