Dannie Carsen wrote:
> I've been reading the posts here and realized there is a lot of
> expertise among this crew in microphone matches to equipment and
> types of recording. I'm just buying a Sony MZ-R50, with some great
> advice from Walter Knapp about how to start out with equipment and
> usage. I'm going to be using a borrowed parabolic to record bird
> sounds. However, I thought it would also be good to have an
> inexpensive mono or stereo electret microphone. Does anyone have any
> suggestions about microphones suitable for nature "soundscape"
> recording? I thought I would use the recordings to provide a
> background to birding slide shows and backpacking slide shows.
For soundscapes you probably want to go stereo. The one I usually
recommend is the Sony ECM-MS957. By watching Ebay it can be had
semi-inexpensive, and stands above most of the mics in it's price class.
It is better than the similar looking ECM-MS907.
Do note that this will be a mic for local ambiance. If pushed with high
gain it's mic self noise will become evident (true of most all
inexpensive choices).
Walt
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