[Peter Larsen[_3_]]

Mike Rivers wrote:

| henrytj wrote:

|| I am considering getting a Zoom H4 to add to
|| the kit for recording when I can't be cabled to the camera (like in
|| a shot with a moving camera.) Yes, I read that the H4, and other
|| under $1000 recorders have noise problems

| You have? Problems? Exactly what have you heard? I've gone over quite
| a few of them, and some lack gain on the external mic inputs (which
| could result in excessive noise). Is that what you're talking about?
| If so, the H4 is pretty good with external mics, and it supplies 48V
| phantom power. The H2 works quite well with its internal mics and
| line level sources, but not well when using external mics connected
| to its mic input. Better to use
| a preamp into the line input.

It took a bit of finagling but I have successfully mastered some H2
recordings in 2008, some of them were underrecorded by 30 dB using the
internal mic with an incorrect gain setting, so Ï'm inclined to say: "not to
worry, configure so that clipping doesn't occur and set and forget.

| double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo -- I'm really Mike Rivers

Kind regards

Peter Larsen