zplazm wrote:
> the ME-62, ECM-ms957, and nt3 ... sound like fantastic microphones...
> I've just found out that the MZ-R37 minidisc, as part of cost saving
> features has hat the -20 shelf ommited on the mic normaliser, which
> would have been useful for very loud sounds. i expect that the loud
> nt3 on battery would not be that astoundingly loud as to brickwall
> given mz-r37's lack of a -20 shelf normaliser level, would it? maybe
> i should look for a sharp (with the 24 bits of encoding, yummy) with
> some defects on ebay...mt15 soudns pretty excellent budget gear.
Since to use any of these mics except the Sony you will need to buy or
make a adapter cord, you could build in attenuation into the cord if
necessary. Depending on what you record and which mic you may find it's
not really necessary. I recorded for years with a Sony MZ-R30, which had
the switch, but rarely switched it to the low setting.
All current ATRAC encoding is 24 bit. Though this is only in the
internal processing. It still records 16 bit, but uses bit shifting to
effectively carry through 24 bit. Sony invented this, Sharp copied it
after Sony brought it out. So, it's not unique to the Sharp recorders.
> I'll be really happy to DiY some fluffy material and nylon to make
> wind sheilds and splash guards... (maybe i could make a party suit
> too?)
Study the designs before making. It's not just some material around the
mic, there are designs that work. It's definitely a place where you can
save money.
> there are wonderful places for sound collecting near my house,
> abandoned housing full of gypsy junk, nature reserves, town... this
> is great i'm getting closer. today i sampled a tennis ball bouncing
> down some steps with marvellous rythm and warm wood plank sounds, and
> some cows mooing their head off very loud... and sheep... i'd
> definately do as much ninja nighttime recording as possible too.
>
> I guess i'll use the md preamp, and may try mono to begin, because
> eventually i'll apply lots of panning and stereo delay DSP on
> recorded material.
I think you are going to find that natural environments are not near as
easy to make sound well in this manner.
If you get a pure mono mic and later want stereo, it will require a new
mic. A nt3 pair mixed to mono may work fairly well, if it's been used in
coincident (X-Y) configuration and of course you can use one of them.
The M/S system in the sony mixes perfectly to mono, so you get both mics
in one.
Walt
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>From Tue Mar 8 18:23:13 2005
Message: 12
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 07:13:56 -0800
From: Wild Sanctuary <>
Subject: Re: The abstraction of city ecology
>Wild Sanctuary wrote:
>> Thanks for the article by Stille. I had read it and it is interesting
>> mostly because of it's cryptic defensiveness of human impact. My
>> problem with the basic premise is that, while humans have left their
>> booted footprints deep in the soils of the wild natural everywhere on
>> earth, there was a time (and still is among some few remaining groups
>> of humans such as the Bayaka, the Kaluli, the Pitjanjara, the Jivaro)
>> when we lived more closely connected to the wild and very possibly
>> lived within a kind of biological equilibrium. Within those
>> boundaries, as difficult as it may have been to survive, the natural
>> world offered a kind of solace and place of respite pretty much
>> unknown to most of us more tethered to the urban paradigm (whether or
>> not we live outside of a city).
>
>I saw one more thing here, a somewhat different take. It comes when you
>ask why these folks are studying the city. I've been a biologist, tied
>to the realities of that world for some time. I've watched funding dry
>up more and more. Meanwhile in order to hold a job it's necessary to
>publish. It's hard to think of a research project that will require less
>funds than studying what's just outside your door. Field surveys, even
>in a city require very little in the way of equipment.
I thought of that, too, Walt. You're certainly on target here. I've
got a client who may not be able to find a way to get me to the SE US
this spring to do some field recording for a visitor center project.
>
>
>As a ecologist I don't worry too much about biological equilibrium. That
>implies some sort of steady state ideal. And that's just not how it
>works. Change is the routine of biology. And humans as they are now are
>very transitory. Maybe humans will just be the catalist for a new burst
>of evolutionary activity. They are part of the biological equilibrium,
>such as it is.
I don't mean this as a "steady state" paradigm but rather an evolving
state over the long arc of time where abrupt changes obviously happen
but are certainly more rare.
>
>I'm not impressed with what was found. The biomass is way too low, and
>not self sustaining. I'm certainly not going to expect much of the
>oxygen in my next breath to have come from city plants.
>
Agreed on that one.
Bernie
Wild Sanctuary, Inc.
P. O. Box 536
Glen Ellen, CA 95442
707-996-6677 tel
707-996-0280 fax
http://www.wildsanctuary.com
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