Recently, several people have asked about recorders that can power pro mics in the field. Here's my choice, with comments about other recorder options. When you need a recorder with sturdy XLR inputs
Thanks for the great review Robin! bu So its hard to monitor the recording with the headphones in the field at level 80-100,..? Some headphones are more efficient. What phones are you trying? e a . K
Here are my needs: Long session outdoor environmental/wildlife recording(12 hour range at mini= mum) at whatever the highest level of quality I can achieve in a lownoise = setting. Recordings must b
I have not had any trouble with my H2 remembering settings. When I was in the field yesterday I turned the recorder on and off several times. I did notice, however, that the settings reset to the def
Rob Four channel, 32 bit recording has been available for some time on some professional DV gear, notable Sony DVCam studio recording decks. Not so bad actually, when handled with care it is equivale
Hi Marc-- Greg provides a very interesting assessment of the Sony camcorder pre weakness. Also encouraging to learn the BBC is behind the mod! http://www.gregjwinter.com/modification2.htm. A 13dB les
Hi Rob When the Sony DV camcorders were evaluated by the BBC some years ago, the picture was deemed OK for broadcast but the audio was not. They made a modification which then require an outboard pre
<snip> Hi Marc-- I've also been surprised by the poor noise performance of some of the Sony camcorder mic pres-- especially with the older, VX-2000 model. Yet, the engineers at Sony built high qualit
Best suggestion is to stay with them, John, at all hours. Sometimes the shrimp let up a little and the propeller cavitation noise from boaters quits long enough for one to capture the sounds of the m
Hello all I have been lurking and reading for quite some time and am VERY new at this= and have a VERY limited budget. I am forced to use free or inexpensive edi= ting and analytical software program
Al-- As was also stated by several people on the mic builders list, the mics you are experimenting with all have high self-noise when used in applications that require high record gain. Gerald White
Sadly, in my experience, the H2's external mic input is considerably noisier than the internal mics are. For quiet subjects, I can recommend the H2 only for use with its internal mics. Zoom is about
Quite a few pocket recorders, the H2 being one, are best-suited for recording robust sounds like music, close mic'd voice. loud settings and loud effects. Yes, when one increases the gain, the self-n
--Thank you, great info. I've actually been listening to that great compar= ison for a while now. The Telinga EMKS-23's sound amazing, but I am on a ve= ry low budget. Which is why I am focusing on
gain. http://www.birds.cornell.edu/MacaulayLibrary/contribute/equipmentOverview.ht stopped at minidisk or noise. not settings. ________________________________________________________________________
P1 At what record level? "10" no pad? One of the factors that makes the DA-P1 harder to compare is its gain structure is possibly very different: http://www.xs4all.nl/~fjkraan/digaud/dap1/MicrophoneC
I believe he's charting the available numbers to make them more interpretable. I notice that Raimund's comment," It is sufficient that the preamplifier noise level is just a few dB's below that of th
Thanks Rob, obviously you have thought a lot about this. But still: I have recordings of atmos only, distant birds and perhaps a woodpecker coming in nearby every 45 sec or so. The mic is a Telinga M
Thanks for the clarifcation Klas. There is myth-busting to do. Last night I came across, http://www.digitraxx.com/ma_dmp3.html Any professional recording engineer will tell you that quality microphon
I received an Art Phantom II unit and added it to the test. Looks as though there are two inexpensive portable phantom power supplies ($45 and $70) that work (at least) with NT1-A's to achieve extrem