That's good to hear, although I note you say "partly disagree". I assume if=
I'd been more careful about dropping the lead on the ground, and cleaned t=
he tip occasionally then I wouldn't have had any trouble.
I also probably would have fixed the problem sooner if I carried headphones=
to at least check the signal before leaving the equipment. At least I have=
one good channel from the two recordings that were affected.
Good idea about the cleaners, I've put it on the weekly shopping list.
Peter Shute
From: O=
n Behalf Of Klas Strandberg
Sent: Tuesday, 29 October 2013 12:13 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [Nature Recordists] Re: 3.5mm recording input crackle
David, all,
I partly disagree in this hate campaign against 3,5 mm and plug in power.
Since I started running plug in power a few years ago, I never have problem=
s with mini-jacks, unless worn out gold plated contacts on head phones.
The by far most common problem in my workshop are cables which have broke w=
here the XLR housing ends.
Long ago, buying gears with XLR's meant buying quality. Vice versa, stuff w=
ith mini jacks were made for the poor ones and bad.
That is not the case anymore. Mini jack gears might be really good and XLR =
stuff might be bad.
Today there is no reason to feel "amateurish" because you use mini-jacks.
I have two Zoom H4n and the XLR inputs are broken on both of them. (3,5 mm =
works)
There are small closed bags that you can buy anywhere to clean your eye gla=
sses. They work fine to clean connectors too.
Klas.
At 22:44 2013-10-28, you wrote:
> I assume what was meant by "unsuitable for field work" was that there's a=
more suitable solution, but it's not in my price bracket.
Peter,
What I meant was to take the home environment into the field and keep the
Message: 3.
Subject: 5's clean and dry and with no movement.
As for crackle, the major source is with PIP. With low mic level audio,
slight misconnections only vary the level very briefly, but with 2V or so o=
f
DC PIP added, the slightest increase in contact resistance in a plug is
applied to over 0dB in DC volts, in a mic circuit handling under -60dB. Wit=
h
Message: 3.
Subject: 5mm jacks and sockets, only a tiny area of each connection makes
contact,
so any movement is likely to cause trouble.
I can remember when XLR plugs were coming into use instead of plugs twice
their diameter used by STC, Coles, etc. XLR's were designed by Cannon to be
reliable and robust. This new range of "X" plugs incorporated a locking
mechanism (the "L") and resilient rubber mounting of the female sockets (th=
e
"R"). Instead of jack plugs with a single point of contact, the plugs meet
in more than one area, usually using two sprung strips. Subsequently,
Neutrix (pronounced "noytricks") mounted both halves rigidly and made the
connectors resilient, and we have the present day XLR series.
David Brinicombe
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