wrote:
> hello all,
>
> Walter, your website is wonderful !!!
>
> i added it to my wikilinks on http://www.kalerne.net/
> if other recordists have webpages, feel free to add it on the phonography=
links
> section and please consider it as a public space.
You might want to note that your link to my frog pages has a error,
correct link is:
http://wwknapp.home.mindspring.com/GAFrog.Toad.html
You have some extra tacked on to the link that causes it to fail.
> two equipment questions...
> what people here think about :
>
> - the difference between theses preamplifiers : sound device mp-2 and the=
eaa
> psp-3 (http://www.aetausa.com/Pages/PSP3-hm.html). i am thinking about it=
for my
> setup (a TCD-D8 + 2 akg SE300B+CK91)...
In a quick look, a few notes:
No metering, just a overload led. The MP-2 has metering. A overload led
gives you no real warning. The MP-2 has a overload led as well as the
metering.
Does not appear to have limiting. The MP-2 has a fairly decent limiter.
With indicator led for when it's limiting.
No headphone monitor. The MP-2 has it's own headphone out with it's own
volume control. The MP-2, when being used with M/S is capable of feeding
a decoded stereo output to the headphones while sending the undecoded
M/S signal to the recorder. Thus making all the channel balancing they
have for M/S unnecessary as it can be done later. It was this M/S
capability that I wanted when I bought my MP-2.
MP-2 has two phantom voltages available.
MP-2 has a low cut filter with two levels.
I'm sure there's more, that's just in a brief look at it's literature.
It's a pretty basic pre.
> - the shotgun capsule CK98 for the AKG blueline serie (SE300B). i am thin=
king
> about it for insects and frogs recordings...
It appears to have low sensitivity of only 10 mv/PA, which would require
much more amplifier gain. The self noise appears to be 17dBA, which is
moderately high for nature recording. Couple that with the extra gain
and you may see a lot of self noise in your recordings.
Walt
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