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Re: New Member Needs Help with Hum

Subject: Re: New Member Needs Help with Hum
From: "Aaron Ximm" aaron_gmail
Date: Thu May 21, 2009 5:23 pm ((PDT))
Hi Felicia,

> All my recording seem to be plagued with a background low-frequency hum (=
perhaps the wrong term). I've tried to turn down the recording levels on th=
e MZRH1, but this does not help. Recordings made with the cheap $50 mic do =
not have this hum (but of course they are too faint).

Do you have the power switch on the [battery-powered] mic body turned on?

I seem to remember people having a problem that if the battery power
is turned on on that mic, AND plug in power is provided by your
recorder (as it always is in the case of that Sony), you get hum...

...and that the solution was simply to turn off the mic powering, and
allow it to be powered by plug-in power.

I could be misremembering this of course...! :)

 aaron

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