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Re: MicroTrack2496

Subject: Re: MicroTrack2496
From: Dan Dugan <>
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 11:41:15 -0700
Gianni Pavan wrote:

>       I just received my MicroTrack from Core-Sound.
>I would just drop a quick note about the noise floor of its
>preamplifiers. The web page
>http://home.rustradio.org/~rdvdijk/microtrack/ shows strange noise
>spectra on the 1/4" inputs, different for the two channels. My unit
>has the same figures but only when nothing is attached!
>
>By inserting a condenser microphone those strange noises disappear
>and the noise spectra become flat at a level lower than with nothing attac=
hed.

Thanks. A case of people having fancy instrumentation but not knowing
how to use it. Testing a mic input unterminated is always misleading.
Never do it!

-Dan Dugan


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