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Title: best techniques/gear for FM recordings?
Post by: therodge on January 06, 2005, 01:40:54 AM

Hey fellas,

I have a JB3 and was thinking about recording this years Merlefest FM radio broadcasts. Anyone know of a good FM tuner for a home theater reciever or portable radio that picks up well and has some nice outputs?  Thanks in advance!

Title: Re: best techniques/gear for FM recordings?
Post by: Humbug on January 06, 2005, 05:47:04 AM

I run the following:

Enormous roof mounted FM aerial > Sony ST-SE500 FM radio>Cyrus II Amp>RCA>NomadJB3

That any help?

Basically, any decent FM radio will do the business, so long as you have a strong signal (I didn't, and invested in the aerial).

Title: Re: best techniques/gear for FM recordings?
Post by: sml42 on January 06, 2005, 06:04:31 AM

Loft-mounted omni FM antenna > Denon TU-215RD tuner > JB3. The output from the  Denon is hot enough I don't need to feed through my hifi preamp, although I generally do bump the gain by a few dB at the JB3. Yes, I could use the hifi preamp to provide gain, but I take the opinion that the fewer things in the signal path, the better. (hifi preamp is an Arcam 9C)

best regards,
stephen

Title: Re: best techniques/gear for FM recordings?
Post by: thierryhenry on January 06, 2005, 07:03:55 AM

+T Steven.

Title: Re: best techniques/gear for FM recordings?
Post by: therodge on January 06, 2005, 10:59:00 AM

anyone ever use the JB3 FM Wired Remote and record directly from it?  Good signal? (http://images.americas.creative.com/images/products/headers/prod115_hdr_1_1_61.jpg)

Title: Re: best techniques/gear for FM recordings?
Post by: aberg on January 06, 2005, 01:21:00 PM

My guess is that the signal wouldn't be as good as those roof mounted giant antennas