Internal Microphone noise

19 Jun 2005 6:43 AM

John

Hello all,
Has any had a problem with drum noise being picked up by the
internal microphone on a Sony DCR-TRV340e camcorder? The camera has
had little use - but the drum noise is getting to a stage where it
overpowers the voices on the DVD.. any help / advice appreciated.

John
Adelaide, South Australia

21 Jun 2005 3:11 PM

polymorph

It's always a bad idea to use the internal microphone. I've seen very
few camcorders with even close to sufficient isolation between the mike
and the camcorder body, and those were all big VHS camcorders with
semi-shotgun mics sticking way out on the end of a 2 inch corrugated
rubber support.

Every MiniDV camcorder I've seen has the mics built right into the
case. My old JVC sounds like a coffee grinder if you don't use an
external mike, from the day I bought it. You'll also get a lot better
sound with an external.

Steve
Tacoma, WA USA

John wrote:
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> Hello all,
> Has any had a problem with drum noise being picked up by the
> internal microphone on a Sony DCR-TRV340e camcorder? The camera has
> had little use - but the drum noise is getting to a stage where it
> overpowers the voices on the DVD.. any help / advice appreciated.
>
> John
> Adelaide, South Australia

21 Jun 2005 4:09 PM

Malcolm Stewart

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> It's always a bad idea to use the internal microphone. I've seen very
> few camcorders with even close to sufficient isolation between the mike
> and the camcorder body, and those were all big VHS camcorders with
> semi-shotgun mics sticking way out on the end of a 2 inch corrugated
> rubber support.
>
> Every MiniDV camcorder I've seen has the mics built right into the
> case. My old JVC sounds like a coffee grinder if you don't use an
> external mike, from the day I bought it. You'll also get a lot better
> sound with an external.
>
> Steve
> Tacoma, WA USA

My experience is different. I have both Sony TRV22 & TRV60 MiniDV cams. I
certainly hear the motor noise if I mount an external mike directly in the
camcorder's hot shoe, so have invested in the Beyer* rubber-band (sorry! "O"
ring) mount which cures the problem. On the other hand, there's virtually
no mechanical noise picked up when I use the internal microphones, just
wind-noise if there's even a slight breeze.
* http://www.keene.co.uk/pages/cat/04sou/04F.html

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M Stewart
Milton Keynes, UK
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