Topic: sp store and jb3 playback

[maddorf]

Hey everyone,
  Wanted to know if anyone has ever been to the Sound Professionals store.  I am going to try to tape my first show on Jan. 15 and still need to buy mics/battery box and who knows what else. Right now, all I've got is the JB3.  So I figured since Mt. Laurel is only an hour and a half that I might make a trip down to South Jersey to learn some stuff, ask questions and buy the goods; maybe even save $ on shipping etc... Has anyone been there? Is it worth the drive?

Also, is there any way to get rid of the terrible hiss and reverb that I hear while listening to the JB3 in my car? I'm connecting with the Beamit FM radio transmitter from Radio Shack. I tried messing with the levels, but I have no idea what I'm doing.  I tried a cassette tape to cd thing also, but that just made it worse (I think b/c it changes it to magnetic sound) so I returned it.  As always, any and all help is greatly appreciated. 
 Happy New Year's.
 ~Mike

[Karl]

I tried messing around with some of those FM transmitter kits to try and play my JB3 back in my car.  They kind of sucked.  But I wasn't buying the most expensive one, either.  Make sure you are using the line-out in the back of the unit, that will have the best output for what you are doing.

[F.O.Bean]

i just use a cassette adapter from jb3>car, works great most of the time, on occassion, after leaving the shows, i plop it in and it sounds all messed up, get it home and its fine

[Cooker]

cassette adapters will typically sound like shit on the reverse side but ok on the forward side. when i had a tape deck and used this method, i would always have to auto-reverse it to get good sound. 

cassette adapters usually sound better on headphone output than line-out, too. line out is too low for cass adapters that are designed for a headphone-level output.