Brian Reynolds
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The H4n is now getting an old design recorder, (with the problems that came with that era of recorders).
Some of the newer design recorders from Zoom and Tascam may fill your needs better, lower noise pre-amps, better battery life etc etc.
There are MANY reviews on the H4n and its problems on many forums.
As you are new to recording you may look at buying a shotgun mic, the RODE NTG2 mic is a bad partner with many digital recorders because of the low output level.Spend some time going through this and other forums and you will find LOTS of useful info.
https://forums.creativecow.net/search.php?q=h4n&f%5B%5D=30
Celebrating 40 years of Broadcasting Audio….
Started with Magnetic stripe and Sprocket holes to now Gigabytes and Touch Screen Mixing Consoles…… -
I think you need to go back and read my original post again…… I have never said that you should only use pro gear……
What I said ‘or implied’ is that very basic gear can deliver great results when used with skill and good operation technique….. On the flip side of that pro gear can also deliver disastrous results when not used correctly…… But basic gear used poorly will deliver terrible results.
If you actually arm yourself with enough people with a good knowledge base and perhaps use the ‘cheapest’ of gear you will deliver good results. But try and do everything as a one person crew with basic gear, good luck you are going to need it.
Celebrating 40 years of Broadcasting Audio….
Started with Magnetic stripe and Sprocket holes to now Gigabytes and Touch Screen Mixing Consoles…… -
While ‘chasing levels’ for low speaking persons actually creates problems for ‘YOU’.
I do some annual AGM type meetings and was faced with similar problems and then changed the tack to lowering (slightly) the level on people that aren’t prepared to use a mic properly….. They are then ‘forced’ to raise the mic to their mouth and then i will then raise the level to get good results.
Also by people seeing that poor mic technique gives poor / almost acceptable results they will continue to do it, perpetuating the problem for future generations of ‘sound mixing people’If anything is said by the organisers just say ‘I was doing my best but when people refuse to use a mic correctly there is not much I can do’
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I have used these and had good results….
https://www.behringer.com/EN/Products/FBQ100.aspxNot going to totally fix the problems you have unless you do a complete rejig….
A trick I have often used is to actually turn the level down on people with bad mic technique and tell them how much better good technique sounds as seen on other people….. Guess what they learn fast 😉
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” 863 to 865 range” Thats an incredibly small frequency band range to be searching through….. Why are you NOT using the full RF frequency range of the radio mic system?
Many countries that band has been taken over by mobile phones / Data, what is the current frequency allocations in your country?
Just found this on a UK website that may help.
https://www.dmmusic.com/media/wysiwyg/dm-radio-flow1.jpg
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Alan I will answer your question with a question…… How do news broadcasters do it? And why do they do it that way? Why do they use hand held interview microphones, lavalier mics, boom mics etc.
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Are the microphone extension cables correct?
I once worked in a small suburban theatre with bad RF problems, ALL XLR wall plates, patch bays and the mixing desk were wired in phase reverse. (pin 3 hot)
Even the mic cables were wired incorrectly, yes it was pin1>1, 2>2 and 3>3 but they put the cable braiding onto pin 3……. Yes it was RF hell working there.
It gave me just over a month of work to rewire the whole place, so shouldn’t complain to much. -
Where there any mics plugged in?
If so what sort of mics were they?
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If you wanted to ‘mix on the go’ get small ‘Behringer’ style desk mixer with sliding faders and for a hundred bucks or so feed that into the H6. it will deliver MUCH better results than any crash mixing.
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In my world ‘mixing’ is not just joining tracks together….. Mixing is when you have individual control of each signal so you can raise the level of a quietly spoken and lower the level of a person who talks in a louder voice.
Its a sad day in audio when you have to crash mix anything.
I also own a Zoom H6 and have never found a mix ‘on input’ option, there is a monitor mix to headphones for monitoring, but its very basic.