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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