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Howard J
We're recording from a former choir loft and getting inadequate audio only
on the PC-based recording. We're probably going to end up trying a digital
camcorder; presently we're recording audio via an inexpensive zoom mic
that's worked fine on our analog old camcorders (and we're recording video
via a USB [probably 1.1] which surprisingly is working well--we're recording
using the large option). Here's the loft location from an earlier thread:
I obtained a zoom mic and tested it using an analog camcorder (plugged into
the camcorder's external mic). It helped at least somewhat, and anyway the
tape's volume was fine when played in a normal VCR.
I next tried using the zoom mic with direct recording to MM2 (on a new large
hard drive, speed 7 somethings--basically, one of the fast ones<g>). When I
play it, with the PC's volume turned up high, the audio is barely audible.
(In the same computing session, I tested the audio by playing a WAV file.)
Shall I:
--Put in a different audio card? (This makes me hesitant, because I think I
have to uninstall the onboard audio to do that, and that means it might be
difficult to try to fall back.) We have available two new cards:
Mad Dog Prowler 4.1 DSP 4 channel PCI sound card
Mad Dog Predator 5.1 DSP 6 Channel PCI sound card
--Get a more expensive zoom mic?
--Not worry about it if we go with a digital camcorder instead of our
current zoommic/USBCamera combo? (The cameras we're thinking of will do
firewire but has no external mic port.)
--A combination of the above, or something else?
Thanks in advance for any advice, particularly soon<g>. Thanks!
on the PC-based recording. We're probably going to end up trying a digital
camcorder; presently we're recording audio via an inexpensive zoom mic
that's worked fine on our analog old camcorders (and we're recording video
via a USB [probably 1.1] which surprisingly is working well--we're recording
using the large option). Here's the loft location from an earlier thread:
I obtained a zoom mic and tested it using an analog camcorder (plugged into
the camcorder's external mic). It helped at least somewhat, and anyway the
tape's volume was fine when played in a normal VCR.
I next tried using the zoom mic with direct recording to MM2 (on a new large
hard drive, speed 7 somethings--basically, one of the fast ones<g>). When I
play it, with the PC's volume turned up high, the audio is barely audible.
(In the same computing session, I tested the audio by playing a WAV file.)
Shall I:
--Put in a different audio card? (This makes me hesitant, because I think I
have to uninstall the onboard audio to do that, and that means it might be
difficult to try to fall back.) We have available two new cards:
Mad Dog Prowler 4.1 DSP 4 channel PCI sound card
Mad Dog Predator 5.1 DSP 6 Channel PCI sound card
--Get a more expensive zoom mic?
--Not worry about it if we go with a digital camcorder instead of our
current zoommic/USBCamera combo? (The cameras we're thinking of will do
firewire but has no external mic port.)
--A combination of the above, or something else?
Thanks in advance for any advice, particularly soon<g>. Thanks!