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AV News 194 - November 2013 Letters August Issue - No Overloads Malcolm & Jenny Gee Howard, I was interested to read your article in AV NEWS about producing a new lead to connect your external mono microphone to your Sony PCM M-10 recorder. I purchased a PCM M-10 recorder in May this year, and we took it on holiday with us to Switzerland in June. I found that it coped very well when recording a ships horn (which had a very unpredictable sound level), when I set it up with the LIMITER function enabled (detailed on pages 44-5 of the instruction booklet), which automatically gives you 12db of attenuation before you can expect some distortion to occur! I was using a Sony ECM-MS907 stereo microphone, with the recorder REC LEVEL set to 4 and the MIC SENS(ATT) set to HI. Obviously your modified lead will give you 3db more attenuation, and also the advantage of having 2 separate mono recordings, however I do a lot of our recordings in stereo, and thus find the available 12db of automatic attenuation is very handy! Jenny says that she found your article in AV NEWS on 'Objects and Animations' in PTE very useful, and is looking forward to parts 2,3......!!!! See Page 4 for Part 2 of O&A Eds. August Issue - Music Angel Friendz What a superb magazine this quarter (August). It arrived yesterday and already I have received a Music Angel Friendz - and it is superb. Thank you so much for the excellent article. I am going to order at least another one and also one for the PC. Save me a lot of energy (at 81) lugging heavy speakers and an amplifier. Have been waiting for something like this for years. I also enjoyed Keith Scott's PS-Third Images,