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Gear / Technical Help => Recording Gear => Topic started by: justink on April 18, 2015, 12:11:58 AM

Title: Here's a neat trick. R-44 and iPhone.
Post by: justink on April 18, 2015, 12:11:58 AM

Get the iPhone decibel meter app.

If you're at 100 db, 12 noon on the R-44 is a great starting point. Nice and conservative with room to expand live or in post.

Title: Re: Here's a neat trick. R-44 and iPhone.
Post by: DSatz on April 18, 2015, 07:38:48 PM

The proper setting for a recorder's input controls depends as well on the sensitivity of your microphones. Many professional condenser microphones put out about 10 mV at 1 Pascal (ca. 94 dB SPL), but some very good microphones put out only 1/10 as much (i.e. 20 dB lower), while others (e.g. Neumann M 149) put out nearly 5 times that much (i.e. 14 dB higher).

The factors that you always need to consider are the sensitivity of the microphones, the maximum SPL where the microphones are placed, and the sensitivity (and overload point) of the recorder's inputs.

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