< As Oryoki says, wildlife sound recordists would not normally require an
attenuator on their recorder. I assume the attenuator on the MD DR7 can be
switched off??
Absolutely Viki, I never use the facility just pointing out what the
Minidisk player has, if you want the specs on this have a look at the link
to http://www.minidisc.org/part_Sharp_MD-DR470+DR480+DR7.html
Martyn :-)
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From: Vicki Powys
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 8:23 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [Nature Recordists] Re: Sharp minidisc MD DR7
on 25/11/03 2:12 AM, oryoki2000 at wrote:
> Martyn Stewart wrote:
>> ...the DR-7 has manual record levels
>> and an attenuator built in...
Martyn,
As Oryoki says, wildlife sound recordists would not normally require an
attenuator on their recorder. I assume the attenuator on the MD DR7 can be
switched off?
I should mention here that my enquiries re the MD DR7, and ways of
connecting such a machine to a pro-mic, is all part of some research that
Bill Rankin and I are doing, so that we can come up with some
recommendations for the members of our Australian Wildlife Sound Recording
Group, as regards equipment suitable for beginners, and/or backup equipment,
lightweight bushwalking equipment etc. The critical thing is that the
equipment needs to be available in Australia. We have found a single
distributor for the MD DR7, there are plenty of outlets for Sennheiser mics,
Shure adapters should be available here too, I'm pretty certain they are.
Rich Peet wrote:
> Let me guess, you shorted pins 2 and 3 because of the effect of being
> down under and things work different there like the water going down
> the drain the opposite direction?
No Rich, wiring it wrong was just pure blind ignorance on my part! Thanks
for enlightening me and I'm pleased that the K6 was forgiving.
So far as this transformer business is concerned though (high impedance to
low impedance), can anyone else give a definitive answer on whether a proper
transformer (e.g. Shure) really would improve the signal-to-noise ratio, or
does it only 'make the sound louder'? I understand the FEL pre-amps
(available in UK) would improve the signal-to-noise levels, but this would
be an "extra" for enthusiasts, depending on what they were wanting to
record.
Vicki Powys
Sound Editor
Australian Wildlife Sound Recording Group
>
> Seriously. Your cable worked just because it is a k6 series mic. You
> are recording "- to ground" rather than "+ to ground". Not all mics
> will be so forgiving and therefore the standard of wiring "+ to
> ground" for an unbalanced configuration. Just so that you don't have
> to worry in trying out other mics I would recommend that you correct
> it back to the standard.
>
> As far as the transformer, glad it worked. You should see a higher
> output when you match the impediance better but it probably wont
> translate to any more signal to noise when it comes down to the edit
> of actual sounds with this particular mic.
>
> Rich Peet
>
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