DAT-heads Digest #427

Contents:
  Re: DAT-heads Digest #426 / Semi-brickwalling (acffh)
  Looking for Tickets to WSP Atlanta shows ("Dan Boardman")
  Recording equip. for sale ("Drewboy")
  Re:Stealth-Bust-HD conundrum (Richard)


From: acffh <morst@tds.net>
Subject: Re: DAT-heads Digest #426 / Semi-brickwalling
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 11:13:18 -0600

if your input stage is overloading, there is nothing you can do to fix 
that, except lower the level of signal coming in. Acoustically 
speaking, try moving away from the sound source to where it's not so 
loud.

The AGC and mic limiter settings are probably after the input stage, so 
they will probably not help.  They will remove the "life" from your 
tapes though!  Limiters like that are really for speech only, unless 
you like all audio to be "fixed" using compression/expansion so that 
it's a constant volume level.  (quite an unmusical thing to do, I 
think)

Anyhow, it sounds like the bass rolloffs work, why not just use simple 
attenuators and knock the entire signal down if you don't like the lack 
of bass from the rolloff filters?

-tom



On Mar 20, 2005, at 10:50 AM, Digestifier wrote:

>
> From: "Mark J. O Donnell" <modonn6311@juno.com>
> Subject: Semi-brickwalling
> Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 20:03:26 GMT
>
>
> I had previously asked for advice about a situation that I was 
> encountering in which I was getting a recording which brickwalled at 
> the high end but was otherwise clear--in other words, 90% of the 
> recording sounded clear while 10% at the top was crap. Several 
> digesters kindly offered advice, but short of buying a bass rolloff, 
> nothing that was suggested worked. So the question I wanted to ask 
> advice on is this: in those situations where I suspect there is going 
> to be potential brickwall overage of sound, is it 
> possible/feasible/advisable to use the Auto AGC or Mic Limiter? How 
> much will this affect the end result. Will the results be listenable? 
> Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks
>
>
> Mark J. O Donnell
> modonn6311@juno.com




From: "Dan Boardman" <boardman@bellsouth.net>
Subject: Looking for Tickets to WSP Atlanta shows
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:51:41 -0500

Looking for any sort of tickets for the upcoming Atlanta WSP concerts like 4
or 5 for Friday or Saturday - please email me off list.

Thank you much!!

Dan Boardman = boardman@bellsouth.net




From: "Drewboy" <drewboy@twcny.rr.com>
Subject: Recording equip. for sale
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 14:26:00 -0500

For Sale:
1 Pair Neumann SKM184 Black Microphones with original wooden box &
accessories.
1 Sony PCM M1 DAT Recorder, never a problem.
1 Neumann BS48 i-2 Phantom power supply with 5 pin to mini output cable, 5
pin to stereo mini output cable, and 5 pin to 2 XLR input cable.
$1500.





From: Richard <wehideandseek@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re:Stealth-Bust-HD conundrum
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 08:58:47 -0800 (PST)

>how are you going to talk a security goon into
>letting you leave with your equipment if it already
>has a show on the hard equipment?  Rob

Namaste Y'all!
this is a great topic.

The only time i was busted was after a Beth Orton
show. It was my own fault. Went up to grab a set-list
and a guard saw my suspicious hat [lights were up, i
*thought* the coast was clear]. In no time flat
Chicago's finest were on the scene, the tour manager
was there, and i was trying not to break a sweat.
Miraculously i was able to unload the M-1 and drop the
DAT down my pants and it landed in the top of my boot,
all while encircled by two cops, three guards, and two
tour personnel. 
NO B.S.! 
I gave up a dummy [been doing this forever: taking a
tape that's 3/4 way played through, labeled w/ the
band and date and venue] to the tour manager. 
I walked away scot-free [though w/ a cut mic-cable
when the goon tore my hat off as i tried to "walk
away"] except for a little shaky nerves.

My suggestion is to carry something small [mini-disc
recorder] w/ dummy blank loaded, or actually taking
signal and hand THAT over as the "master". 
Most of these folk will have never seen the newer
lines of HD [though it is just a matter of time] and
may just fall for the disc. 
I know it's one more cable and one more piece of gear
to crotch in...

take care
and
happy taping
richard


BWT: Three **dat only** BnP's
Beth Orton 08.06.02 @ The Vic Theatre, Chicago IL  
MG300 [ortf] > V2 > M1 @ 48khz  fob 60m

Complete w/ "Hey! Stop that guy!" and tearing of cable
;) 

GREENHOUSE PRODUCTIONS
Richard Alun Davis
906 North Beaver St.
Flagstaff, AZ 86001
(928) 774-1992  RAD
(928) 527-4288  fax
wehideandseek@yahoo.com
http://www.greenhouseproductions.net

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military 
defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom. 
- Martin Luther King Jr., "The Trumpet of Conscience", 1967


                
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