Thanks everyone for your suggestions. Chris was right: I needed to ground my recorder. The buzz stopped as soon as I wired the headphone jack to a gas pipe in my house. While my Marantz PMD661 is a nice recorder, it apparently is not designed to be powered by AC while getting its signal from another AC powered microphone. In the long run I will probably get myself a proper external battery for the recorder, but for the moment I'll fix this with some ugly wiring.
Thanks again. Wim van Dam Solvang, CA, USA On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 1:08 AM, Magnus Robb <magnus.r...@me.com> wrote: > Wim, I don’t know if your Marantz accepts external USB power. If it does > you could buy a high capacity powerbank (say, 20000mAh or more), connecting > it with a USB cable, and that would probably solve both problems: autonomy > and noise. > > all the best, > > Magnus Robb > > > On 20 Sep 2018, at 00:13:39, Wim van Dam <wim.van....@gmail.com> wrote: > > [I'm not sure if this newsgroup is still alive, but here goes.] > > This week I finally installed my OldBird 21c microphone and I'm having > some noise issues. In my setting I use a Marantz solid state recorder for > my recordings. When I power this recorder with its standard AA batteries, > things are fine but it does not allow me to record for more than a few > hours. When I use AC power for the recorder instead, a lot of noise shows > up at 1500Hz, 1620Hz, 1740Hz, 1860Hz, etc. Likely this has to do with the > fact that the recorder and the OB21c microphone use the same AC outlet. > > What is the best solution to this problem? > > Thanks > Wim van Dam > Solvang, CA, USA > -- > *NFC-L List Info:* > Welcome and Basics <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC_WELCOME> > Rules and Information <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC_RULES> > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC-L_SubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > *Archives:* > The Mail Archive > <http://www.mail-archive.com/nfc-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> > Surfbirds <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NFC-L> > Birding.ABA.Org <http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NFC> > *Please submit your observations to eBird > <http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>!* > -- > > > -- > *NFC-L List Info:* > Welcome and Basics <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC_WELCOME> > Rules and Information <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC_RULES> > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > <http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC-L_SubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm> > *Archives:* > The Mail Archive > <http://www.mail-archive.com/nfc-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html> > Surfbirds <http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NFC-L> > Birding.ABA.Org <http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NFC> > *Please submit your observations to eBird > <http://ebird.org/content/ebird/>!* > -- > -- NFC-L List Info: Welcome and Basics � http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC_WELCOME Rules and Information � http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC_RULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leave � http://www.northeastbirding.com/NFC-L_SubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm Archives: The Mail Archive � http://www.mail-archive.com/nfc-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirds � http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NFC-L Birding.ABA.Org � http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NFC Please submit your observations to eBird! ��http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
