microtrack

[Dylan]

Anyone use a Microtrack 24/96?

I bought one and it's unusable for quiet recording because of the hissing in
the background.
Do I have a faulty model or are they all this bad?

Dylan

[Richard Crowley]

"Dylan" wrote ...
> Anyone use a Microtrack 24/96?
>
> I bought one and it's unusable for quiet recording because of the hissing
> in the background.
> Do I have a faulty model or are they all this bad?

What is feeding audio into it?
Are you talking about the little toy stereo mic it comes with,
or are you feeding it with something more substantial?

You could also define what YOU mean by "quiet recording".

[Dylan]

"Richard Crowley" > wrote in message
...
> "Dylan" wrote ...
>> Anyone use a Microtrack 24/96?
>>
>> I bought one and it's unusable for quiet recording because of the hissing
>> in the background.
>> Do I have a faulty model or are they all this bad?
>
> What is feeding audio into it?
> Are you talking about the little toy stereo mic it comes with,
> or are you feeding it with something more substantial?
>
> You could also define what YOU mean by "quiet recording".
>
>
Sorry for not being more precise.

Yes, I've tried the toy mic, but it's the Rode N4 I'm using as my trial mic.
I'm using a battery in the N4 as I've heard the Microtrack doesn't have
enough phantom power.

I tried recording a conversation in a room using an old minidisc
player/recorder, a Yamaha MD8 (Not portable, but wanted to see how it
compared) and the Microtrack

MD8 won hands down, very little noise, minidisc and Microtrack had similar
amount of hiss but the Microtrack was brighter.

I see there's a thread on portable recorders.. I may have to look elsewhere!

(Sorry, I can't post the audio of the test as it has been deleted. I can
post another recording done with the
if it will help?)

Dylan

[Richard Crowley]

"Dylan" wrote ...
> Yes, I've tried the toy mic, but it's the Rode N4 I'm
> using as my trial mic. I'm using a battery in the N4
> as I've heard the Microtrack doesn't have enough
> phantom power.

The MT2496 has adequate phantom power for all but
certain micropones that want a full 48V. I also have a
MT2496 and I just got my NT4 back (from being leant
to a friend.) I will try my combination.

> I tried recording a conversation in a room using an
> old minidisc player/recorder, a Yamaha MD8 (Not
> portable, but wanted to see how it compared) and
> the Microtrack
>
> MD8 won hands down, very little noise, minidisc and
> Microtrack had similar amount of hiss but the
> Microtrack was brighter.

"Brighter"? Does that mean that the MDs didn't have
enough high frequency response to hear whether the
hiss levels were similar? I'd be suspicious of such
results.

> I see there's a thread on portable recorders.. I may
> have to look elsewhere!

The MT2496 and other portable recorders have been
extensively discussed here over the last couple of years.
Google Groups should provide hours of tedious reading.

> (Sorry, I can't post the audio of the test as it has been
> deleted. I can post another recording done with the
> if it will help?)

Dunno what that means? You can't post ANY audio to
this newsgroup. It is text-only.

[Dylan]

>
>> (Sorry, I can't post the audio of the test as it has been deleted. I can
>> post another recording done with the
>> if it will help?)
>
> Dunno what that means? You can't post ANY audio to
> this newsgroup. It is text-only.

But I could post a link to it

[Rich]

Dylan wrote:

> But I could post a link to it


If you could, I would listen.

[Arny Krueger]

"Richard Crowley" > wrote in message

> "Dylan" wrote ...
>> Yes, I've tried the toy mic, but it's the Rode N4 I'm
>> using as my trial mic. I'm using a battery in the N4
>> as I've heard the Microtrack doesn't have enough
>> phantom power.

> The MT2496 has adequate phantom power for all but
> certain micropones that want a full 48V. I also have a
> MT2496 and I just got my NT4 back (from being leant
> to a friend.) I will try my combination.

Slam dunk - the NT4 runs off of an intenal 9v battery in a pinch. It is
speced to run off of any of the standard phantom voltages from 12v to 48v.

[richard]

Yes I've found mine to be noisy. It has other big problems too - like try to
delete a track and chances are, the wrong one will go. Also it has no
rec+pause facility - the only way to get your levels is to make a test
recording, and if you'r elike me and want to keep your files tidy, you delete
it...and there's wher the previous problem kills you.

Their product support is poor too.

I also have an Edirol and while it doesn't have some of the features (notably,
phantom powered TRS inputs), it's a superior product in most ways.

r

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>
>
>Anyone use a Microtrack 24/96?
>
>I bought one and it's unusable for quiet recording because of the hissing in
>the background.
>Do I have a faulty model or are they all this bad?
>
>Dylan
>
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