ROLAND R26 with Sennheiser ME67 (1 Viewer)

[ksajwan]

I am using ROLAND R26 with Sennheiser ME67 shotgun microphone
setting are plugin mic and cable are XLR female with 3.5 jack but the problum is quality are not good. there is some technical mistake. can any one help me

 

[iveljay]

I understand the Roland R26 to be an excellent 6 track recorder, however, I don't own one. In the absence of an immediate reply from anyone using your set-up, it would help to understand your problem if you could provide a full answer to three questions:

1. What are you trying to record in terms of subject (species and number) , distance and environment.

2. What exactly is the quality problem? For example - low volume, distortion, wind noise, hums or mechanical noise?

3. Precisely how you are connecting your ME67 microphone to the recorder, which version of the K6 are you using?, are you using a suitable cable terminated with an XLR plug to connect to your recorder or are you using a cable terminated with a jack. If you are using an XLR terminated cable are you using 48v phantom power into your K6?

With this information it is possible that someone may be able to suggest typical answers to your problem even if they are not using identical equipment (and it will still help them if they are). If the hardware side checks out we may be able to consider how you have set up the recorder in a future response.

I apologise for asking you this detail but as many on this thread will agree it is about the only way that we are likely to come up with a good answer.

J

 

[ksajwan]

Roland R26

I understand the Roland R26 to be an excellent 6 track recorder, however, I don't own one. In the absence of an immediate reply from anyone using your set-up, it would help to understand your problem if you could provide a full answer to three questions:

1. What are you trying to record in terms of subject (species and number) , distance and environment.

2. What exactly is the quality problem? For example - low volume, distortion, wind noise, hums or mechanical noise?

3. Precisely how you are connecting your ME67 microphone to the recorder, which version of the K6 are you using?, are you using a suitable cable terminated with an XLR plug to connect to your recorder or are you using a cable terminated with a jack. If you are using an XLR terminated cable are you using 48v phantom power into your K6?

With this information it is possible that someone may be able to suggest typical answers to your problem even if they are not using identical equipment (and it will still help them if they are). If the hardware side checks out we may be able to consider how you have set up the recorder in a future response.

I apologise for asking you this detail but as many on this thread will agree it is about the only way that we are likely to come up with a good answer.

J

Thanks for answer
first I got this equipment for birds call recording and try to record birds call in single species the quality of sound is not good
second I am using XLR cable one side is XLR female and another side is 3.5 jack and not using 48v phantom power k6 has AAA alkaline cell to power it

 

[iveljay]

In what way is the sound not good?

 

[iveljay]

Personally I would be inclined to use a cable that provided an XLR connection into the recorder, since you have the benefit of having the choice(update: having had a quick read of the manual either approach is equally good providing that the wiring they specify for the jack is complied with).

Unfortunately to generate two tracks suitable for stereo headphone listening it looks as if you have to export the track to your computer and use the DAW they supply with the recorder as you cannot mix down on the recorder itself.

When I am setting up a recording I rely heavily on monitoring the recording with some decent closed back headphones, that way I can set up the microphones and the recorder to produce an optimal result. The speaker you find on some recorders is next to useless other than to reassure yourself that something has been recorded.

You just run the recorder in its record standby state where you can hear what you would be recording and monitoring the meters for any clipping etc.

Remember to disable recording from the internal mics unless you really want two more tracks of ambient noise to mix in.

Finally, get to practice using the equipment before you go out looking for birds. Start in your home and see if you can get a clean recording of say a radio.

I see there are mixed reviews on Amazon.com these seem to range from rave reviews from experienced sound technicians to the opposite from some of the people who are starting into recording.

I have had a quick glance at the manual online and while it goes into a fair amount of detail of how to record an orchestra, the short section on recording outdoors is possibly no help at all to you.

Unfortunately, as I don't own a sample of this particular recorder and it has an extensive and flexible set of set-up menus I cannot really recommend the best set up to try, however, as it has a 'field' mode I am sure you are starting with that.