Setting on Olympus LS-12 with AT2022 microphone

[thomas_bancroft]

Hi,  I have an Olympus LS-12 and a audio-technica AT2022 mic with a FEL 3.5=
 microphone preamp attached to it.  I am interested in taping the morning c=
horus of birds with this setup and am getting quite a bit of noise in it. I=
 was wondering if people had suggestions on the best settings on the LS-12 =
that would minimize the noise level in the recordings.  I used it yesterday=
 with the gain on the recorder set to "hi" and the level set to 40. Would i=
t be better to set the gain to "mid"?=0D
 thanks for the help.=0D
 tom=0D