Topic: What is this noise caused by?

[vegeta_ban]

I want to first say that I usually tape in the open taping section using a 722 and telefunken, last night i recorded with low pro with my zoom h2 and a sony tie clip mic. What would cause things like hat pictured above? It made the recording practically unlistenable, I know of at least one other taper there, so it's not a complete loss.  Also are there any threads i can refer to for better low pro gear to use when I'm not able to use my open recording rig?

[Church-Audio]

I want to first say that I usually tape in the open taping section using a 722 and telefunken, last night i recorded with low pro with my zoom h2 and a sony tie clip mic. What would cause things like hat pictured above? It made the recording practically unlistenable, I know of at least one other taper there, so it's not a complete loss.  Also are there any threads i can refer to for better low pro gear to use when I'm not able to use my open recording rig?

My guess is a bad connection or... a loss of power or a hair hitting the diaphragm. But that's all you will ever get. When you have issues like this all you can do is turn your rig on and wiggle cables around the mic and the input connections. To see if you can duplicate it. If not my guess of a hair hitting the capsule would be my #1 But again it depends on how open things are in front of the capsule..

[vegeta_ban]

thanks for the response, I'll test all that when I get back home after work to see if I can duplicate it. I have only used this setup to record a couple shows before, since I mainly open tape with my large gear. This was perplexing, thanks again.