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...
Sounds great! Can't wait to get mine.
Why do you have to format the card more than once?
just to confirm...you were using the built-in mics, correct?
Yes, built-in mics only.
Quote from: lbgspam on September 05, 2006, 08:37:57 PM
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.
Quote from: olyrc on September 06, 2006, 12:13:22 PM
Quote from: lbgspam on September 05, 2006, 08:37:57 PM
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 :)
Yep, pretty much. It is a minor complaint.
Quote from: olyrc on September 06, 2006, 12:12:00 PM
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
Quote from: kgreener on September 06, 2006, 09:57:13 PM
Quote from: olyrc on September 06, 2006, 12:12:00 PM
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.
Quote from: olyrc on September 06, 2006, 10:51:40 PM
Quote from: kgreener on September 06, 2006, 09:57:13 PM
Quote from: olyrc on September 06, 2006, 12:12:00 PM
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
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.