? about XLR Adapter on PDX-10

Chris Thiele · November 16th, 2004, 03:55 AM

Jay Massengill wrote: "...you can get burned if you don't also listen for clipping at the input.....

This is exactly what happened to me. Jay this is the best explanation I have read on this. And explains what happened. I have used audio gear for many years with great success and on the cam got caught big time with severe distortion even though the level controlls appeared to be in the correct range. It took a lot of post production on the audio to retrieve it it to a moderate standard. But as you would know it is never as good trying to recover after a mistake. I now use headphones.

Nigel Garvey · December 11th, 2004, 10:24 PM

You are so right jay and this is something that is so important, yet ignored in the sony user manual.
I learnt so early with my pdx that I have had a partition added just for my headphones!
Cheers all

Nigel Garvey · December 11th, 2004, 10:40 PM

Partion in my camara bag that is!!!!!

Ignacio Rodriguez · December 12th, 2004, 03:19 PM

Sony has a history of non-accurate audio metering with their pro-audio gear. I have a 10-year old Sony portable professional DAT recorder, and it sometimes pulls off this great trick of not showing clipping when recording, and then when you play back the tape on the same machine you can see that the levels actually hit 0dB. It' a terrible thing! So I wouldn't be surprised if the PDX10's metering is not accurate. Probably some cheap tradeoff in the processing that displays the input level, perhaps it's not sampling the signal often enough or something like that.

December 11th, 2004, 10:24 PM	#17
Nigel Garvey Regular Crew Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Bristol UK normally on Overseas Assignment tho' (currently Bangladesh) Posts: 28	You are so right jay and this is something that is so important, yet ignored in the sony user manual. I learnt so early with my pdx that I have had a partition added just for my headphones! Cheers all __________________ Must be mad to do this job!

December 11th, 2004, 10:40 PM	#18
Nigel Garvey Regular Crew Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Bristol UK normally on Overseas Assignment tho' (currently Bangladesh) Posts: 28	Partion in my camara bag that is!!!!! __________________ Must be mad to do this job!

December 12th, 2004, 03:19 PM	#19
Ignacio Rodriguez Contributor Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Santiago, Chile Posts: 932	Sony has a history of non-accurate audio metering with their pro-audio gear. I have a 10-year old Sony portable professional DAT recorder, and it sometimes pulls off this great trick of not showing clipping when recording, and then when you play back the tape on the same machine you can see that the levels actually hit 0dB. It' a terrible thing! So I wouldn't be surprised if the PDX10's metering is not accurate. Probably some cheap tradeoff in the processing that displays the input level, perhaps it's not sampling the signal often enough or something like that. __________________ Ignacio Rodríguez in the third world. @micronauta on Twitter. Main hardware: brain, eyes, hands.

November 16th, 2004, 03:55 AM	#16
Chris Thiele Regular Crew Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Launceston, Tasmania, Australia Posts: 59	Jay Massengill wrote: "...you can get burned if you don't also listen for clipping at the input..... This is exactly what happened to me. Jay this is the best explanation I have read on this. And explains what happened. I have used audio gear for many years with great success and on the cam got caught big time with severe distortion even though the level controlls appeared to be in the correct range. It took a lot of post production on the audio to retrieve it it to a moderate standard. But as you would know it is never as good trying to recover after a mistake. I now use headphones.