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Subject: Hiss in My Recordings
From: "Jerry Berrier" <>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 19:05:16 -0500
This morning I caught a recording of two cats "caterwauling", (sorry)
I used my Sennheiser ME66 shotgun mic and a Sony MZR70 minidisk recorder.  =
I
recorded in Monaural mode.  The recording sounded great.  I then plugged th=
e
output of the recorder into the Line-in on my home computer and transferred
the recording via Goldwave into a mono 44,100 8 bit file.  (I usually use
11000, but I went to the higher resolution to see if it would help.  I
noticed no gain in sound quality)
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When I listen to it back, I can hear a very high frequency hiss, only when
the cats are meowing.  Is that what artifacts are?
I then listened to the recording an octave lower, and I could clearly hear
the distortion that caused the hiss.
My computer sound card is a run of the mill Gateway computer sound card. =


Am I guessing correctly that the distortion is probably coming from the
sound card?

Here's the meowing audio.
http://www.townisp.com/~jerry.berrier/cats.wav

Any thoughts?

Jerry
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