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Gear / Technical Help => Recording Gear => Topic started by: nxb on February 04, 2006, 09:18:01 AM
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Hi,
I have just recorded 3 shows on the NME Awards tour and all recordings are suffering from distortion of the recording to one degree or another.
I really wanted a good recording of these shows so went out and bought the R1 specifically for the tour to get the best possible recording but it didn't work out.
I was using the R1 with SMC-4 / BMC-6 mics together with a Giant Squid Battery Box connected to the Line-in input.
First night I used the SMC-4 mics which gave distortion so I changed to the BMC-6 mics for the second night.
This gave a slight reduction in the distortion but it is still noticeable on the recording.
The Battery Box does not have Bass Roll-Off
I tried using the Limiter menu setting ON and OFF but this made no difference
I tried using the effects EQ with the settings 32Hz -6dB 64Hz -6dB 125Hz -3dB but this made little difference
Any suggestions to help me get good recordings from the R1?
Do I need to crank up the EQ to -9 say and extend the frequency range it is applied to?
Have I got one of the menu settings wrong?
Will a Bettery Box with Bass Roll-off sort this out?
Will a preamp instead of a Battery Box work better?
Any recommendations for model, technique etc
Mike
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assuming this is a bass heavy show it is the mics. My old set of SP mics used to distort all the time when I was too close to the stacks
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I've used the BMC-6 mics on heavier Bass shows than this with a MZ-R70 mini disc recorder and they handled it well enough so I am not convinced that it is the mics, especially as I used two different sets over the three nights...
I was by the sound desk maybe 20m back from the front of the stage so I don't think that I was too close either