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Is the supplied external mic of the H1xx better than the internal?
Llorean:
Well, a suggestion to avoid responses like that would be to read the manual so that you're familiar with what settings do before you change them.
Muse:
I made my first recording this morning in my yoga class. Based on recommendations (well, some of them) I chose to make the recording in WAV. I figure I can do experiments, adjust levels, and when I'm happy with how it sounds, rip it to MP3 using the LAME encoder or maybe rip to another format. Probably will make several compressed versions and compare. I'm told there's no necessity to have a 60 MB file for a one hour voice recording. Right now the WAV is probably around 5 times that size.
One thing I'm wondering about. In using WAV, encoding parameters were N/A, evidently. However, AGC was in effect and I used "Voice (fast)." Is that appropriate or should I have used "Safety (clip)" or some other?
Febs:
--- Quote from: Muse on May 28, 2008, 03:59:59 PM ---One thing I'm wondering about. In using WAV, encoding parameters were N/A, evidently. However, AGC was in effect and I used "Voice (fast)." Is that appropriate or should I have used "Safety (clip)" or some other?
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Have you read the description in the manual of what these settings do?
petur:
--- Quote from: Muse on May 28, 2008, 03:59:59 PM ---One thing I'm wondering about. In using WAV, encoding parameters were N/A, evidently. However, AGC was in effect and I used "Voice (fast)." Is that appropriate or should I have used "Safety (clip)" or some other?
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1) when saving as wav, there are no parameters to configure
2) AGC adapts the gain to the signal on the fly, the AGC mode sets the speed at which it responds to those changes (except AGC SAFETY which will only lower the gain, never increase)
It all depends on the environment in which you do the recording, so experiment a bit to find the settings that fits you most.
After recording, you can open your WAV file in audacity or another editor to normalize or even do dynamic compression...
Muse:
--- Quote from: petur on May 29, 2008, 10:09:48 AM ---
--- Quote from: Muse on May 28, 2008, 03:59:59 PM ---One thing I'm wondering about. In using WAV, encoding parameters were N/A, evidently. However, AGC was in effect and I used "Voice (fast)." Is that appropriate or should I have used "Safety (clip)" or some other?
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1) when saving as wav, there are no parameters to configure
2) AGC adapts the gain to the signal on the fly, the AGC mode sets the speed at which it responds to those changes (except AGC SAFETY which will only lower the gain, never increase)
It all depends on the environment in which you do the recording, so experiment a bit to find the settings that fits you most.
After recording, you can open your WAV file in audacity or another editor to normalize or even do dynamic compression...
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The environment is not good. The room's walls are completely glass (mirrors on 3 sides). The result is poor acoustics, a considerable echo effect. I suppose there's nothing that can be done about that. In any case, the recording I made yesterday came out rather satisfactory.
I tried normalizing a test file (using Audacity 1.2.6) but the result wasn't good. I was introduced a couple of days ago to a great utility called The Levelator:
http://www.conversationsnetwork.org/levelator/
I heard that Audacity 1.3.5 beta includes leveling, but The Levelator seems to have done a very good job. You just drag and drop your WAV or AIFF file onto it and it processes it to more or less equalize the volume. It was designed for those voice files in which some speakers are not as loud as others. I really like the results it gave me. I took the resulting WAV output file and ripped it to MP3 using the LAME encoder and wound up with a 30 MB file for the 1:04 recording. It sounds very good and in fact is pretty equivalent to being in the room live, is my thinking. In fact it might be better. I think that maybe the instructor didn't turn up the background music as high as usual in deference to the fact that I was recording.
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