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Reply-to: neo.rr.com To: guysonic@aol.com Hi folks, I'm a brand-newbie amateur hobbiest DAT recorder, and I'm intrigued by your DSM mics. I've read some reviews and downloaded sample MP3 files from your webpage and have been impressed with the sound quality for such an affordable mic. I wish more manufacturers provided sample MP3s including info about the recording setup! It would make research and decisions much easier. I noticed that the sample recordings did not include any loud amplified music in small club scenarios, so I'm curious how the DSM mics perform under these conditions. I'm primarily interested in recording live rock & roll and bluegrass. The rock & roll shows will most likely be LOUD and in small venues (200-1000 ppl), with an occasional large stadium-like venue. The bluegrass performances will be amplified through a sound system and outdoors. Soon, I'll be receiving my Xmas gift (lucky me!) Sony TCD-D100, which I may exchange for a PCM-M1 to defeat SCMS. I'm an avid tape trader, and I don't want to limit the future generations of the clones I send out. I checked out your DSM chart, and it looks like the mic best suited for my purposes is the DSM-6/M or /L. I imagine you folks have plenty of interest from amateur hobbiests such as myself, so any guidance you can provide would be infinitely helpful. Thanks for your time, Brian Akron, OH >> Hello Brian, Thank you for expressing interest and providing excellent details on available portable equipment and music tastes. The DSM-6S/L or DSM-6S/L would seem a good 1st choice for handling both loud and more moderate PA'd venues. The need to avoid the SCMS limitation is understandable as some tape trades involve dubbing a consumer deck made copy and a pro deck allows dubbing from any source. It may be useful to know that either D100 or M1 portables represent one of the very best choices for making live recordings, but the dime-sized heads will start to wear out within 300-500 hours. This limits the usefulness of the small decks to just making the live recordings and occasional playback, but using for tape trading is not a good idea where a full sized DAT deck with many thousands of useful head life hours is more practical and economical in the long run.
Both D100 and M1 decks would need the MOD-2 upgrade if direct DSM powering is desired without using the PA powering adapter. This is the most convenient way to configure the mic deck system. If your loud music recordings are often of venues employing way-excessive bass, then perhaps defer the MOD-2 and consider the PA- 6LC2 powering adapter as a better choice with having the ability to control moderately excessive bass with a defeatable 85 cycle bass filter. The other option is to have the MOD-2 installed and use any suitable PA-6LC(xxx) version only when recording venues that require this optional bass reduction for cleaner recordings and this also gives better deck mic preamplifier headroom to excessively strong bass content. Powering & bass filter considerations are discussed at: http://www.sonicstudios.com/pa_x.htm General Ordering information is at: http://www.sonicstudios.com/ordering.htm Thank you for reminding me of not having a loud (and bassy) venue representation in MP3 available. I recently deleted a fairly loud (but not excessively bassy) clip (15 MEG) as it was not getting much interest. I believe that the "Days Between" Phil & Friends sample is closest to this type of sample, but I'll look into posting a DSM recorded and traded version of Pearl Jam or similar. Some extremely loud groups in clubs just don't sound very good MIC recorded only because the PA's are being very driven into distorted unpleasantness regardless of the mic/deck used. In these situations, a sound board feed may give better sound (although these generally don't sound good either for different reasons) over an audience mic'd recording. Regards in Sound & Music Recording, Leonard Lombardo ======================
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