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BuyDig.com has Tascam DR-40 Portable Digital Audio Recorder (Luminous Gray) for $139 - $30 w/ coupon code HOLIDAY (Or you may clip the coupon on the product page) = $109. Shipping is free. Thanks iconian
Features:
- Built-in condenser microphones, adjustable to XY or AB position
- XLR / 1/4" mic/line input with phantom power
- Dual recording modes (safety track & overdub)
- 15-hour battery life from three AA batteries
- Up to 96kHz/24-bit WAV/BWF or MP3 recording resolution
- 2-second pre-recording buffer
- Built-in speaker and chromatic tuner
- 1/8" headphone/line output
- Playback EQ and level align & stereo reverb effect
- Tripod mounting hole
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So you are using a external microphone for better sound quality and a better SNR (Signal to Noise Ratio) one of the most important aspects of recording.
A good recording has a high SNR, you can do that one of two ways increase the signal, or reduce the noise. A external microphone does both by boosting your signal (your voice) and reducing the noise (ambient noise).
However if you have it set with a gain for your speaking voice and suddenly get excited you might blow the levels and cause clipping. When that happens the audio is almost not usable, but with dual recording, you can mux in the external recording to atleast salvage the recording.
The other thing is you can mux in some of the background noise if you wanted. Say you were filming on a busy street with a proper lapel microphone. It wont pick up much of the car noises and stuff in the background, but you might want to add some of it back in for effect.
As for your question, yeah if you use a posterior microphone setup and the internal microphone you can do dual posterior recording. However voice work is almost always better in Mono.
So instead of dual stereo I would set this near the middle using the internal microphone and then connect two external mics one for each person so they can be close to get that good SNR I was talking about.
White noise can be reduced in post production, but if you have a high SNR you will lose some of your signal in the process and possibly really damage audio quality. A good recording almost has no white noise and what is there is easy to take out using a sample of dead space where there is no signal only noise.
Tascam DR-44WL VS DR-40 Detailed Comparison & Test
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3jj5Qi
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Otherwise, great deal! Thanks OP!
Tascam DR-44WL VS DR-40 Detailed Comparison & Test
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3jj5Qi
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At least I got a bundle with a 32GB MicroSD, tripod, battery charger, etc :/
not professional quality but its convenient and sounds pretty decent for recording band practice type stuff.
just realized this one has XLR.......so I'm in for 1
not professional quality but its convenient and sounds pretty decent for recording band practice type stuff.
Probably referring to the dr-05