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I have a NH900. I am making some test recordings as I prepare to record our church service tomorrow. I left the AGC in auto (cause it goes back to auto anyway and I won't want to have to keep fiddling with it during service and I don't think the batteries will last two or three hours keeping it in pause), MIC sensitivity to low and my recordings are noisy. I have tried it in both PCM and HI-SP mode and they are basically the same, noisy. You don't really notice it until I normalize them in Sony Sound Forge 7 but you can hear a hiss before the audio starts. Sounds like a cassette or vinyl record. I can use a plugin to remove it but this is why I changed from tape. Any idea what I am doing wrong? If I'm going to have to process the files to remove noise etc... I could have just stuck with the tapes.

I finally got my mic and will be recording with my NH900 at church tomorrow for the first time. I installed the wav conversion tool and each time I open it the target folder defaults to my personal folder on my D:\ drive. However, I want it to default to where I store my sermons E:\Home Recordings\Sermons. I searched the registry but can't figure out how to change this default. Anyone have any idea?

v2.3 loaded and is working without SP2. Thanks for the help and my apologies to the OP for hijacking their tread.

Yes, I have admin access and the CD says v2.1...

I am not trying to hijack this tread but I am having the exact same problem. Except I can't load SP2 because it is a company machine. Is there an older version I can use on my work laptop?

Yes it does, that is nice to know. I want to do my first recording at church tomorrow in HI SP but I can't find it in the menu. Where is that? Will it stay set? I see how to turn off the mic agc but is that the setting that won't stay? Is there a way to set the mike level before my pastor is preaching? I don't want to keep messing with it during the sermon.

What am I missing? Since the manual was poorly written for my taste I decided to just go through all the menus and see what is where. Is it me or once you go into a menu you can't back up? I'm having to go out of the menu and come back in but I'm sure I must be missing something. Oh, I say the manual is poorly written because I like step by step instructions. It took me a while to figure out to push the button in the middle of the wheel to select something in the menu. I like instructions that will tell you to push the button and what button to push.

I'll try this over the week end. Somewhere I read that you can make a CD from line in recordings. Had to do with copywrite protection. Teach me not to believe everything I read on the net... Thanks for all the help guys!

You are correct about not pointing it at speakers unless you are recording a person reading or a lecturer. Remember, speakers are made to give optimal sound at a given distance.

When I say keyboard, I mean musical keyboard as in electric piano. His zip drive is part of his electrical piano. The line in jack would be perfect except for that copywrite protection Sony put on it. Can I jack it into the mic jack and get around that?

Guess I left a big part out, his zip drive is part of his keyboard. I don't have a zip drive on my puter. My plan was to copy fromm his zip drive to my minidisc then to my puter then onto CD. Unless someone has a better suggestion.

I got my NH900 today and showed it to the pastor of our Church. He is also a great musician and has a song he wrote and mastered on a zip disc. He wants me to take and put it on a CD. What is my best choice to get minimum loss in quality?

I haven't received my NH900 yet so I can't say for sure but if it is like most other devices, line out will get you a set level vs. headphone jack which can be adjusted by the volume control. It is usually located before the final amp so you eliminate the noise that comes from that also. Then there is impedance???

Now that's what I'm taking about! I just listened to a file named end over end from Joseph Arthur "Echo Park". What a difference from this POS digital recorder I got for Christmas. I can't wait for my NH900 to arrive but it just shipped today.

Thanks Hyena, that is a pretty slick little Dude! Don't know what 10 GPB is in $ but at least I have a place to start... Thanks again!

Well, since I plan to record at church I was hopeing for something I could lay down somewhere and it won't be in the way. An external mic could make this option bulky and real noticeable. Do they make a small mic that may stick to or cling to as opposed to out of a NH900? I decided it was the one for me. Now I'm wondering if I should have looked at HD units a little more.

What do you guys think of the MZ-NH1 or would a basic MD line the NH600D be ok for my needs? Looks like the MZ-NH1 has all the features I was looking for but may be an over kill since I don't think I need things like optical/line in etc... I don't like the odd size rechargeable battery or the USB connection not being on the dock/charger but other than that it looks ok. The NH600D looks like a cheap, feature less version of the same player. Does it even have a built in mic? I can't tell. What are your thoughts? Also, what does, "Auto Personal Disk Memory capacity" give you?

I got an Olympus DS-330 digital recorder for Christmas. It was to replace my dragging, unreliable cassette I use to record the choir and sermons at church. I've used it twice now and it sounds like i'm listening through a toilet paper tube. I suspect it is because the specs are 300 -5K bandwidth at 12k sample rate. Obviously, I have the wrong device and the widest bandwidth I can find on a digital recorder was the Sony BM1 @ 60 - 11Khz, 44.1khz sample. Better but don't we hear up to like 20Khz? Been looking at minidisc but I can't tell what the specs are. I hate to end up making a second bad investment so soon. Looking for something very, very small, preferably that will fit in my pants pocket but I guess I may have to settle for my suit coat pocket. Definately the smaller the better. Built in battery/mic a must. Stereo would be ok but not mandatory since I can use sound forge to make it into stereo. Most I want is quality sound (fidelity instead of 300 - 5Khz), something better than my old cassette yet something I can EASILY edit the files and burn them to CD. This digital recorder has a docking station with software that makes this process a snap. I read another post saying wait on the generation 2 HI-MD. Is that the consensus or is my ideal device already on the market? How about the NH900? Is this what I want? Budget, $100 would make me happy but I may can go up to $250 or $300 if I must. I'm fairly froogle, not cheap, froogle! :wink: