>>1242039Yeah handling noise is going to be a plague on these "prosumer" recorders. Even though they're sometimes marketed as pro they're nothing of the sort. The DR-40 is one of the worst offenders btw.
>>1242050I don't do much "real" nature recording like the other guys, I'm more interested in messing around and experimenting. As a result I only have heaps of unfinished stuff, most of it is cool but not interesting enough to post. Not sure if that would help you in gauging the DR-40's quality. There's some stuff in this thread though, I'm
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>>1216791Here's a pair of recordings of barges in a canal lock. The first one is a single hydrophone, the second one is hydro in the left channel and contact mic on the lock gate in the right. I found fascinating the variations of sound with just the slightest changes of depth and position of the mic in relation to the canal walls, the reverberation is so complex... the eddies actually keep moving the mic in the water. In the second one the lock opens at about 3:20 and the sound of the engines immediately fades away.
https://vocaroo.com/i/s1b8MYr2DuKOhttps://vocaroo.com/i/s0K2H0UZJor0 