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You're putting me on, right? They look like drop earings! OK, just joking. They would be way cool with the RH1 as they are so small. I like small as it packs so much easier. The kit at SP is the whole smash short of the power supply. I would guess getting the one for highest sound pressuire would be good as it would work just fine with low sound pressure, too. Have you used these long? Do you have a sample you think shows them to their best. I would think a string quartet, small jazz group with a vocalist would be good for the smaller end of the scale. Leonard Skynard would do for the loud end, I guess. Help me out here. ;o) Whatever else you can help with for advice would be great. Thanks. Thanks, I will do a search and see what is written about them.

Thanks! The AT3031 (cardioid) comes in at US$300 and up for the pair. Not bad. Let me see what I can find for folks who are using them and their experience. Have you used them or are you familiar with them??

I recorded two and one-half hours on the internal battery, no problem. However, I now use a Macally IP-A481 LiIon battery pack which can theoretically power recording some 20 Hi-MD's. I always use it as it gives me huge peace of mind. The Macally charges from your USB port or from the RH1 charger. I normally have the Macally plugged into the charger and then plug the RH1 into it. On a recording session, I plug the RH1 into the Macally so that the RH1 knows the Macally is there. The other way 'round does not always work. There is a double AA cell charger available for ~US$16 - 20 here and there. I do not plan to be so far away from a USB port that I would want something like this. The RH1 is very sweet.

I have read single-point gives greater ambience. Two mics are OK, too. I can go either way. As I already have a single-point, I suppose a great pair of Neumanns would be good, but way out of my price range. I think the cheapest pair is ~$900. I suppose once I have the correct angle on two mics it is just placement as it is with single-point. Have I missed something enormous??

Gurus, geniuses, supergeeks, wizards, sound freaks and the rest of you, I am thinking about getting a new mic or mics to use with my sweet li'l RH1. What is out there in the all-round category for stereo recording? Let's say in the $300-$500 range. Needs to be easily portable but not stealth. I have mics for that. Any experience in this will help me a lot. I will not be buying these right away, but in the not too distant future. Thanks, all!

This is a little off-topic, but I do not think that SONY or anyone else has an "anti-Mac" policy. The truth is that Mac is a tiny section of the user base, < 5% and while its user base is growing, its market share is shrinking or barely staying the same. So why spend the time and effort for so few users? It is pretty simple. I would go with the RH1 which is Mac compatible and a damned fine machine. YMMV

Bob- Anyone with a DS-21 deserves an immediate reply. OK, I have a good recording of FMR at the Crystal Ballroom in Portland on 2007-01-06 on etree for download via torrent. I have two CD's I just got of Michael last Friday and I willl make torrents of if he allows it. Otherwise it is snail-mail trades with a select few. I am going to Church about the middle of February to get some sounds, too. FMR knocks me out and MH was just great last Friday. I just found out about him and think he is pretty damned good. Cheers et allez-y avec la DS-21, vite, vite, vite!!

Folks- last track of the second set, Michael is winding it up. The usual setup: SONY ECM-MS957 > SONY MZ-RH1 > SS on PC > WAV > CD WAV Editor to insert tracks into the WAV file > foobar2000 to convert the WAV tracks into FLAC lvl 6 and add ReplayGain. foobar2000 also to burn CD's and to create this LAME MP3 V2. Check it out. Tell me how I could do it better if you have suggestions. The mic was about 3' from the performer, he was in the corner of this place and most of the audience spread off to the left with just a few on the right. Normal bar furniture and acoustics. 1_8_Michael_Hurley_2007_01_26_Voodoo_Room_set_208.mp3

I use the RH1 for recording live gigs. I use a SONY ECM-MS957 mic, which is a bit pricy. There are many good, less expensive stereo mics available and folks here can help you. For recording live gigs the RH1 is hard to beat. It is small, accurate and can upload digitally to the PC, which means that there will be no sound degradation in the upload. Once on the PC it can be converted to FLAC, MP3 or left as a WAV file. The sounds is the same as on a CD; this is the important part. As good as a CD. The only limiting factor is the mic and its location. Give up those mochas for a while, get your squeeze to contribute a bit as he will be getting the benefit and get the damned thing. You won't regret it. Cheers

50Hz is a pedal note on an organ. It can shake the whole building. That is pretty low and rapidly approaching sub-sonic. Hearing deteriorates rapidly, especially if you favor rock "concerts." I doubt many in their late 20's can hear anything like that range. 20 - 50 Hz is pretty much sub-sonic and above 16.5 KHz does not exist on FM because of the stereo multiplex channel at ~ 19 KHz, I think and the space alloted below it for protection and other reasons. I think that 20 - 20KHz is the best and not common. YMMV

If you think that is a nuisance, try owning a non-functioning RH1 that you could have returned but did not.

Thanks for the help. Yeah, "unless someone kicks the tripod." They are a special breed with size 14 feet who lurch around live music more than any other place. ;o)

I was at the 90 degree angle. Cement floors and wooden walls do not help any. No warm sound there at all. I an tweak it a bit but I do not like doing that. Oh, well, this is not my big deal with Telarc or MoFi so I guess I can tweak it a bit. 20 to 20KHz fades pretty rapidly to a narrower range. I cannot hear the high-pitched sounds I once did. Eddie rules! I understand he has put on a few kilos since he stopped spinning the cranks. He is still training on saucisson and biere. Allez-y Eddie!

Folks, geeks, gurus and nerds - I have a SONY ECM-MS957 which works alright but I get sound from behind it too much. Is it OK to place a sheet of sound absorbent material behind the mic to make sure all I pick up if from the front? Seems like a good idea to me, but I know nothing. Lots of ideas seem good to me. I searched the forum for this and found nothing but I suspect that someone out there knows about this or has tried it. Recorded a bar band last night and may upload the to etree, with their permission. Will record another bar band tonight and possibly upload that one, too. So far the sound has been thin because of overly bright rooms. This one may have better acoustics tonight. Eddy Merxx used to say if you want to get good at riding a bicycle, ride a bicycle a lot. Eddie got good, real good. Practice, iterations make the difference. I have hope of getting the hang of this fun geek hobby.

I have the same mic. I like minimal mics for ambiance over multiple single mics on the individual instruments. If you want to, say, accentuate the guitar the only way you are going to be able to do it is to accentuate that sonic band with an equalizer. Other than that, get closest to the guitar's speakers. I do not know of any way around this. If you have the option of arranging the group yourself I would suggest you put the percussion in the middle. Bass is non-directional and in the middle both channels will be carrying the bass load. Other than that, array the instruments the way they sound best. This will take some time the first few times but then you will get the hang of it and hang out your shingle as a pro recording engineer. Well, maybe not, but you will get some good sessions. I just recorded a session of a small local group tonight on a ECM-MS957 and an RH1. Lots of flat wooden surfaces and a cement floor so it is way too bright. I am not sure how I will clean that up. One thing will be to pump the bass and lower mids some and attenuate from there on up until it sounds better. This is fun. Cheers!

What I would suggest is to keep a log of each disc in a spreadsheet. That way you can sort on columns, run searches and so on. Just label the backups CD's as 1, 2, 3 . . . The spreadsheet would be the key and repository of all information. Does that help?

I am having a problem understanding what it is you are trying to say. Could you re-explain it for all of us?? Thanks.

True, the other one runs on AA batteries. But as you are going to be near a computer to upload your recordings, you will be able to charge the Macally there. It also charges just fine, though slowly, through the RH1 charger. The big plus is the long battery life. It adds a factor of 8X to 10X to your battery life.

My take is that for US$5 or US$10 more you can get the Macally IP-A481 which is LIion, charges on the USB port or from the RH1 charger, can piggyback to the RH1 and is quite small. It carries ~10 times to juice as the built-in RH1 LIion battery. The Dutch tests showed 20 Hi-MD records before the battery was discharged. I went with the Macally for the battery type, method of recharging and how damned cool it looks with the RH1. It comes in black. Yo, baby!! http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=Macall...e&scoring=p

If you have a way to upload the MD's digitally, like with an MZ-RH1 or one of the older MD decks you will get digital copies. Recording into the PC is an analog(ue) transfer and OK. Once on the PC you can convert the files to WAV and insert the track marks with CD WAV Editor. It is shareware and quite cheap at US$15. I got pretty good with it after a couple of uses. It has a 31 day trial period. Audacity is OK, but I do not think it is as slick or easy as this puppy. I am not even sure it can put in track marks with a single keystroke. YMMV

RBR - Greetings and welcome to the board. I use the MD as intermediary steps only. I upload to the PC and catalog(ue) them there. A standard music traders system is AAYYYYMMDDTTLLLLL AA is an abbreviated form of the artist or group name; can be more than 2 letters YYYY - four digit year MM - two digit month DD - two digit day TT - two digit track number LL... - label as long as it takes. I also like to use foobar2000 to manage the tags for FLAC and MP3 files and also to play them. It is free and can be easily downloaded. Use Google to find it. There are a myriad of schemes. This one is at least a starting point. Have some Vegemite for me, mate! ;o)

A440, et al, I checked the pages suggested on the Internet and got an idea of what to expect and prices. Then I walked around downtown (ha!) Astoria finding an ancient chrome one with an ancient ElectroVoice mic for $300, a ragged used one in a ragged music store for ~$20, a combo stand and boom arm in RadioShack for $45 and next door in the "best music store in town" a good tripod stand with boom for $30. Bought it. I am ready now and have shortened my list of excuses for a bad recording by one. Thanks for the pointers and help. It made it possible to scoop up a buy here and be sure it was a buy.

NOW IT WORKS!!! OK, got a torrent uploaded to etree. I have checked the D/L and it works. A few other folks are D/L'ing right now. The equipment was up to the task but the audio is not all that good due to me not having a mic stand to get the mic higher and above the crowd noise, and there was plenty of that. Let me know what you think and any hints you might have for making it a better recording. Thanks, all, for your help right from the start. I would still be fumbling around and lost without the help of A440 and other knowledgeable and kind folks on this board. Technical quality of the first show, FMR, is best and it deteriorates from there due to crowd noise, etc. Links to the shows: First is Freak Mountain Ramblers, then Michael Hurley and finally Holy Modal Rounders: http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=503436 http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=503424 http://bt.etree.org/details.php?id=503425 Ciao4now cool.gif

Perfect A - Were it not that other folks might learn from our dialog, it would be easier to write you directly. ;o) Thanks, again, for the leg up.