Hello again,
Things are finally taking shape, I have built a homemade
parabolic mic using a 21" Telinga Dish and a ECM T-145 mic. With this
i am planning on using an MZ-R30 minidisc recorder which i purchased
from E-bay. I wasn't to delighted when i received the MZ-R30, first
problem I found was that the rechargable LIP-12(h) was dead as could
be, then i found that the recorder would not charge the said battery,
another option was to use regular AA battries, but i did not receive
a battery case that would snap onto the sie of the recorder and none
of this stuff could be purchased here in Canada. Therefore i had a
recorder that was not portable. I have since gotten around this
problem where as my son made me up some external power packs from 2
AA battries , 2 wires were soldered to the 2 contacts on the side of
the recorder where the battery case wuld go, and to wires were
solderd to the batteries, bullet clips were joined in the middle of
this for easy battery change. So now i have my recorder portable.
Last night i built the homemade parabolic and tested outside, i came
across a couple small problems. First i was getting what sounded like
feed back, I was thinking that this was because of where my recorder
was only about 2 feet from my dish, so I added a ten foot extension
to move further from the dish. This has gotten rid of the feedback
sound but now I am getting a different sound which is hard to
explain, it is like hiss or low hum, i was calling it the sound of
silence, I am not sure. I was recording in Mono/Manual Recording with
my rec level nearly max, I was wondering if it has anything to do
with my recording level, i read some where that between 5 and 6 was a
good setting for this recorder. Could someone please tell me what
would be a good level. One last small thing, what would be something
that i could used to cover my Telinga dish for wind protection and
what could i use for a small mic which i have (that is very very
sensative) for wind protection, I have no time to order anything for
these because I am heading out on my first recording trip tommorrow
and will be gone for up to three weeks?
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