<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)
Remember too that the Sound devices 722 will cost you well over $2000
(I do not consider here exceptionally expensive units like Cantar X, Deva V
or Nagra V)
Don=92t also forget to consider the Marantz PMD-670
Martyn
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-----Original Message-----
From: robleshugodaniel
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 3:52 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [Nature Recordists] What do you recommend
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
"Microphones are not ears,
Loudspeakers are not birds,
A listening room is not nature."
Klas Strandberg
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