Hi all!
Loved the results w/the Jecklin disk - had a ball taping and got MOSTLY a great tape. (Although I must say it's a bit weird to be your own roadie/sound engineer AND be the performer - jeez lugging makeup case, gown and... mic stand?!)
HOWEVER despite being mostly happy with the sound... in one or two places I got distortion, even though there's no clipping per se and the level doesn't go up into the red zone on any playback I've tried. What's going on?
(This isn't me, btw! One of the other singers. This was the only voice that seemed to cause, this also - other voices in the cast are "bigger" than this - although don't go quite as high - and didn't have the same problem)
In any case, here's an example - would be curious what y'all think, and how I can go about correcting it for the next performance which is tomorrow. It seems that since it isn't a "volume" issue, knocking the level back won't help (or will it?) This is unretouched, btw - exactly as it came off the jb3, without even so much as tweaking the gain.
http://home.earthlink.net/~divamum/data/peakclip.wavRig: CMC8s on 7" jecklin disk >Reactive pre>JB3
Location: wide-but-shallow school auditorium; mics sited in emptygallery balcony about 35-40 ft back from performers (no seats - just a walkway - the front of the balcony is actually the BACK of the auditorium). Strings and piano on floor in front of stage; singers on stage. Space relatively live (wood floors, plaster walls), although not echo-y. There was a low overhang where everything was sited. Actually, easier than describing: pix attached (bad pix, but pix!)