> 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.
I wish! I also have a Sennheiser K6 ME67 but mine is rated at 16 dBA. 10
dBA would be nice! Maybe you read the specifications wrongly, or maybe the
specifications have recently been upped without me noticing?
Vicki Powys
Australia
on 17/2/04 8:35 AM, feith at wrote:
> 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?).
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> thanks,
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> John Feith
> Madison, WI
> Bird Song Ear Training Guide CD
> Who Cooks for Poor Sam Peabody?
> www.caculo.com/birdsongs
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> "Microphones are not ears,
> Loudspeakers are not birds,
> A listening room is not nature."
> Klas Strandberg
> Yahoo! Groups Links
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