Re: [nfc-l] noise with OB21c microphone + solid state recording using AC power
Hey Wim, Glad to hear that the grounding solution was in fact the easiest fix, for now. Yeah, extra wiring is ugly, but sometimes it’s necessary to make things work out. Sincerely, Chris T-H On Sep 20, 2018, at 1:40 PM, Wim van Dam mailto:wim.van@gmail.com>> wrote: 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 mailto: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, 2mAh 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 mailto: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 -- Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes Field Applications Engineer Bioacoustics Research Program, Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, New York 14850 W: 607-254-2418 M: 607-351-5740 F: 607-254-1132 http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp -- 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/ --
Re: [nfc-l] noise with OB21c microphone + solid state recording using AC power
Hey Wim, Glad to hear that the grounding solution was in fact the easiest fix, for now. Yeah, extra wiring is ugly, but sometimes it’s necessary to make things work out. Sincerely, Chris T-H On Sep 20, 2018, at 1:40 PM, Wim van Dam mailto:wim.van@gmail.com>> wrote: 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 mailto: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, 2mAh 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 mailto: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 -- Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes Field Applications Engineer Bioacoustics Research Program, Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, New York 14850 W: 607-254-2418 M: 607-351-5740 F: 607-254-1132 http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp -- 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/ --
