Re: [microsound] Concert and field recording: MD a good idea?

[Aaron Ximm <ghede@xxxxxxxx>]

> if you have, say, guitar in one side and drums in another, you are probably
> going to experience drops and surges in the volume which sound really shitty.
> for example, if the drums start hitting loudly, the guitar volume will
> subsequently be cut with the drum peaks.  the end result is often lurching,
> uneven, and generally a piece of shit.

I've never had this problem doing stereo recordings using half a dozen (?)
different consumer decks ~ did you disable 'automatic gain control' (aka
auto record level)?

AGC attempts to 'ride' the levels during recording and should pretty much
always be turned off for field/concert recording... in most decks
(especially Sonys) it must be explicitly de-activated before every new
recording.

 aaron

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