PrairieWolfe

Hi everybody, I don't come onto this forum much, but I bought an NH900 in May and spent the last 4 months in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada doing field recordings of Cape Breton fiddlers. Hi MD has been indispensable in this regard. Instead of lugging a backpack full of cassette tapes with me, I took 4 tiny little discs. And the quality of the recordings... and being able to label them on the spot... But I'm sure none of you need to be convinced Before I left, my band and I recorded a couple of emergency demo tracks on the NH900 and when we went to burn them onto CD... we discovered that Sony was attempting to thwart us! We managed to stumble upon MarC's HiMD Renderer, which saved the day (or late, late evening). Now we are going on tour in November through Europe because of that demo. How's that for a success story? Anyway, I've just donated. If I ever strike it rich and get signed to a record deal or something, he'll be getting more than the few measly pounds I was only able to give. This is the best online community I've ever come across, and I dabble in all sorts of other things. Keep up all the support for the format, and keep donating. Take care everybody, Prairie Wolfe

The only thing I managed to do to slightly improve the slowed-down sound was to use a custom EQ setting and tweak it enough to cut down on the echoing. But then the whole sound becomes muffled as a necessary consequence. The noise is almost like a combined delay/reverb effect. Does it have anything to do with what they call a bass roll? I wonder? I don't know about that. There isn't too much to be done EQ wise to counteract this, but it seems to help a teenie weenie bit. Anyway, Kevin, it's a consolation to know that it's still better slow-down than old models.

I just bought an NH900 and came home all excited about its ability to slow down a recording without changes to the pitch. This feature was a priority when I was researching which model to buy, since I am a celtic fiddler and slowing down tunes is mighty helpful (as you can imagine) for learning purposes. Well, the NH900 slows it down all right... not as slow as I'd like, but still noticeably slower... and the pitch is retained... but there's so much echo and noice and "pinging" that I just can't make out things very well. It's pretty disappointing, but I wonder if it's an inherent problem when you pitch correct something that's slowed down... and I wonder if the NH1 does the same? Any thoughts? I know that there's pretty good computer software for slowing down stuff, but I like the idea of having a portable version for learning on the fly. When I'm at a festival or a camp, I don't have access to a computer. It might be a matter of "hear it today, perform it tomorrow"...