I have tried the Sound Kit from Kit room because I was looking for compact field recording kit for camping. It has Zoom H4N and Rode NTG2 shotgun with accessories all in one bag. Therefore, I was thinking that would be a nice option for camping. So I borrowed the kit and did some field recording in South Bank. But I found few problem of this kit.
Firstly, the bag actually quite big compare to the H5 kit. The recorder itself is tiny but NTG2 is too long. To fit all the gear in, the sound bag is a bit too big for camping. Secondly, the headphone amp quality is not really good. Although South Bank is a noise environment, I can’t hear the shotgun sound clearly (it also because of the headphone in the kit). Thirdly, the mic preamp in the H4N is not good as well which have a lot of noise when I pull up the gain.
Finally, I choose some of the recording and tried to create a small pieces which I basically used the EQ to cut some of the noise and also tried DearReality and Circle Doppler plugins in some of the tracks. I found the recoding of approaching the church bell is quite interesting. That itself are like the organised composition. From hear it from distance with different chatting and footstep sound passing by, and finally can hear the bell clearly.