There is a Telinga called PRO4PIP. It is a very simple device with a 10 mm
electret running on plug in power. Price less than half of PRO5 and 6.
If interested, call Doug about it.
Best wishes,
Klas.
At 11:01 2005-05-24, you wrote:
>At 05:21 AM 5/24/2005 +0000, Ralph Paonessa wrote:
>
> >2. I can't afford a Telinga parabola setup. I currently own an Audio-
> >Technica AT815b shotgun mike that I suspect is not very good quality.
> >Is a Sennheiser ME66 or ME67 with K-6 or K-6P reasonably good for my
> >purposes -- that's about the limit of what I can spend now.
>
> The Sennheisers are 'better' but the AT815b *is* a good quality
> mike - and as a bonus it runs for weeks on a single AA cell. Just plug
> into your minidisc and go. If portability is a question, then a shotgun
> is easier to carry than a parabola.
> Why do you suspect it's "not very good quality"? It may be that
> the mike is not matching up with your recorder, or there is a flaw in the
> recorder mike circuitry. If you want to try repairing the Marantz, you
> might consider getting the Shure A96F Line Matching Transformer which
> changes XLR to a 1/8" plug and I quote from the user guide, "It increases
> the signal level from the microphone, provides a balanced input, and
> prevents distortion due to the d.c. bias typically found in camcorder
> microphone inputs."
>
> If you haven't used it for bird recording, why not try it with a
> new minidisc now? I think you will be pleasantly surprised.
>
> -- Chuck
>
>
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>Loudspeakers are not birds,
>A listening room is not nature."
>Klas Strandberg
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