Originally Posted by Craig Seeman (Post 890859)

You're not going to be able to roll off "inherent" noise nor would such noise necessarily be below 100Hz. The camera pre amp and internal electronics may have more inherent noise than the mic itself. Also one needs to get a handle on the mic input sensitivity controls.

There are short haired Rycotes worth looking at.

If you look at my Brooklyn Bridge Fireworks video on Vimeo (see EX1 clips section) you'll see that Bass Pig and I had a discussion about the camera and the ECM680s. He's tested the camera already but I suggested he also test ECM680s.

Vimeo is not a good way to judge many of the audio characteristics since the video goes through a round of audio compression before uploading and then Vimeo compresses it again. Often times compression software does "normalization" as well as some equivalent of limiter and/or AGC type controls.

Note that Bass Pig thought I should bring down the input sensitivity even further than I did and I thought I was being very aggressive.

Originally Posted by Paul Chiu (Post 890907)

got a link to that rycote for the 680s?

Originally Posted by Craig Seeman (Post 890859)

Bass Pig thought I should bring down the input sensitivity even further than I did and I thought I was being very aggressive.

Originally Posted by John Gilmore (Post 891039)

So what did you have it set at Craig?

Originally Posted by Craig Seeman (Post 891146)

-20 ish. Bass Pig suggested I could have dropped it into the teens.