hi all
i'm a musician/composer who's very new to nature recording, and i've
run into a distortion issue. i'm using a sony d8 DAT with a straight
line in from my rhode nt4 condenser stereo mic, a dedicated XY
cardioid coincident pair.
i did some recording recently with this setup, just walking around
with cans on, mic in hand. now, when i use this setup and manually
increase the record levels to greatly "magnify" the ambient sound i
get an odd distortion: not clipping (the levels are clearly fine,
between -24 and -12 db and it doesn't *sound* at all like clipping),
but a quick, stuttering momentary dropout. you can find an example
here:
http://www.hadal.org/misc/distortion.zip
it's especially pronounced when using the high sensitivity preamp
setting on the D8. i'm assuming this has something to do with
cranking up the levels so high; i've certainly never had the levels
set so high for music recording, and i've never heard this sound. i
just want to confirm that my gear is not somehow defective....
any ideas?
thanks
hawkeye
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
|