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Re: Backpacking Solutions Revisited

Subject: Re: Backpacking Solutions Revisited
From: "Scott Fraser" scottbfraser
Date: Fri May 25, 2007 9:09 pm ((PDT))
<<These popping noises permate these recent Grand Canyon recordings.
They occur about
once every two or three minutes. I can't seem to edit them out with
Logic's Sample editor.
Could I have bungled the transfer of the 16 bit recording to the 24
bit computer file?>>

Probably not if it was a matter of simply transferring files. If it
was a real time digital playback via SPDIF or AES/EBU into your DAW
the clicks may have been a result of a wordclock mismatch between the
two devices.

<<Could it have been some sort of short, or static, in my recording
system?>>

Was it very humid on site? Extreme humidity can cause static
discharges between the front & backplate of a condenser mic.

<<Quite a mystery. I have not had this problem before. I wonder if
others have it too.>>

I ran into the humidity problem when recording in a coastal rain
forest in Costa Rica. This caused continual popping in a pair of AKG
C451s, ruining the first day's recordings. That problem was solved by
substituting an electret mic.

Scott Fraser









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