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Re: Re:Where did I go wrong?

Subject: Re: Re:Where did I go wrong?
From: Doug Von Gausig <>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 08:29:34 -0700
>Doug Von Gausig <> wrote, Sun, 09 Feb 2003:
> >
> > You can and should train yourself to listen
> > for the true sound of an area. I like to monitor the mic with one earphone,
> > then vary the recording level until the sound level is the same from the
> > earphone as it is in your bare ear. This will give you a setting that is
> > usually far quieter than where you would normally set the level using just
> > earphones, but will be a more accurate representation of the actual sound
> > level in the environment. You may learn that you are setting the level for
> > your recordings unnaturally high, thereby getting abnormally high ambient
> > noise. Try it.

Syd Curtis wrote:

>Doug, one small point please.  Where do you set your volume control for the
>one earphone?  At the mid-point of the range?  Or maximum?
>
>Syd

I set my headphones on the MZ-R50 as high as they'll go, usually.

Doug

Doug Von Gausig
Clarkdale, Arizona, USA
Moderator
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/naturerecordists



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