Dear Ann,<br><br>I am by no means an expert. But these are the things that I would check and consider. Unfortunately, you are very vague about your situation, so it might be the case that you already excluded these:<br><br>
1) Does the Marantz' 670 use sd-cards? I do not know that generation of Marantz very well but, maybe it has issue with certain SD cards. Check if the hiss is there even, if you use the SD card that came with the device.<br>
2) You might have Phantom power on and are running the mic from a battery at the same time (which would be a bad thing anyways).<br>3) The mic is damaged or incompatible for some reason with the Marantz. Check if the hiss is there, if you use other microphones. See this webpage by Bartek Plichta on more of this issue: <a href="http://bartus.org/akustyk/noise_testing.php">http://bartus.org/akustyk/noise_testing.php</a>.<br>
4) You are recording with a mono-mic, but still record on both channels owing to the settings you chose on the Marantz.<br><br>These are but some possibilities, but you might check these until somebody who knows more about these things answers.<br>
<br>All the best of luck with this.<br><br>Frank<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Anna Ash <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:MRALC@westnet.com.au" target="_blank">MRALC@westnet.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt">Dear list members, and recording experts in particular,<br>
We are having difficulty in recording with a Marantz PMD670 in WAV format. We are using a condensor mic, but are still getting unacceptable hiss levels. We can rule out interference from fluorescent lights and a nearby laptop.<br>
Thanks in advance<br>
Anna<br>
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