[Ty Ford]

Excellent, Chris,

Thanks for reporting back!

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[Ty Ford]

Thanks Peter,

So far, what I’ve heard are individual strings (as in a note on one string) or horn or piano, etc. Not as useful as I had hoped.

But you never know….

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Kevin and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

It’s been a while since I needed a cheap, small voice recorder.

Please look at this list and see if there’s anything that appeals to you.

https://bhpho.to/31MHgvj

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[Ty Ford]

Hello Chris and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

The position and dispersion fo the pink noise source and the position of the mics will effect some difference in the EQ reading because a room is basically a large mechanical filter.

Room tone taken in different parts of a room can also be very different due to local structures and noise sources.

Give it a test and let us know how it goes.

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Hello John,

Love the Melodica! I have a friend here who can play his so it sounds very much like an accordion.

I hear an unpleasant edge around the Metric Halo recording.

The Olympus recording sounds much cleaner and more natural.

Are they both through the AVX system?

Your files are mp3. That’s a scalable, compressed format. Are both files at the same kbps, like 128, 256 or whatever?

Can you record 24-bit WAV files?

Due to the relative complexity of the melodica, perhaps the compression is munging up the sound.

Oh and AVX does it’s own data compression just to get from the transmitter to the receiver.

Going back quite a few years, there were tests done determine the problems with compressed audio. While some “golden ears” could detect data compression artifacts with only one round through a system. It took others 2-3 trips.

Artifacts in Orchestral Strings were heard more quickly than others.

The AVX system was designed for voice. I think you and your melodica may have encountered the technical limitations of AVX. An analog wireless might do you better if you absolutely need to be wireless.

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[Ty Ford]

Hello John and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

You’ve got the first one worked out.

On the second one, my guess would be the lower charge. Try keeping it on the charger longer and see if you can get the charge state higher. Also remember that as rechargeable batteries age, they can’t hold the full charge.

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Hello Mary and welcome to the Cow Audio Forum.

Sounds like some sort of local interference. I’d put the receiver as close as possible to his transmitter.

Maybe place the receivers up high so there would be line of sight. from receiver to transmitter antennae, or around behind them if they’re wearing the transmitters on their backs.

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Brian,

There you go! Got that off your chest? Happy to be a platform for your displeasure.

I’ve found that the old send and return audio files, while a total PITA, does work. Perhaps not with iZotope plugins. I haven’t tried it with iZotope and FCP X. Perhaps I will.

Anything else then?

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Sorry Robin,

Not enough coffee and an aggressive spell checker here.

You said, “Their support has proven to be by far the worst I have experienced in a very long while, especially for such a pricy product! Only half-a$$ed responses that were never actually useful and you got the impression they didn’t even bother to read what I wrote. Absolutely inexcusable. They will never see another penny from me. Which is unfortunate, since in principle the tools are great.”

I thought this was referring to Apple and FCP.

iZotope has a long and successful run in audio apps. I use them effectively in Pro Tools and have for maybe 10 years. I have FCP X, but have never used iZotope plugins.

I googled FCP and iZotope and perhaps this will give you some help. It’s from the iZotope support site.

https://support.izotope.com/hc/en-us/articles/360033187213-How-to-use-RX-as-an-audio-editor-with-Apple-Final-Cut-Pro-X

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[Ty Ford]

Robert,

Sorry you’re having these difficulties. I would talk to apple about it or post in the Creative Cow FCP forum.

I consider $299.99 a pretty inexpensive amount for what FCP X offers.

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