Dear electronic wisdom,
Does anyone use the recording device Boss Micro BR and feel able and
ready to help me with some elementary stuff which I don't understand
from the instruction manual? Lease contact me via my email. Your help
would be extremely appreciated!
Best regards
Franz
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From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu on behalf of willsam...@yahoo.co.uk
Sent: Mon 18.06.2012 11:53
To: andy butler; lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu; WALSH STUART
Cc: Lute List
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Re Portable Recorders
I have an H2, too.
Thank you for the tip about 24-bit recording.
It's probably worth pointing out that the volume control on the left is
for playback through speakers/headphones. The recording level can be
set with the double arrow buttons either side of the red 'record'
button, on a scale of 0 to 127.
I'm still learning . . .
Bill
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From: andy butler <akbut...@tiscali.co.uk>
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Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2012 21:40:32
To: WALSH STUART<s.wa...@ntlworld.com>
Cc: Lute List<lute@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Re Portable Recorders
WALSH STUART wrote:
>
> Andy,
>
> I have an 'old' Zoom H2. Is your workaround (below) intended to get a
> recording with less noise?
hi Stuart,
In order to be sure of avoiding distortion when just using just the
L/M/H control
for volume I often end up with a quiet recording.
In digital recording that's equivalent to using less bits, which means
lower quality.
Say you use 16 bits, but recording is so quiet that you don't use
the 4 bits that cover the louder ranges. You could end up with what is
effectively a 12 bit recording (as an example).
Boosting volume up to the full range of 16 bits won't get back the lost
resolution.
With a 24 bit recording you can afford to lose those 4 bits without any
worry.
The quantisation noise that you get with a low bit rate recording is
thus
avoided.
Luckily the H2 circuitry has very little hiss when using the internal
mics,
so this all works just fine.
> The gain settings are L/M/H. I have it set to M (mid). I've put up
the
> volume control (on the left hand side) to 100.
Exactly. The H setting has just a little bit too much gain when
recording a Lute,
so the M setting is the only good choice.
>
> I use an old version of Audacity for editing on the computer. I
usually
> just bring in a wav file and 'normalise' it to 95%. You say 'in
editing,
> boost the levels'. Is that the same as 'normalise'?
Yes, that's it. Normalising is just a level boost that is calculated
for you.
hope that helps
andy
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