Does recording from the MD line out to the sound card's mic input by nature=
add noise, vs. to a sound card's line in? I don't have a line in on my
laptop, on which I do my editing, but I do on my older PC.
At 11:29 PM 9/5/2004, Dan Dugan wrote:
>John Piekos mailed me an MD and wrote to me directly:
>
> >I dropped an MD to you w/2 min of silence, track 1. I'm curious to
> >see how much noise you find on it.
>
>It was very quiet. Too quiet, really. I could just see the ambient
>noise and preamp/mic hiss at the very bottom of the 16-bit dynamic
>range, and your voice announcement didn't exceed -60 dB. If you have
>been recording at this level, I suggest turning your headphones down
>and your recording gain up.
>
>The noise problem that was evident in the first recordings that you
>posted is gone. I suspect that originally you had been taking the
>line output of the MD recorder into a mic input on your sound card.
>Am I right?
>
> >I did re-record some of my sounds through my sound card (line in)
> >which I think eliminated some (but not all) of the hum/random noise,
> >(see
> ><http://www.johnpiekos.com/sounds>http://www.johnpiekos.com/sounds
> >for the latest).
>
>Right, these aren't noisy now, but some of the levels are low. What I
>do to get a ballpark recording gain is to speak an announcement in a
>normal voice and set the record gain so it's peaking around -4 dB on
>the meter or so. I've found this to be a good gain for quiet
>ambiences.
>
>-Dan Dugan
>
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>
>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
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