Here's what I've discovered: Zoom should hire DSLR users as salespeople for their H4N!
I decided I would challenge the "recording audio on the gh1 is just for fun".
Here is what I discovered:
Built in Mic sucks. Horrible, irritating noise.
Rode Videomic isn't much better. Bad, irritating noise.
Here's what DID work:
A Shure PG57 hooked up to a Mogami XLR to 3.5mm cable hooked up to a 3.5mm to 2.5mm adaptor I got from frys for $1.99 (no shaving required!). And it worked GREAT!
In fact better than great. It worked awesome. Very clean audio. The noise level only got as loud as -25db. And I could only hear said noise with my studio headphones on. "Just for fun" I ran it through a noise reduction setting on Adobe Audition with a -40db noise reduction and 25% spectral decay and got absolute silence between everything I said! Moreover there was no artifacting that could be heard and it was the cleanest sounding audio you could hope to hear.
Is negative infinity an acceptable noise floor ;-)
Oh btw, I'm a new poster here, please to "meet" you.
I decided I would challenge the "recording audio on the gh1 is just for fun".
Here is what I discovered:
Built in Mic sucks. Horrible, irritating noise.
Rode Videomic isn't much better. Bad, irritating noise.
Here's what DID work:
A Shure PG57 hooked up to a Mogami XLR to 3.5mm cable hooked up to a 3.5mm to 2.5mm adaptor I got from frys for $1.99 (no shaving required!). And it worked GREAT!
In fact better than great. It worked awesome. Very clean audio. The noise level only got as loud as -25db. And I could only hear said noise with my studio headphones on. "Just for fun" I ran it through a noise reduction setting on Adobe Audition with a -40db noise reduction and 25% spectral decay and got absolute silence between everything I said! Moreover there was no artifacting that could be heard and it was the cleanest sounding audio you could hope to hear.
Is negative infinity an acceptable noise floor ;-)
Oh btw, I'm a new poster here, please to "meet" you.
