[Nicholas Canavan]

Hi Ty, thanks for your response, appreciate it.

I’m a little confused..As far as my camera, i’m not connecting it to the live desk at all, just recording completely seperately the audio with the marantz connected to the desk. I set the marantz pmd660 for a line feed in its menu.

I know exactly what you mean with getting natural room noise of the crowd etc, which is missed in the live desk feed. But the on camera mic just can’t seem to handle the level, even when i turn the record level as low as possible, it cant handle the heavy bass etc from the live gig (super loud club music).

Is the first youtube clip you mentioned address there? I saw the other one, but wasn’t the one you were reffering to above was it?

What is the best solution here?

Nick.

[Nicholas Canavan]

Ernie,
Yes, and your right, overall it does work better when the mic isn’t so close to a subject. I guess my problem with it is, that i do have to bring up the level slightly (still aiming generally at the -20 to -12db mark) if the mic is further from subject. But if someone raises there voice a decent amount, or music is played, it then tends to distort..even though like i mentioned, the levels are nowhere near the dreaded red.
I use phantom power and have heard a few people mention that the phantom power might not be great on the marantz, have you heard of this at all?

thanks again..
Any more advice is much appreciated.

[Nicholas Canavan]

Edward, yes sometimes i use the -20db attenuator…but i can’t say it has helped much with this distortion type problem, it turns down the overall level, but then i generally have to raise the levels up a bit to get a decent enough (but still low level), and the distortion is no less likely to occur.

Thanks for your responses