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Gear / Technical Help => Ask The Tapers => Topic started by: Cheesecadet on October 02, 2009, 01:38:31 PM
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Hey all just a quick question. Is it okay to run my gain on my iriver at like -10 dB so I can run the 9100 hotter? I always thought it was better to get as much gain from the preamp as possible...but I guess I am curious if running the recorder's gain at below zero has an adverse effect?
What about running the 9100 at 3/4 to full gain and having the irivers gain at -20 dB?
Just curious as I have had some varying results lately. :-\
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I set my iriver gain @ 0 and adjust it all with the 9100.
I cant see an advantage to running more gain only to attenuate it later. Seems like that might introduce more floor noise.
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What about running the irivers gain at less than 0. what i mean is toggling the jotstick to the lest to go beloe 0 gain on the iriver and then cranking the 9100 to get more clean gain?
would there be any disadvantage to doing that?
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What about running the irivers gain at less than 0.
would there be any disadvantage to doing that?
NEVER do that. Absolutely horrible idea. Someone else can probably explain the reasons better, but:
1) You are taking a chance on distorting at a very loud show because if the gain must be set below 0 to keep the meters from hitting 0 db, there's a good chance your recording will be distorted. (If you did need to set the gain below 0 to keep the meters from going over, just leave the gain at 0 and attenuate with the ST-9100).
2) Besides, you get the most clean gain from the Church by setting the iriver at 0 or above. If you set the iriver at -10 dB, you'd only be effectively getting 10 dB of gain from the ST-9100 instead of 20 dB.