Topic: Need your comments on my recording (samples inside)

[fandelive]

Hello,

I ask myself a few questions about a show I taped back in 2006 and I'm not quite happy with the results.

Here's the lineage :

Source : SP-BMC-12 > SP-SPSB-6524 (bass roll-off filter set at 888Hz) > Sony MZ-R700PC (line-in). Binaural recording/mics clipped to hat.
Conversion : Sony MDS-JE480 (line-out) > Creative SoundBlaster Live! 5.1 (line-in) > Adobe Audition 1.5 > CD Wave > Encoded by FLAC v1.1.2a with FLAC Frontend v1.7.1.
Location : 4th row, right stack (FOB).

Here are two samples that cover both soft acoustic parts and louder parts :

http://cmlien.free.fr/cd0202.flac
http://cmlien.free.fr/cd0204.flac


First, you can hear some compression artefacts (or something that sounds the same...), mostly on louder parts.
I wonder if it comes from the Minidisc compression (show was recorded in SP mode, so the best possible quality) or from the mics that reached their limits and couldn't clearly define the sound (too much "sound information" were melted...).

The tape sounds metallic to me (drums, but also guitars...). Has it to do with my bass roll-off filter set at 888Hz during recording?

Also, the bass drum sounds either distorted or compressed.
I first thought it was because my battery box ran out of power (weak battery - the bass drum shouldn't have sounded so much present on the recording with the roll-off filter set at 888Hz, right?).
But I think more now it has to do with the SPL that was over the limit the mics could handle.
The curious thing is that the other instruments or vocals don't appear to be distorded at all (only the drums) and that the spectral view doesn't show the sound to be overloaded...

So I don't think those troubles have to do with my recording levels or my taping spot which was great.

Please, listen to my samples and tell me what you think. I'd like to improve the sound quality of my tapes
Thank you.

[fandelive]

*Bump* 

[Patrick]

I haven't downloaded the samples (I am browsing on my phone) but a HPF set at 888hz  is gong to certainly make a tape sound "metallic."  Use the roll off to tame a little excessive bass or to kill wind/room rumble, instead of cutting out all of the bass and a good part of the mid-range frequencies