Rick, he's using the Zoom H5 with built-in mics. He doesn't have a choice of spaced pairs at the moment. The level differences are because one is his raw original track, the other is after I did a pseudo-mastering pass, so naturally raised the levels to CD volume.
To me, the noise is relative. -35db is certainly not pro studio quality, but for a home recording, compared to recording with a pickup, and for sharing on the interrnet, etc, a little noise is not a showstopper. Certainly worth trying to find the source and fix it tho, if you can without going too crazy. Room treatment isn't really about reducing noise, tho. You can eliminate reflections, and get a less hollow sound with room treatment, but noise in a home studio probably comes from some source - fridge, air conditioning, a computer, traffic, lights, etc. It can be pretty challenging to get rid of, and if you have, say, a computer in the room, it will still be there making noise after room treatment - the noise will just be higher fidelity :-)
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