Siegmund
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Anticipating a long winter of not many visitors and not many chances to play outside the house, I have treated myself to a Zoom H4N recording setup (tripod, remote control to start/stop recording, etc).
Wow, do I have a ton to learn about how to do this properly. I did a fair bit of reading of old threads here and on other forums before buying, but still have a lot to digest.
I am at least having some confidence that my LH vs. RH balance isn't too horribly far off now, and have gotten some semblence of a stereo effect from the recording (X-Y microphone pair, and the stereo effect gets stronger the farther away I am from the microphones, which I confess I was not expecting.)
So far, the mics are doing a great job right out of the box of not picking up ambient room noise, but picking up subtle things like the click of the keys if I push harder than I need to.
I've also discovered that the built in wav to mp3 converter introduces a few random clicks and pops - so I'll be turning that off and saving any converting for after stuff is copied onto the computer.
On the debit side, my playing quality went into a heck of a slump, between the time I ordered the equipment and the time it arrived... so all my grand fantasies of improving my musicality by reviewing the recordings are on hold; I have plenty to do dealing with awful wrong notes and tempo hiccups without needing a recording to tell me about more subtle things yet.
Wow, do I have a ton to learn about how to do this properly. I did a fair bit of reading of old threads here and on other forums before buying, but still have a lot to digest.
I am at least having some confidence that my LH vs. RH balance isn't too horribly far off now, and have gotten some semblence of a stereo effect from the recording (X-Y microphone pair, and the stereo effect gets stronger the farther away I am from the microphones, which I confess I was not expecting.)
So far, the mics are doing a great job right out of the box of not picking up ambient room noise, but picking up subtle things like the click of the keys if I push harder than I need to.
I've also discovered that the built in wav to mp3 converter introduces a few random clicks and pops - so I'll be turning that off and saving any converting for after stuff is copied onto the computer.
On the debit side, my playing quality went into a heck of a slump, between the time I ordered the equipment and the time it arrived... so all my grand fantasies of improving my musicality by reviewing the recordings are on hold; I have plenty to do dealing with awful wrong notes and tempo hiccups without needing a recording to tell me about more subtle things yet.
