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Title: Beginner
Post by: discopanic1 on July 24, 2004, 06:12:03 PM

How's it goin?  I am a beginner at this taping thing, well owning my own rig part of it.  I have a set of attenuetters connected to the line in on the SD mixpre.  I aren't real sure what those are used for.  I am seaming to have I guess alot of "head" on my tapes.  I guess that is what it's called.  I can hear a noise in the tapes.  Any tips appreciative.
Thanks,
Jesse

Mk4 -> cmc6 -> SD Mixpre -> M1

Title: Re: Beginner
Post by: zhianosatch on July 24, 2004, 07:05:32 PM

man... do some reading on your gear.

Title: Re: Beginner
Post by: radioboy1977 on July 24, 2004, 07:11:43 PM

 ::)

Title: Re: Beginner
Post by: discopanic1 on July 28, 2004, 07:45:02 PM

I've started to read up on my rig.  I've come to find out I'm setting up my mics wrong, but I'm not sure this is the reason for the distorted sounding echoeing tapes I put out.  I guess only time and practice will help the solution.  Tips if any.....

Title: Re: Beginner
Post by: zhianosatch on July 28, 2004, 07:49:19 PM

Quote from: discopanic1 on July 28, 2004, 07:45:02 PM

I've started to read up on my rig.  I've come to find out I'm setting up my mics wrong, but I'm not sure this is the reason for the distorted sounding echoeing tapes I put out.  I guess only time and practice will help the solution.  Tips if any.....

read more! ;D

Title: Re: Beginner
Post by: aberg on July 28, 2004, 09:01:44 PM

I don't get it.... why do you keep telling him to read?

Title: Re: Beginner
Post by: Brian on July 29, 2004, 04:36:01 PM

why would you want attenuaters for this setup?  that's probably what's causeing the noise ..... subpar attenuaters.

that's a sweet newbie rig!  but yeah set it up at home without the attenuaters and see what happens. 

Title: Re: Beginner
Post by: dnsacks on July 29, 2004, 04:40:24 PM

A few specific pointers, a) you should be running the cmc6's into the microphone inputs (not line inputs) of the mixpre -- the mixpre should have plenty of headroom to take the cmc6's signal and the attenuators, which drop the "power" of the mic's signal should be TOTALLY unnecessary.  Taking these steps should help clean up your sound considerably.  Of course, your mixpre should be feeding your m1 through its LINE (not microphone) input, and you should set the gain from the mixpre so you're getting good levels with the m1's volume knob set at around 7-8 (out of 10, with 10 being full gain)

Next, you should probably start experimenting with microphone configuration -- when I ran mk4s, I had great luck using the ortf configuration -- definitely a good place to start, configuration-wise.  Finally, look into mic placement (i.e. where to set up to get the best sound) -- once you've got your system set up properly, this is the single most important factor in getting a setup to run properly