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?
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
Didn't they advertise they improved the pre-amps with the H4N Pro? As opposed to the original H4N
Quote from: hoserama on November 09, 2017, 10:23:56 AM
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
The H6 has better preamps
Quote from: rippleish20 on November 09, 2017, 10:20:43 AMTascam DR-680 -127dB
That is for the mk2, I wonder how is the DR680 mk1 ?
Quote from: IronFilm on November 29, 2017, 07:05:40 PM
Quote from: rippleish20 on November 09, 2017, 10:20:43 AMTascam 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
Quote from: rippleish20 on November 29, 2017, 07:13:34 PM
Quote from: IronFilm on November 29, 2017, 07:05:40 PM
Quote from: rippleish20 on November 09, 2017, 10:20:43 AMTascam 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.