Greetings-
I currently use a Sennheiser K6-ME67 long shotgun microphone and I'm
mosly pleased with it. Its self-noise is rated at 10 dBA.
Senheisser's MKH70 noise floor is rated at 5 dBA. Does anybody have
recordings done with these 2 microphones of the exact same source in
a super-quiet environment? I'd like to match the levels and hear what
the microphone self-noise sounds like in both mikes (one costing
$500, the other $2000...is a 5dBA noise difference worth $1500?). I
think microphone companies should publish WAV recordings of the self-
noise of their mikes while capturing a pre-determined, normalized SPL
sound. The self-noise specs don't tell you the frequency spectrum of
the mike's noise (i.e. a single self-noise dB value is not very
useful - anybody from Sennheiser listening?).
I am also curious about the Neumann KMR82i- anybody prefer it to the
MKH70? Anybody in the Madison, Wisconsin area have fancy shotgun
mikes that I could test-drive?
I know that 80% of the time other background noise such as leaves
rustling or a road 1 mile away will often be much louder than the
mike's self-noise. But I can be a lazy sound recordist and am often
much more than 30 feet away from a singing bird- it would be nice to
be able to record distant sounds without microphone noise in those
rare windless and quiet conditions sound recordists dream of.
thanks,
John Feith
Madison, WI
Bird Song Ear Training Guide CD
Who Cooks for Poor Sam Peabody?
www.caculo.com/birdsongs
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