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Title: First time used the CA-14's
Post by: shadow-world on December 02, 2010, 04:05:15 AM

Hello there and thank you for a wonderful and informative site.
I got my CA-14's in the mail last week (early x-mas gift to myself). It was a well deserved upgrade from the MM-MCSM-4 from Microphonemadness which i bought and have been using since 2001 i think it was.
Uptil now i have been using those MM-MCSM-4 along with a  MM-CBM-MINI  into line-in on a Olympus LS-10 recorder and has been working very good.
Did my first taping with the CA-14's recently (loud metalshow), MM-CBM-MINI into the line in on the Olympus LS-10, result came out very good  but also very very low in volume, much lower then with the previous mics.
I have been using auto-rec-level and and low cut on aswell as mic sense low on the olympus (last setting is for the internal mics only i guess). These settings have worked very well before the CA-14's.
If you see any obvious errors i have made please point a finger at me what it is.
Plan is to buy either an Edirol R-05 or an Sony PCM-M10, but until that happens the Olympus is what i got.

Thanks for letting me vent my troubles taping.

Title: Re: First time used the CA-14's
Post by: rhinowing on December 02, 2010, 04:38:02 AM

-turn of auto-levels and low-cut
-I've found that in using my ca-11s with a sound pros battery box, the church mics tend to produce a much lower output than other brands I've tried. Turn up your levels on your recorder and you should be good

Title: Re: First time used the CA-14's
Post by: shadow-world on December 02, 2010, 04:55:31 AM

Thank you very much for answer, gonna try without the lowcut and no autolevel then  :)

Title: Re: First time used the CA-14's
Post by: pontiacb on December 02, 2010, 07:32:27 AM

I agree with Rhinowing - I also have the MM mics you have and with the mini MM battery box need to have the levels on my iRiver far lower for the MM mics than with the CA11 or CA14 cards I've got, i.e. the CA cards give a lower output.

I like my MM mics, but there is no doubt the recordings with the CA mics are better. 

Title: Re: First time used the CA-14's
Post by: rjp on December 02, 2010, 08:29:00 AM

Also keep in mind that the LS-10 doesn't provide gain in its line input; turning up the recording level to max is unity gain. A preamp might be a better idea than a battery box.

Title: Re: First time used the CA-14's
Post by: Belexes on December 02, 2010, 09:05:09 AM

CA-14 > CA-9100 > LS10 would be the way I'd go.

Title: Re: First time used the CA-14's
Post by: shadow-world on December 03, 2010, 02:51:23 AM

Thank you once again for the help.