tiburns Posted May 22, 2007 Report Share Posted May 22, 2007 I just got some panansonic mics and connected one of them to a cable. I then connected it to my Ifp 890 iriver and tried to record. It is set to ext mic and record level of 55. I guess I expected more from these little mics. After hearing so many say that they use them to record live shows. I wonder how. My mic does not seem to have that much input. Am I expecting too much.. I use my TV to test with. It is only about 8 feet from me. Again I expected more. How much of a benefit will I get if I was to add the 9volt battery pack?.I must say that the quality is very good. Just the volume seens very low. I get much more from the internal mic on the ifp 890.I was hoping to use two of these in a school news show. I wanted to put them in a piece of wood that has their logo on it. It would set about 3ft from them. Tim Burns Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boojum Posted May 23, 2007 Report Share Posted May 23, 2007 I just got some panansonic mics and connected one of them to a cable. I then connected it to my Ifp 890 iriver and tried to record. It is set to ext mic and record level of 55. I guess I expected more from these little mics. After hearing so many say that they use them to record live shows. I wonder how. My mic does not seem to have that much input. Am I expecting too much.. I use my TV to test with. It is only about 8 feet from me. Again I expected more. How much of a benefit will I get if I was to add the 9volt battery pack?.I must say that the quality is very good. Just the volume seens very low. I get much more from the internal mic on the ifp 890.I was hoping to use two of these in a school news show. I wanted to put them in a piece of wood that has their logo on it. It would set about 3ft from them. Tim BurnsTim -A battery pack will allow you to record at higher levels without the mic breaking up by supplying a higher voltage than you would get at mic-in. You must use line-in for this option. A pre-amp will supply the higher voltage, bias or phantom depending, and raise the input level higher.That other folks got good results recording live shows with the mics could only mean they were right in front of the speakers. You may be comparing apples and oranges. Were you recording acoustic?? Raise the volume on the input as high as you can without having it overload. It make take a bit of testing to get it right. It changes from venue to venue depending on the sound level of what you are recording.Keep coming back. There is plenty of help here but I have been unable to replay for some days because of something failing at the board end. This is the first time in days I have been able to reply.Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiburns Posted May 23, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 23, 2007 (edited) Tim -A battery pack will allow you to record at higher levels without the mic breaking up by supplying a higher voltage than you would get at mic-in. You must use line-in for this option. A pre-amp will supply the higher voltage, bias or phantom depending, and raise the input level higher.That other folks got good results recording live shows with the mics could only mean they were right in front of the speakers. You may be comparing apples and oranges. Were you recording acoustic?? Raise the volume on the input as high as you can without having it overload. It make take a bit of testing to get it right. It changes from venue to venue depending on the sound level of what you are recording.Keep coming back. There is plenty of help here but I have been unable to replay for some days because of something failing at the board end. This is the first time in days I have been able to reply.Cheers Thanks I now know what is going on. I really thank I was expecting more than what was available from what I was intending to do.. I read the forum almost everyday. It really has great information. Edited May 23, 2007 by Tiburns Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A440 Posted May 23, 2007 Report Share Posted May 23, 2007 (edited) To check your mics' output, record them with your computer. Download Audacity,http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/windowsInstall it, open it, make sure the mic jack is the input, plug in your mic and push the record button. Raise the record level (next to the little picture of the mic) and you should be able to get a nice thick waveform. Are you sure you have the input set correctly on the Iriver? There's probably a choice between external mic, line-in and internal mic. If you're trying to record the small signal of an external mic as a line-in source, you're not going to get much. There's a very nice Iriver board that could help you solve your problem. http://www.misticriver.net/forums.php Edited May 24, 2007 by A440 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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