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Gear / Technical Help => Recording Gear => Topic started by: gormenghast on November 08, 2017, 03:46:59 PM
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I pretty much don't go to concert anymore except for my kid who's in the HS Winds Ensemble and Jazz Band. I used a Zoom H4n Pro the other night to record his jazz concert. Internals. There is a kid a grade below him who is very talented and played an amazing solo improv that just blew us away. Of course his dad was sitting next to me and wanted a copy of the show. He received it and wanted to know more about the recorder--I guess to record his son himself. FWIW, I think the recording turned out very good.
I was wondering how does one go about reading specs to see how noisy a recorder can be? Is there anyway to record something and view it in Audacity that would show how noisy or not the recorder is?
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The H4N is fairly noisy from what I can see
EIN gives an idea of Pre-amp noise.
EIN Numbers (I found different sites with slightly different numbers in some cases but this gives an idea. The SDs are more like ~129)
PCM-M10 -122dB
SD7XX -133dB
Zoom F8 -127dB
Tascam DR-680 -127dB
Zoom H6 -120dB
Zoom H4N -107dB
http://wildtronics.com/recorderguide.html
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Didn't they advertise they improved the pre-amps with the H4N Pro? As opposed to the original H4N
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Didn't they advertise they improved the pre-amps with the H4N Pro? As opposed to the original H4N
Looks like you are correct,
H4N Pro -120dB
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The H6 has better preamps
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Tascam DR-680 -127dB
That is for the mk2, I wonder how is the DR680 mk1 ?
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Tascam DR-680 -127dB
That is for the mk2, I wonder how is the DR680 mk1 ?
http://www.avisoft.com/recordertests.htm
The same according to this
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Tascam DR-680 -127dB
That is for the mk2, I wonder how is the DR680 mk1 ?
http://www.avisoft.com/recordertests.htm
The same according to this
That is with the gain in High, which is not the usual setting. Most concerts are likely recorded on Low.