u/djscoox

I recently got a Tascam DR-40XP to sample and bring real-world sounds into my DAW. Yesterday I tried to record the impulse response of an underground parking lot, using a balloon pop as my impulse, and I'm not happy with the results.

I popped the balloon about 4 meters from the Tascam. I brought the recordings into my DAW later and I noticed noise floor was quite prominent initially, but as soon as the balloon pops, the noise floor disappears. It sounds like a compressor with a fast attack and a very slow release. If I wait after popping the balloon, the noise floor slowly builds up again. Why does this happen?

Edit: Thanks for all the replies. Turns out the culprit was a "normalize" setting in my media player. This setting was resulting in quiet passages being normalized (boosted). With the option disabled, everything is working as expected. I feel as stupid as I feel relieved.

I'm only using 4 of the 12 available channels of my NVR. In the Andriod App I can hide unused channels. Is there a way to hide them in the desktop app?

https://preview.redd.it/60tasmpva20h1.png?width=331&format=png&auto=webp&s=a5a1bb6659b09e46b5c93f25ba7b4704dbfe4478

Couple of questions:

1. I'm configuring this for my parents. I would like the siren on a given camera to be enabled automatically between 23:00 and 07:00, so I set up a schedule accordingly. Say at 23:30 I need to dash out to pick up a bunch of firewood or what not, and I turn it off, but then I forget to turn it back on. What happens? Looking at the app UI, it looks like sliding the Siren switch off disables the schedule entirely. Can it really be THIS dumb? I was hoping there was a way to temporarily override the siren, which seems like a reasonable thing to want to do.

https://preview.redd.it/94ib6p61v5zg1.png?width=774&format=png&auto=webp&s=e5a5ef834c9a945bf864750a466838f6b5ab2c21

2. The absence of sunset/sunrise automatic settings is a glaring omission. A search on this sub reveals it had been brought up 5 years ago and I emailed tech support about it over a year ago so I'm guessing Reolink viewes this as ultra mega low priority. BTW this feature is available in cheaper brands like Tapo.

I said it before and I'll say it again: Reolink consistently disregards its customers, makes half-decent hardware and very bad software.