
Obi-Wan zenabI
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I got a Zoom H2 and already recorded a concert with it. I stuck it up on the balcony with the rear mics on the organ pipes and the front catching my choir and the brass ensemble.
It came out really well. There's plenty of page turn noise from the organist and a ton of audience noise, but I'm thoroughly impressed with the thing.
It's a large 1820's congregational curch with an eliptical dome--- great for clarity of spoken word, but not a lot ambience and reverb to the space.
I'm deciding whether to add reverb and to which mics... I was playing with just putting some Kajerhus Classc Reverb "great hall" on the rear mics to fatten up the organ and get a little cathedral sound in. There's plenty of vox and brass in the rear mics, so they get fattened up too.
Adding reverb only to the rear also seems to keep more clarity in the center since the rear mics are spread further.
I got a 4 GB card for it, which gives over 6 hours of 2ch 44.1 or 3 hours of 4 channel. I'm sure MP3 is way more.
The thing did not clip, even sitting five feet in front of a very large pipe organ. Sensitivity set to medium. I pulled back the recording volume to 85 just to be safe since I was not doing a sound check of any sort and I'm not concerned about the noise floor so much-- this was just for fun and for reference.
I ran a few searches and did not find much on the H2, but for me, it's ideal. Anyone have links to recordings so that I can compare with my handiwork?
It came out really well. There's plenty of page turn noise from the organist and a ton of audience noise, but I'm thoroughly impressed with the thing.
It's a large 1820's congregational curch with an eliptical dome--- great for clarity of spoken word, but not a lot ambience and reverb to the space.
I'm deciding whether to add reverb and to which mics... I was playing with just putting some Kajerhus Classc Reverb "great hall" on the rear mics to fatten up the organ and get a little cathedral sound in. There's plenty of vox and brass in the rear mics, so they get fattened up too.
Adding reverb only to the rear also seems to keep more clarity in the center since the rear mics are spread further.
I got a 4 GB card for it, which gives over 6 hours of 2ch 44.1 or 3 hours of 4 channel. I'm sure MP3 is way more.
The thing did not clip, even sitting five feet in front of a very large pipe organ. Sensitivity set to medium. I pulled back the recording volume to 85 just to be safe since I was not doing a sound check of any sort and I'm not concerned about the noise floor so much-- this was just for fun and for reference.
I ran a few searches and did not find much on the H2, but for me, it's ideal. Anyone have links to recordings so that I can compare with my handiwork?