Posted by Arny Krueger on 07/13/07 15:08

"Mark & Mary Ann Weiss" <mweissX294@earthlink.net> wrote in
message news:7_Cfi.319661$NO1.815@fe05.news.easynews.com

> Needless to say, I think Sony has a major issue to
> correct with these cameras. It's worse than the PD150
> hiss problem. In all other respects, the V1U audio is
> acceptable. s/n is pretty good for a camera, but there's
> no excuse to roll off the low end at 1222Hz. Look at
> these results, carefully measured under laboratory
> conditions:
>
> http://www.basspig.com/HVR-V1U_PCM_Audio(DV).htm

You have been mislead by a vastly expanded vertical dB scale.

The actual -3 dB point is about 130 Hz. The rolloff is hard to judge because
of the expanded scale, but does not seem to be overly rapid. Not all that
great, but about an order of magnitude better than you have been mislead to
believe.

This camera won't be all that bad for voice and most music. It is not the
tool of choice for recording big pipe organs, bass guitars or other
instruments with deeper significant bass fundamentals. However, an octave or
two of additional bass could be restored with some well-thought out
equalization.

Just about any vocal mic that is attached to it will have a comparable or
worse bass rolloff.

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