Good afternoon all,
Due to being unusually busy over the week-end I haven't as yet done any fur=
ther testing. It would appear however, from recent posts from both Vicky an=
d Raimund that there is very little to do. Clearly my memory didn't fail me=
re LOW SENSE 10 being the quietest pre setting. All I therefore need to do=
, is to use this setting and gradually increase gain on the iRig, while rec=
ording in as quiet a situation as possible. The major problem with this is =
obvious; there are no marks on the very small thumb wheel of the iRig gain =
control, so it's going to be completely unscientific. I don't want to take =
the gain to maximum because that would be far beyond what I would use in a =
natural situation.
It might be worth going back to the beginning here, and stating the origina=
l purpose of all of this. That was to be able to use a quiet, good quality,=
mono mic with my LS-10. The iRig supplies 48v phantom power and allows th=
is to happen. My belief, which is now confirmed, was that the LOW SENSE 10 =
setting was the best to use in terms of quietness of internal noise. Theref=
ore all that was required was a small pre that would boost gain sufficientl=
y to be able to use this setting in all situations. It is my belief already=
that the iRig will do what I want it to do (it has far more gain than requ=
ired), but I still intend to do the test I mention above, and will post it =
to the files section as soon as completed.
I'm very grateful to Vicky and Raimund for contributing their confirmations=
here.
Cheers
Max
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e:
>
> > I'm always interested when practice doesn't follow theory because
> > theory should follow reality. Have you got a recording of "soft calls"
> > with different settings so I can hear what's happening? Don't tell me
> > and see if I can hear the difference. :-)
>
> David,
>
> I think that this observation still meets theory. We discussed this issue=
here many times (for instance at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/natur=
erecordists/message/38171).
>
> To summarize it, the SENSE HIGH, LEVEL 2 setting will first attenuate the=
incoming signal and then amplify it again by the same amount, which is cou=
rse nonsense (the intermediate very low signal level in the signal chain wi=
ll then degrade the noise performance).
>
> The SENSE LOW, LEVEL 10 setting on the other hand will just bypass this u=
seless additional attenuation and subsequent amplification.
>
> Regards,
> Raimund
>
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