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By my calculation...put down four carry the one....the Zoom noise went from -57 to -84. It's still there, but is blown away by the new, louder noise value from the FetHead.

Koz

The first is with the Fethead and the Zoom's dial set at 4 1/2. The second is without the Fethead and the dial set at 9. Right. And we should be crystal clear the goal of using the FetHead is to allow you to reduce the dial from 9 to 4-1/2. It's a twenty-some-odd dB volume boost gain block. That is...

Rather than guessing at it from multiple time zones away, record a simple 20 second voice test and post it here on the forum. http://www.kozco.com/tech/audacity/TestClip/Record_A_Clip.html Don't process anything. Just record, stop and export a WAV sound file. Follow the details in that instruction. ...

Unsurprisingly, the "noise" wandered all over the place. But you have to be there. You can't leave and cut that room tone into your performance. Your body is part of the sound dampening in the room. The room noise will actually be worse if you're not there. Isn't this fun? A recent post f...

I had the "mono mix" function enabled, which seems to have a built-in pad. Mono Mix on the Zoom? I didn't know the Zoom had that. That's not an unusual feature of mono mix. It assumes you're feeding both inputs and want to produce a mixdown to one sound channel without overload distortion...

I'll listen right after you post the sound file.

Koz

Chains is listed in the keyboard shortcuts in Audacity Preferences.
One problem is you have to miss the existing shortcuts—or reroute them.

P is already assigned to Play/Pause, so that's an important one.

Koz

A sister posting to this one is able to live record at almost textbook conditions. Process in Audacity and out the door. No Noise Reduction. So the Audacity internal noises are normally not significant.

Koz

IT WAS THE HARD DRIVE MAKING THIS HUMMING NOISE!! Isn't that fun? My hum was hiding for six months. Normal human ears auto-filter room noises. It's only when you hear your environment playing back to you does it occur to you how noisy everything is. there is still some white noise when I turn the m...

There it is.
Make sure your Zoom is set for 48v phantom power.

Koz