Convenience and ease of handling can be very important. To me the challenge
is getting the recordings, my equipment, a Telinga twin science and Sony
MZ-R50 recorder does every thing I desire except finding the singing birds
in a reasonably quiet area. I often walk for miles carrying the mic and
recorder and am grateful for it's compactness and lightweight.
To me what little difference there is in quality between my Sony and a
larger and heavier recorder is not important.
Cornell is very satisfied with the quality of my equipment, as am I.
So much for my two cents worth,
My best to all,
Jim Morgan
Prescott, AZ
At 10:50 AM 7/4/02 EDT, Laura wrote:
>I, like Rich, turned up at the Cornell field recording class with use a Sony
>minidisc recorder as well as a Marantz cassette tape recorder. I learned on
>both, but during the course spent most of my time learning on the Marantz.
>It was SO easy to screw up levels with it (virtually impossible on the
>minidisk), and the danged thing is so bulky, that I find that I've only
taken
>it out a couple of times since the course, while my minidisk comes with me
>everywhere. I want to shoot some identical sounds into both to compare
>spectrographs, but to my ear the minidisk recordings are purer (no
background
>tape hiss) and no loss for improper level settings.
>
>Laura Erickson
>
>Journey North science writer
>http://www.learner.org/jnorth/current.html
>Duluth, MN
>
>www.forbirds.com
>
>"There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of the
>birds...There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of
>nature--the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the
>winter.
>
> --Rachel
>Carson
>
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