Need a battery box?

[nathantw666]

I'm going to a rock concert and I want to use my MZ-RH1 to record it. Since I've never used the unit for recording, especially loud music, do you think it would be worthwhile getting/making a battery box? My seats are up in the nose bleeds in the upper back rows, basically as far away from the stage as you can get. I'll be using the Soundprofessional in ear mics. Any suggestions or help?

Thank you!

Nathan

[A440]

Sending those mics directly through mic-in at a rock concert will give you a bunch of distortion, no matter how bad your seats are.

You are going to need something to prevent the bass from distorting the recording. Your choice is mic-->battery box-->line-in or mic-->attenuator (Radio Shack Headphone Volume Control)-->Mic-in. The battery box is cleaner and more expensive unless you make it yourself--and if you can, Greenmachine has a whole step-by-step thread among the stickies in this topic.

The attenuator, with its volume control all the way to the maximum (though that is counter-intuitive), is slightly noisier and much cheaper (about $8).

[nathantw666]

Sending those mics directly through mic-in at a rock concert will give you a bunch of distortion, no matter how bad your seats are.

You are going to need something to prevent the bass from distorting the recording. Your choice is mic-->battery box-->line-in or mic-->attenuator (Radio Shack Headphone Volume Control)-->Mic-in. The battery box is cleaner and more expensive unless you make it yourself--and if you can, Greenmachine has a whole step-by-step thread among the stickies in this topic.

The attenuator, with its volume control all the way to the maximum (though that is counter-intuitive), is slightly noisier and much cheaper (about $8).

Thank you! That was really helpful. I think I'll go the battery box way.

I read that I'll need to be very still without much jostling about when using a minidisc player to record and especially when it's writing the data to the disc after I press "stop." I don't want to lose what I record after all that "work." ;-)

[A440]

You don't have to be like a statue. If you're in theater seats you should be fine.

Just hold the unit still after you push STOP for about 30 seconds while it's writing the data. It will show SYSTEM FILE WRITING and then, when it's done, go back to the usual sign-on screen.

This is rarely a problem. I have had two failures out of hundreds of discs.