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Re: level setting

Subject: Re: level setting
From: grantfinlay <>
Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 07:55:34 +1200
with using the portable radio i mentioned,  all you have to do is to
point it at the sky rather then at each microphone.
simple solution!

GF

On 8/04/2005, at 3:45 AM, Rich Peet wrote:
> I can not point the mic at the sky, can not use a small radio as the
> volume changes as it is turned, and can not carry studio equipment
> into the field. I already carry 25 lbs into the field for a 3 hour
> record capability at 24/96 or 10 lbs for 16 bit atrac full day
> capability. Right now I am just setting levels based on a hold of the
> minimum valley gain and maybe that is good enough with a good quantity
> of material
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> I am starting to think that accurate level settings are not done in
> the music industry except by ear.
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> "Microphones are not ears,
> Loudspeakers are not birds,
> A listening room is not nature."
> Klas Strandberg
> Yahoo! Groups Links
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Grant Finlay
Hm:++64 9 5256465
Mb: ++64 21 943997
http://www.ultrasound.orcon.net.nz



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