Notes on 1st MT (upgraded firmware) recording experience (and 1st 24 bit).
Scofield 10-12-05 at Stone Church in NH. Ran 4022 > Sonosax > MT. I was about 8 ft from the stage clamped to the ceiling, about 9 ft up. I ran the sax on low gain with the levels at one or two clicks from the lowest setting. The MT was line in (1/4 TRS) and the recording level was about 40%. I was recording to a 6gb apple microdrive at 24/96. The levels were good and only a few points at the very loudest did I get the red indicator lights to come on. I used a usb battery pack just to be sure that I didn't have any battery issues. I was able to start and restart the recording at around 45 mins during applause. I did it again before the encore. The restart process only took a few seconds. I had no hangs or freeze ups. As others have mentioned, the meters become useless after a while. The good news is that the red indicator lights still come on for high levels.
On first listen the recording sounds incredible. 24 bit is definitely the way to go. However, I've already found 3 glitches. One sounds like a skip and the other 2 sound like short static bursts (0.2 seconds or so). I checked them out in goldwave. One of the glitches looks like the diginoise I sometimes see on DAT transfers with the wave sqared off. The other one that sounds like a click does not show high bursts in the wave editor. Could these be related to the microdrive and the sample rate? I'm tempted to grab a 4gb CF card before my next 2 shows which are this friday and saturday. Thoughts
It was a great, great show.