[TBman]

Originally Posted by Doug Young

OK, I tried the Zoom internal mics. They do need more gain, I ended up setting them at 7, resulting in a recording with peak level of -12db. So more gain on the preamp, and less final level. They may also be slightly noisier (not surprising, the cost of those internal mics has to be measured in pennies, not dollars). With a signal peak of -12 and noise level of about -67, that gives me a noise floor of -55 db, slightly worse than with the AT mics.

On the other hand, my wife's still doing laundry, but has switched from washer to drier, so maybe the noise difference is just due to that. Close enough in any case. Here's the raw zoom track:



and here it is brought up to level and mixed (no noise reduction). I left the silence at the beginning and end so you can hear the noise level.

The level of hum in both of these recordings is way lower than what I'm getting. Odd.