I know I need practice, that's for sure. However, my Sacramento NIN show from last week is easily one of the best sounding tapes of this tour, without a doubt. I used the hold feature, it didn't make a difference for autolux as it turned off anyways. I never showed I was taping at all, everything was in my pocket and it was never opened. My first tape ever was a stealth job at the fillmore and it sounds very great. The tape thing over the switches, I thought about it, but didn't do it, I know better now. I used Line-In, via 1/8" to 1/4" TRS connectors. I couldn't watch my levels as security was so close that they were seriously less than 2 inches from me just about the whole show, since the guy was in the crowd almost leaning on me. I just had no idea where to set my levels, since this unit was new to me, I figured setting the levels to just 1/4 the way would be too quiet, guess I was wrong. I have never had any problems whatsoever with my jb3 except for a faulty harddrive that I fixed easily. My NIN show (and openers) from sacramento should be coming out tonight on Dime if you're wondering. (EDIT: Is up now.)
I would have checked after one of the sets if it clipped by playing it back, but this thing has a mind of it's own and wouldn't let me play the file. It does now, but didn't when it actually mattered.
I'm as bummed out as everyone else is. I didn't want to go through all that work to just get a ton of clipping.