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  1. Thank you for that detailed response. I think that you may be right. I'll experiment with the sensitivity settings and see what happens. Of course, you are right about the wooden flute, now that I think about it. It has a very overtone-rich sound, moreso than silver flute. Furthermore, the very rhythmic, almost percussive, style of Irish playing actually uses those overtones. I may try setting the microphone further away as well. Beau
  2. I'm afraid this is where my newbie-ness is showing. I just plugged in the mic, hit Record, and away we went. I assume that I was recording in Linear PCM. Does this seem right to you? Beau
  3. Hi, I recently acquired a Sony MZ-NH900 HiMD player/recorder. I think it is a great device, although I am having a hard time understanding the operation of it. I play traditional Irish music and was using the device to record a rehearsal session. I play wooden flute and my partner was playing fiddle. I was recording using a Sony ECM_MS907 stereo microphone. I had the device on a coffee table beside me and had placed the mic between me and my fiddle player on another table. I recorded about 2 hours of our practice, pausing the device occasionally. Later, when I was listening to the recording I'd made, at first the audio quality was really very good. In fact, had it not been for some background noises (fiddler's dog barking, spouse coming home, me shuffling in my seat) the quality was on par with some home studio CD's I have heard. But then I began to notice that the audioquality would very suddenly drop out, and then just as quickly it would be back to normal. Every few seconds, and only for a split second each time, the playback would sound as if it was an LP record where the needle hits a scratch. The sound wouldn't quite skip. But the effect was really as though there was a rapid frequency drop off for a split second and then it would go back to normal. This phenomenon happens thoughout the recording I made. I thought that maybe we were hitting certain frequencies or decibels that the microphone couldn't cope with and so the sound would drop out. That seems very unlikely since A) We were only playing acoustic instruments, and they were unamplified at that, and It's a pretty nice microphone that ought to be able to cope with a pretty wide frequency spectrum. I wondered also if it might have been that the effect was caused by our foot-tapping. Maybe the table the device was resting on was picking up that vibration. But it couldn't have been that much vibration. And I thought minidisc recorders were good a coping with such things. A couple of weeks prior to this I had made another attempt to record our playing (not realizing that the battery on my microphone was dead the whole time) and during that time I did manage to drop my minidisc player onto a carpeted floor. I was pretty freaked out that I might have hurt it, but the playback of a few CD tracks I had on that disc was not affected, so I assumed that everything was okay. Those CD tracks still play back fine, but that one recording session is worrying me. Have I broken my minidisc player before I have even learned how to use it properly? Sorry if this issue has already been addressed elsewhere. There is a huge amount of info on this site and I have not been able to get thru all of it yet. Beau
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