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Subject: New Member Needs Help with Hum
From: "c5nest" c5nest
Date: Thu May 21, 2009 5:13 pm ((PDT))
Hi,

I am an intermediate birder and photographer and a very novice nature recor=
dist.

Last year I bought the following equipment to start out: Sony MZRH1 and Sen=
nheiser ME67+K6 (with shock mount & windshield). Perhaps this was a poor ch=
oice.

My interest is in documenting individual species rather than doing soundsca=
pes, so perhaps I would be better off with a parabolic dish, but that is no=
t the main problem I am having.

All my recording seem to be plagued with a background low-frequency hum (pe=
rhaps the wrong term). I've tried to turn down the recording levels on the =
MZRH1, but this does not help. Recordings made with the cheap $50 mic do no=
t have this hum (but of course they are too faint).

I am recording in a fairly quiet environment (for suburban Maryland).

No amount of filtering in Audition will get rid of the hum without distorti=
ng the bird song.

Perhaps I am doing something obvious wrong or need additional/different equ=
ipment.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Felicia Lovelett









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