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Gear / Technical Help => Recording Gear => Topic started by: olyrc on September 05, 2006, 07:22:56 PM
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I am impressed with the performance.
Just tried this for the first time last Friday night. I was dead-f%$#ing center in the front row of the venue's balcony. R-09 with electrical tape over the REC & Peak lights, inside an Oakley sunglasses bag, inside the breast pocket of my North Face jacket (inside of the jacket is mesh), jacket folded inside-out and set on my knee for the entire show. This choice of materials was great because I got no noise from shifting or crinkling fabric. (FYI, the room was nowhere near pitch black and I could still see the screen a little bit during the show through all the layers - not enough to monitor levels, but enough to probably get busted if they'd been looking)
I had the R-09 set on low-sens with the levels at 29 (out of 30). Lithium batteries, 4gb transcend, 24/48. Rolled in with no problems, hit the stall to start the recorder, back to my seat, jacket on my knee & the show started 5 minutes later. This was a spoken word/music variety type show with a number of different artists reading and performing so I got a good idea of changes to make next time. The PA was never up too loud, so the level setting at 29 wasn't really enough and I had to boost the levels in post. Not bad, but next time I'm thinking hi-sens and a level of maybe 15 for a similar room.
Anyway, as I said, I'm sufficiently impressed. Now if I could just format the 4gb card without hooking up to the desktop...
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Sounds great! Can't wait to get mine.
Why do you have to format the card more than once?
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just to confirm...you were using the built-in mics, correct?
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Yes, built-in mics only.
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Sounds great! Can't wait to get mine.
Why do you have to format the card more than once?
I format the card every few shows just for shits & giggles to clean off the bits & bytes. Started doing it a long while ago with the JB3 and have just kept doing it.
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Sounds great! Can't wait to get mine.
Why do you have to format the card more than once?
I format the card every few shows just for shits & giggles to clean off the bits & bytes. Started doing it a long while ago with the JB3 and have just kept doing it.
Lol, that's funny. Then your complaint is really your own making :)
No need to format it every show :)
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Yep, pretty much. It is a minor complaint.
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Yes, built-in mics only.
cool, thanks. reason i asked is i downloaded a bruce hornsby show recorded with the internal mics and was really surprised at how decent it sounded. not perfect, but pretty damn good for such a small device.
http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=29233
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Yes, built-in mics only.
cool, thanks. reason i asked is i downloaded a bruce hornsby show recorded with the internal mics and was really surprised at how decent it sounded. not perfect, but pretty damn good for such a small device.
http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=29233
Yeah, I've got Hornsby tix for his Seattle show next month, but I'll be running the DPAs for that one. Standalone sounds good, but I will always use the externals if given the choice.
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Yes, built-in mics only.
cool, thanks. reason i asked is i downloaded a bruce hornsby show recorded with the internal mics and was really surprised at how decent it sounded. not perfect, but pretty damn good for such a small device.
http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=29233
Yeah, I've got Hornsby tix for his Seattle show next month, but I'll be running the DPAs for that one. Standalone sounds good, but I will always use the externals if given the choice.
absolutely, externals the only way to go fer sure.
good luck Ryan! +t
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olyrc wrote: "Not bad, but next time I'm thinking hi-sens and a level of maybe 15 for a similar room."
When I set my R-09 to high gain the resulting background noise (hiss) is annoying. You can minimize it with the lowered input level, but probably not eliminate it.