Many have suggested setting levels manually when recording from analog sources. Any tips for how to best determine the correct level using the MZ-R3s and -R30s feeble little LCD bars?
You will have the correct recording level when the level meter is just between 4 and 5 bars. Verified with an MDS-503 from Sony, between 4 and 5 bars on the MZ-R3 record level meter will give you somewhere between -3 dB and 0 dB. Regarding the ‘R30: A user connected a 303 to the R30 using a POC (optical) cable and compared the two meters. The result: Just consider the top bar to be ‘digital over’ and try to adjust your level in such a way that the second bar doesn’t light up too often when recording from an analogue source (even less when recording live). That should do it. Compared to the MZ-1 the R30 meter is not very useful.
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