On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 19:20:05 +0100, "Keith G"
wrote:


"Don Pearce" wrote in message
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On Sun, 1 Oct 2006 17:53:13 +0100, "Keith G"
wrote:


"Don Pearce" wrote


Yebbut, do practice turning down until it isn't clipping any more.


The volume on the amp is at 8 o' clock and not loud in the room, the gain
on
the preamp is about 20% (if that) of max, the sliders in SF are nearly on
the floor - it records fine (OK, maybe up to 0.0 on the heavy ****, but
the
'clip flags' don't come on).....

...and then the fekkin thing clips on playback.....???

Need to get the socket set out, I suspect....


Well, those pics are really heavily clipped. Fire up the windows
mixer, click the advanced button on the mic input and take away the
tick from the 20dB gain box. That should make the sliders and levels a
bit friendlier.


Noop - the recordings are single channel from the mic's pre into my
'computer amp' Aux Input and Tape Out to the computer.

Here's the last batch - A and B are the same setup as Bangs A and B, C and D
are swapped about a bit. The 'dual mono' workaround was employed to avoid
the -6dB SF brick wall (??) and provide two channels of music - with a
little adjustment here and there to avoid clipping, but it wasn't a breeze!!

So.....

Which twin has the Toni..??

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/Track%2085%20A.mp3

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/Track%2085%20B.mp3

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/Track%2085%20C.mp3

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show/Track%2085%20D.mp3


Here's the original CD track for reference - stereo, of course!!

http://www.apah69.dsl.pipex.com/show...2085%20Ref.mp3


Pick the winner and I will reveal all.....

(At least it was an interesting and useful way of frittering away a
decidedly *autumnal* afternoon - it has bucketted down here! :-)


Well B and D both have the same problem of a horrifying fizzy
distorted top end, although I have to say that they are all (apart
from the reference) very lacking in bass. If these have been recorded
through the Behringer mic, that is down to the speakers. We also have
the rapid dropoff above 10kHz on all of the speaker files - again, not
down to the mic any more.

So what is it with B and D? I'm actually surprised you can bear to
listen to them, they are just horrible.

d

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