The whine could be a permanent flaw of the H4. Maybe folks know of an
exception, but all I've encountered is the whine and consistent
reports of it when recording at 44.1K/16 and 48K/24 but NOT when
recording at 96K/24. Here's my test:
http://www.uwm.edu/~type/audio-art-tech-gallery/pages/SD722_Rolls%3EHiMD_Sa=
msonH4.html
Maybe there's a firmware fix? I couldn't find an firmware upgrade. Rob D.
At 2:36 PM +0000 1/9/07, oryoki2000 wrote:
>Comments about the Zoom H4 self-noise
>are found here:
>
>Message #25195 posted by Robin Carter
>Message #25196 by Rob D.
>
>Mike Rosenthal posted the original message
>on the Yahoo Phonography group in November.
>The noise is described as "whirring."
>A recording containing the noise is here
>http://www.tempaural.net/audio/zoomnoise.wav
>
>Listening to the file, Rob D. wrote:
>"Hi Mike-- I hear some line hum and a dropping,
>pulsing high frequency tone that seems identical
>in both channels. Do you have other mics to try
>in the recorder to see if these sounds are in the
>recorder? I'd guess they're in the adapter/mics
>or a relation between the adapter/H4."
>
>I don't think the source of this particular problem
>was identified.
>
>--oryoki
>
>
>
>"Microphones are not ears,
>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
>Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
--
Rob Danielson
Peck School of the Arts
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
http://www.uwm.edu/~type/audio-art-tech-gallery/
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