Is there any noise pick-up on the internal mic from the tape motor?
No, which is very strange. When the camera is recording, I can hear a definite noise from the tape drive, I’d say it’s a buzzing-type sound which I can hear from up to a foot away in a quiet room. Remarkably, this noise does NOT come out on the soundtrack. I used the internal microphone both with AUTO gain control, and manual control with the gain all the way up, in a quiet room. I could hear no trace of the tape transport sound on the soundtrack when I played it back. Yet the microphone does pick up other sound well. I can only assume the microphone is directional and sound from the rear of the microphone, where the camera is, is not picked up. I just tried the experiment in a closet to muffle even the faint outside traffic sounds. My voice was deafeningly loud on the recording, but when I was quiet, I could hear no motor noise. Correction: there was a little motor buzz-noise when I held the recorder near the door (a large, flat, hard surface). My theory is the sound coming off the ta
