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Seeking help to improve recording concerts with iRiver H320 (Gain control)

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_tunic_:
Hi,

here's an update. Your tips made a big improvement already petur, thanks again! The opening act turned out better than the main act, but i guess that's mainly due to the sound quality in the hall. I've added a screenhot again (from the opener), looks just perfect to me. Will have to use the click removal feature of audacity to remove some plops. Had the mics hang over the balcony, and I moved them around a bit during the recording. That's another lesson learned.

cheers,
_tunic_

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petur:
for that little amount of peaks I usually zoom in on them and do a custom hardlimiter on them to get them below the rest of the recording, then you can up the overall gain.

Are your mics omnis or cardoids (directional). I'd look for some way to mount them and not hang them somewhere.

I've made myself a mini micstand made out of 30cm of thick (5mm^2 or more) electrical wire. The wire is so thick it keeps the position you bend it in, so I can form it to point to anything. On one side I stripped the insulation and grouped the wires so that I can clip my (cardoid) mics on them and point them in a nice 90 degree angle.

As I said, mic placement is important ;)

redwood:
_tunic_  -

You recorded Dexter Romweber of the Flat Duo Jets? Very cool. How was the show?

_tunic_:

--- Quote from: redwood on May 07, 2007, 09:14:05 AM ---_tunic_  -

You recorded Dexter Romweber of the Flat Duo Jets? Very cool. How was the show?

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Yeah I did, he's been opening for Cat Power on her tour. If I would not have been such a big Cat Power fan I would have said that I liked Dexter way better. It's just him on guitar/vocals and his sister Sarah on drums, well at least that's how he introduced her. I had never heard of him, but I'm glad I decided to tape him. It's like the parents of the White Stripes playing old 1950's Rock'nRoll jukebox tunes. Liked it a lot, even though it's not really my style of music. And my recording from Eindhoven sounds great.

Thanks again petur for all the help, I've been having so much fun this week! I'm now off to the last one  :'(
My mics are cardoids I think, perhaps omnis would have been a better choice as I like to hang them over the balcony so I don't have them stuck on my body. But they have a very nice sound quality.

The recordings of Low will be up on Archive.org some time later this week if I have enough time ( http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=collection%3ALowMusic )

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