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Gear / Technical Help => Recording Gear => Topic started by: Chimney Top on January 20, 2011, 03:19:25 PM
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here is a picture of a wav file i recorded with the marantz 671 last weekend. every wav file appears to look compressed or trimmed... it doesn't look right at all... i have checked the settings, but i must be missing something. the gain was set ok. any help is great.
thanks!
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Doesnt look too bad - but looks like you may have brickwalled somewhere before reaching max gain...which, if Little Feat is still as loud as they used to be, is entirely possible.
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Assuming you had the 671s mic attenuator engaged?
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hmmm, weird.......No pad set or limiter engaged?
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all of the settings on top of the recorder were set off, such as ANC, limiter, etc.
maybe i am missing some presets in the digital (led) function?
the previous owner used it for court reporting. no telling what settings they wanted.
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Assuming you had the 671s mic attenuator engaged?
i recorded an acoustic show in a small club and it did the same thing. so, it wasn't the band...
I compared to another recording of the same show (4 channel schoeps w/ V3) and the sound quality was hardly discernable between the two, but you can tell my recording has a compressed sound.
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I cant tell from your responses - was the mic attenuator on or off?
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I cant tell from your responses - was the mic attenuator on or off?
95% sure it was set to 'flat'. the middle setting.
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Yeah it HAD to be some setting. Id triple check the 671 and see whats up, because it wouldve had peaks otherwise
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I cant tell from your responses - was the mic attenuator on or off?
95% sure it was set to 'flat'. the middle setting.
Thats not an option on the Mic Attenuator...
its either 0db or -20db
You should always have the -20db engaged with that unit - acoustic band or otherwise...
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I cant tell from your responses - was the mic attenuator on or off?
95% sure it was set to 'flat'. the middle setting.
Thats not an option on the Mic Attenuator...
its either 0db or -20db
You should always have the -20db engaged with that unit - acoustic band or otherwise...
it is not in front of me right now, but i will take a look at this.
thanks
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you've saturated the dynamic range I think- the level at any gig with any mic is going to be really serious- you need the attenuator to "step back" and get a bit of headroom.
Quite an interesting concept though- I recently recorded some short footage with my wife's iPhone (just for a laugh) and converted it with Quicktime Pro so I could import it into ProTools and it looks much the same. Only in this case- there are NO controls to do anything about it and the source (birds in trees) was really quiet.
JimP
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-20db setting worked.
i think the manual level setting got switched to ANC for a recording last night. Not a big fan of the little plastic cover, but i've learned i need to use it now.
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-20db setting worked.
i think the manual level setting got switched to ANC for a recording last night. Not a big fan of the little plastic cover, but i've learned i need to use it now.
I started using the little plastic cover.
I replaced the screws with these,
http://mortonmachine.thomasnet.com/item/thumb-screws-metric-thumb-screws/metric-stainless-steel-thumb-screws/41195?
to give me easy access.
(drove me nucking futs trying to find them online) :crazy:
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+T, thats smartness ;)