deadwing

Hi..and many thanks for your reply. No, we don't have Radio Shack here in the UK-we used to have chain called Tandy who either were their UK arm or they sold a lot of Radio Shack product, but i don't think they are around any more (Their website directs you to Amazon.co.uk) I assume the Rado Shack item you refer to is this one? http://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?cata...ct%5Fid=42-2559 I further assume that this sits in between the mic and the recorder and 'cuts out' the noise which was giving me the problems last night, right? We have a similar type of store to Radio Shack here called Maplins http://www.maplin.co.uk I pretty much guessed i'd have to use the manual recording setting- not too much of a problem it's just a shame it's buried under so many button presses and you have to re-set it each time you stop the player....oh well, i'll just put my fingers on a diet!! Right off to check those recordings you mentioned...

Hi folks -first post on here. I'm in the UK, and I've just bought my first MD -a Sony MZ-NH1-it's main-well only-use will be to record live music, and yes, some of it will have to be in 'stealth' mode . I'm by no means a 'technophobe' and am pretty good at following instructions, but this is all brand new to me, so please excuse anything I say which sounds dumb or blindingly obvious! OK, I've mentioned the MD recorder-now onto the mic. On the basis of some recommendations from people i know, I picked up this microphone http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...item=5764315179 Using it on basic voice recording gives excellent results, as it does if record music from my hi fi speakers, but tonight the set up got it's first 'live test'. First off, I never expected to make a 'perfect' recording of the show i went to tonight-tonight was purely for 'experimentation only! Right, the settings on the recorder. I used 'Sens Low' for the mic setting and on the MIC AGC setting i used 'Loud Music' . Now I know that the recorder does have a manual record setting, but a combination of my fat fingers, my 'nwness' to the controls and menus and the fact that I was using 'stealth mode' recording meant changing 'on the fly' was not really on the cards tonight. The venue was a small bar (and I mean small-even in British pub terms!), the band were an Eagles tribute band, and weren't particularly loud, but their sound filled the place and was quite a good to the ear. First part of the set was a disaster as the mic had pushed out of the socket, so, on checking during the break, all I got was 30 minutes of silence. So I removed the remote unit to stop this and tried again-this time, I did get a recording. There is a short, 30 second mp3 of a section of the recording here (I recorded in PCM format) http://homepage.ntlworld.com/barneystorm/clip1.mp3 Not to put it too finely-it’s a mess!! Not entirely unexpected, but I do need to sort out some issues-hopefully with your help. The first thing that jumps out at me is..VOLUME..or too much of it-but what I need to know is does it go further than that? The majority of the distortion seems to be on the bass and percussive beats, so other than whacking the recording way down, what else do I need to do? So, let me leave it here for now, feel free to shake your head, tut loudly and mutter ‘b***dy newbie’, but I await your constructive advice to make me a better person!