Topic: oops??

[HoldenOversoul]

hello all.. have a question about a gift i recieved.  the guitarist in my band's father bought us the sony ECM-DS70P (teeny little fucker), thinking we could use it to record our shows.  i'm running it directly into a sony net md walkman.  we used it last weekend, in a medium-sized club, mounted about eight feet from the ground and about twenty-five feet from the stage/mains.  the recording is pretty  bad - lots of distortion on the guitar and vocals, but you can still hear what's going on.

i guess my question is - is there any way that this mic can work better?  anyone with experience with this thing?  i'd hate to think someone wasted $75 on a useless mic.  we'll be trying it out this saturday, in a different venue.  short of turning the line in volume down, and moving the mic furthur from the stage, i don't know what else to do to try to fix this problem.

thanks for any help.
jason
markhamhill@yahoo.com

[F.O.Bean]

well, for what ya got, go line in , and like you saidf, move back a lil to prevent the mic from overloading itself

try it out, you may get decent results, but for a better image, get a second mic

OR, just run a 2 track feed from your soundboard directly into the line in of the md

[Humbug]

is there any way that this mic can work better? 

Never used one, so I'm guessing, but thats a non powered mic, and you're almost certainly running mic-in into the minidisc. This will produce too loud a signal, which is why you are overloading it.

You could possibly add a battery box in between the mic and MD, and go line-in, although this will be as much as you paid for the mic itself. Or alternately trade it in for something like an ECM717? This mic is powered and you can run line-in.