MLiebergot
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Sep 17, 2007, 11:26 AM
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Re: [MLiebergot] Official NEW Zoom H2 Thread! UPDATED...
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Ok, just did my first field test with the H2 ata wedding this weekend. It worked alright, except for one major problem with the pre amps.
NEW! Pre Amps are not that great.
Used the H2 at a wedding this weekend in placed in front of Bose speakers the DJ was using.
The H2 pre amp was set on M (Medium). I forgot to turn on the onboard limiters, so it was partially my fault on this as well.
It worked flawlessly, until the DJ cranked the sound waaaaaaaay up.
At that point the, audio turned to squelching mush, until I set Pre amp to L (Low), then all was good. And when I mean squelching mess, I mean loud squelching mess. Totally inaudible and useless
So if If you place H2 in front of PA stack, make sure that you turn Pre amp to L (Low).
I never had an issue with my R09 in front of a PA stack doing this, but just be warry to set your H2 to (L) for the pre amp and all will be good.
BTW, I didn't bring my R4 to this event (as it was a small affair), and ran my R09 into the DJ's RCA tape out on his board.
I was told that the tape out wouldn't be effected by his riding the audio levels during the night. I was warry of this and didn't believe him, and should have listened to my gut feeling.
And at the point where he cranked the audio up to max levels, which greatly effected my H2 audio (as mentioned above), he also blew out the levels completely in my R09. That is until I caught his mistake, and corrected the problem in the R09 and on the H2.
What was lame is that he cranked the audio for the Father Daughter dance, which was a slow country song, and absolutely not necessary. Of course the venue also cranked the lighting down in the middle of the dance, which really pissed of the photographer. I just calmly turned on my camera light and told her to use my lighting if needed.
Luckily, I had my wireless handheld micing a PA stack and being fed into my camera, so my audio will be fine for those portions.
Thank God I normally use tripple redundancy for my audio.
Michael
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They both sounded good. 
