Thread: Audio Technica AT897 with small consumer grade low end DVR

No it is a "Toy" Sony Digitial Voice Recorder ICD-UX200, it doesn’t have Manual Recording gain control, it has only three sensitivity setting: S-High, High, and Low. AT897 shall be almost 1 feet away from speaker. Now what do you think?

Thank you for all, AT897 is working in ICD-UX200.I patched XLR Mono Balanced to TRS Stereo unbalanced 1/8” like this:
XLR Pin 1 to unconnected
XLR pin 2 to Mini Jack tip and ring
XLR pin 3 to mini-jack sleeve.
• I used 4.7 µf non-polar 50V capacitor between XLR pin 2 and mini jack tip/ring
• I didn’t match their impedances (AT896 = 300Ω and UX200 = <3000Ω). Guys me that told impedance was Ok.
• I didn’t use any attenuator or preamp.
• Recorder’s Low Cut filter is on
• I record it at “ST” High-quality stereo recording mode (44.1 kHz/192 kbps)
• Recorder was set to “High” sensitivity however “high” is undesirably High and low is too much low, as you have told me before
• Microphone 80Hz filter is on
• Mic is almost ½ feet away from me
• I record it in Room (12’x10’x10’) with Furniture

My problem is that why it is creating hiss. How I get rid of hiss from recoding?:
• Is it capacitor problem (i.e. 4.7 µf non-polar 50V)
• Is it impedance mismatch

Or if there is nothing wrong in above two things then which is best software to denoise this type of hiss:
• Izotope RX
• Wave lab 7 or something else

I’m complete novice. I mistakenly download Cubase 5 but it doesn’t have any denoiser.

Please check my hiss test:
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