Hello everyone, I've only been actively taping since may 2005 but i've gotten a good amount of shows under my belt and have never messed anything up (knock on wood), that said, I was a bit dissapointed when my first soundboard patch from last night was completely ruined. Let me explain in as much detail as I can.
I met the soundguy and we chatted for a bit, he then gave me a 1/8" rca stereo cable with wich to plug into my Nomad Jukebox 3. I saw him plug the two other ends of the cable in and he pushed quite hard, so i'm pretty sure the cables were in all the way. Oh, my nomad jukebox 3 was plugged in to an outlet directly behind the SBD.
When the first band began to soundcheck I noticed that my levels were extremely high, while those on his board were only average to high, but i thought this was probably due to the difference in recording mediums, so I recorded at -5 db. Things seemed to be ok from then on as the levels fluctuated with what I was hearing.
Ok, now hear comes the problem.
When I got home and listened to each of the 4 bands I recorded almost all that was audible was a loud buzzing. The kind of sound a guitar amp makes when its volume is cranked up and you unplug your guitar from it and the end of the chord touches something metal or electronic. But this sound went on during all of the recordings save the first 25 seconds of the very first band to play, woo hoo!
A friend of mine that is familiar with using the jb3 for sbd and whatnot asked me if there were a lot of wires coming out of the back of the sbd, and if so were they touching the wires connected to my jb3. The answer is yes. So, could the problem be as simple as bad shielded wires interfering with my recording?
Maybe bad sbd outputs, or a bad cable on his part, I dunno.
Just as a point of reference too - the stereo rca cables he showed me were male do I need to use female instead? I'm not sure.
Well, I think that about wraps most of it up, hopefully someone out there can give me some advice. I'm going back on Thursday to try again, this time i'll have my own cable (I had femalie xlr cables but he didnt want to use them) and i'll keep my wires way away from his.
Thanks