[LUTE] Re: Re Portable Recorders

2012-06-19 Thread William Samson
OK - Ignorant question here. My Zoom H2 allows 'mic gain' to be controlled independently of 'recording level'. How do these differ from each other, and how should they be used? Bill -- To get on or off this list see list information at

[LUTE] Re: Re Portable Recorders

2012-06-19 Thread andy butler
Hi William, Mic Gain 3 position switch on the side of the unit which coarsely sets the gain of the analog pre-amplifier for the microphone. Record Level fine control of level which does not quite work as it should. Accessed by pressing Rec Button once to go into pause mode,

[LUTE] Re: Re Portable Recorders

2012-06-18 Thread willsamson
@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

[LUTE] Re: Re Portable Recorders

2012-06-18 Thread Franz Mechsner
...@ntlworld.com Cc: Lute Listlute@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

[LUTE] Re: Re Portable Recorders

2012-06-18 Thread Franz Mechsner
...@ntlworld.com Cc: Lute Listlute@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

[LUTE] Re: Re Portable Recorders

2012-06-17 Thread David van Ooijen
Do the new Zooms have manual gain setting? Indispensable. David On 17 June 2012 09:46, Anthony Hart resea...@monsignor-reggio.com wrote: Dear all, Many thanks for your replies. It seems there is  consensus on the Zoom. These had attracted me when I saw the specs. Now to decide the budget and

[LUTE] Re: Re Portable Recorders

2012-06-17 Thread andy butler
Hi Anthony, there is also an H1 with a very attractive price tag. The H2 and H4 are now upgraded to H2n and H4n. All 3 currently available models use the same microphone capsules so should all offer the same sound quality. regards andy Anthony Hart wrote: Dear all, Many thanks for your

[LUTE] Re: Re Portable Recorders

2012-06-17 Thread andy butler
hi David, good question! The H2n has a little rotary control for the input/mic level. The H1 has little up/down push buttons do per form a similar function. I'd guess that the rotary control on the H2n is actually connected to a good old potentiometer, so for H2n answer to your question would

[LUTE] Re: Re Portable Recorders

2012-06-17 Thread WALSH STUART
Andy, I have an 'old' Zoom H2. Is your workaround (below) intended to get a recording with less noise? I'd like to try it. I can see how to record at 24bit wav but I don't understand the rest. The gain settings are L/M/H. I have it set to M (mid). I've put up the volume

[LUTE] Re: Re Portable Recorders

2012-06-17 Thread David van Ooijen
For 'professional' recording - somebody mentioned 'cd-quality' recording - one needs to be able to set the gain manually. A lute is considered a soft instrument, but I think it's better to see it as an instrument with a very wide dynamic range: infinite nuances from ppp to mf. If your recording

[LUTE] Re: Re Portable Recorders

2012-06-17 Thread andy butler
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

[LUTE] Re: Re Portable Recorders

2012-06-17 Thread Roman Turovsky
I've just broken in my new Tascam stereo mic on the iPhone. It does have manual gain wheel, and the resulting audioclip was really good. More later!... Sent from my iPhone On Jun 17, 2012, at 4:00 PM, David van Ooijen davidvanooi...@gmail.com wrote: For 'professional' recording - somebody