Hello, sorry for the delay in this reply.
Thank you very much Katy, Martyn, for the information and link.
Thank you Walter, too, for explaining your setup. It is exactly what
I would like to know, as a beginer: particular setups that you
experienced and recommend.
Answering your questions, I have a figure of eight MKH with a MKH 50.
My interest is mainly to record isolated bird calls (in M-S with a
decoder in the field or after at home in a computer)in very silent
places.
I forget to mention that I have a TC-D7 recorder, too.
I suppose going far in the field, without access to power for
charging batteries, perhaps 2 or 3 days, perhaps 6 to 8 eights hours
per day.
I made this list of choices for a setup:
pair of mics +
Sound Devices Mix Pre/302/MM-1/ Apogee Mini Mp/Sonosax SX-BD1/DPA
MMA6000/Benchmark Mic-Man Jr./RME ADI-2/RME QuadMic/Aeta Audio
PSP3/PSC Alpha Mix/M3/Rolls Mx442/Shure FP33/FP24/Wendt X2/ Grace
Lunatec V3/Apogee Mini Me/Benchmark-Sonic AD2000/Mytek Stereo 192
ADC (I think this list is still incomplete)
+recorder
And, of course, the possibility of using the preamp and AD conversion
in the recorder alone (TCD-D7/8/10/ Tascam DAP1/HHB Portadisc/Fostex
FR2/Sound Devices 722).
(I do not consider here exceptionally expensive units like Cantar X,
Deva V or Nagra V)
I agree that the ideal solution is a recorder alone, but it seems
that the problem is in the preamplification, and for that reason an
external pre is recommended.
In my case, for example, I had decided purchasing a Lunatec V3, but I
was adviced in another forum that the farther you are from the
source, the more high frecuency mist the V3 impart to a recording,
and that this may disappoint me.
Then, I thought in some of the pres from SD, but I could read, too,
that some people don=B4t like the sound of Jensen transformers...and
so on.
Here is when recommendations from experienced people is so valuable.
Walter, you gave me one solution: using a HHB Portadisc alone, and
sometimes with a SD MP2 (for M-S decoding, I suppose)
Anyone more could share experiences with particular setups, supposed
the situation mentioned ?(recording isolated bircalls, in a very
silent place, with M-S technique)
Thanks in advance,
Daniel
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