HI, Not sure if any of you are subjected to "No electronics devices of any kind" pronouncements, but one venue I frequent in LA more often then not (because the artist just loves it) but with my new device, if they see ANY device on (cell, PDA, or whatever) they will outright snatch it out of your hands- I know this from experience ;-). That said, even with display settings, unless you start the recorder ahead of time, there are times when you want to check the settings. What I did was use a belt clip case that I had for my Creative Zen (which as a mechanical hard drive went south) and cut-out the back of it where the top portion of the display shows your volume, and punched a hole by the bottom for where the 'red' light shines for recording and standby mode. Still in a very dark theater like the one I'm referring to, any light brings attention when NO ONE else has anything on. I was going to go out and pick up some colored transparency material to mask the brightness and after reading in the thread how pricey it is rummaged around in my drawer and found one of the old 3-d masks for watching films that had blue on one side and red. I didn't want to use electrical tape (like on the red light coming off the top of unit) as I can see some huge advantages for having the unit safely tucked away and using the remote to control the settings (like input volume and splitting in between songs) so I take the blue and tuck it over the infared receiver and stick the red over the display which is seen through a cutout I made in the leather holster for my unit. Not sure if anyone had run into this issue, but in a venue where they're not strict on checking what your bringing it, but extreme on any device that illuminate, this is what I came up with. Last night I 'field tested' it and it really helps. I taped the red portion over the display screen showing the levels and it really keeps the illumination way down. Additionally, by using the dark blue transparency one over the recording light and the infared (both "beam me up scotty" RED") and they were almost invisible. While used black electrical tape on my prior rig for any lights emitted, I wouldn't use it on the R-09HR- I really like the manual splitting feature as well as being able to adjust my levels on the fly with the remote since it's much less obvious to anyone around you what your doing when it's done by remote.
Surf1div1
