<I will look into the mic you mentioned, Telinga. What kind of mic is
that?>
The telinga is a parabolic mic; I will let Klaus tell you more from his
website
www.telinga.com
<Do you generally prefer recording with shotgun mics instead of
stereo mics?>
It certainly depends on what I am about to record, Shotgun mics have their
use as does recording in stereo, I like to use various combinations of mics
together in an MS setup or even a couple of Lav mics tied around a tree
trunk. A good combination would be a couple of ECM-55 Sony mics.
My favorite stereo mic combo has to be the mkh-20/mkh-20, I love these mics,
they have to be the best ever made for me!
Listen to Walt's example of the combinations on his frog pages
http://frogrecordist.home.mindspring.com/docs/mic_samples.html
<Also, I wonder if there is any good and relatively affordable system
one could use to record underwater. In theory, it would be amazing to
get the sound of the lava going into the ocean, although I dont even
know how accessible the ocean is at the point where the lava is near
enough to hear. Do you know anything about recording underwater?>
The Type 8011 Hydrophone mic is the only 48 V phantom powered waterproof
microphone specially designed to handle the high sound pressure levels and
the high static ambient pressure in water and other fluids
You can pick this little gem up from here
http://www.dpamicrophones.com/
Let me make a strong point here, you will not be able to drop a microphone
into the sea by a lava tube, one thing it would be highly dangerous and
secondly, the water would be at boiling point, no mic would withstand this.
The bird species in Hawaii or very much on the decline but around high
levels where the mozzies can not reach, there are some wonderful noises; you
will find plenty of endemics around the volcano national park and bird park.
Regards
Martyn
www.naturesound.org
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
|