i can speak for just one recorder and that is the Olympus LS10, for
some quirky reason it has less self-noise when set on low sensitivity
and high gain, as opposed to high sensitivity and lower gain. Even
after matching the levels in post processing. This was figured out by
Raimund Specht and is mentioned somewhere on his website. So "LOW 10"
is my default setting for the LS10, it works better than "HIGH 3"
which had been my previous default setting. Likely this does not
apply to all recorders, but it is certainly worth testing various
settings on whatever recorder you do have.
Vicki Powys
Australia
On 13/06/2015, at 5:41 PM, Peter Shute
[naturerecordists] wrote:
> I think I read somewhere that on some recorders, low sensitivity
> just attenuates the signal, so why attenuate it just to amplify
> again in the next stage? And on some, the high setting applies
> digital amplification (which you can do more safely yourself
> afterwards), while on others, no one knows what the controls do. I
> may have misinterpreted what I read, but I took it to mean that you
> need to try various settings out for yourself.
>
> Peter Shute
>
> On 13 Jun 2015, at 12:50 am, 'J. Charles Holt'
> <>
> [naturerecordists] <<naturerecordi=
> >> wrote:
>
> I've seen some people say it's better to use high sensitivity and
> low gain, and other say low sensitivity and high gain, but never any
> explanation of when or why. Does it vary depending on equipment or
> situation (or both)?
>
> - Charles
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