I'll be brief:
1500 USD:
For headphone replay - get two simple 10 mm electrets running on plug in
power (Radio Shack style) which you fasten close to your ears. (They run
directly on the MD recorder voltage). This is also the equipment you carry=
when walking light.
Replaying, using headphones, you will "be there" on spot again. But you
cannot get really transparent recordings, because of the self-noise of the=
mic's.
Approx 50 USD?
For loudspeaker atmo, get two CAD 179. They are very low noise,
disadvantage is that they are bulky and heavy and need phantom power.
You can use them for X-Y stereo, MS stereo and Blumlein.
Approx 500 USD?
Then a phantom power supply, Rob Danielson knows which one - and a MiniDisc=
or perhaps a Edirol R1.
Perhaps 400 USD....
Then you have some money left to buy tripod fastenings, make windshields
and suspensions etc. If you are going to travel and make important stuff, I=
recommend that you use the money to get back-up's - an extra minidisc
recorder and an extra CAD179.
Instead I could recommend two R=F6de NT1A's, but then you are stuck with XY=
stereo only.
Your main focus must be very low microphone self-noise and good windshields=
.
Klas.
At 22:10 2005-07-30, you wrote:
>I have been interested in recording "environmental sounds" ever since I
>stood in Rocky
>Mountain National Park and heard the calls of Elk echoing off the
>mountains making a
>spectacular 3D sonic picture in my head. It was an amazing experience. I=
>would like to buy a
>beginning set of equipment in the $1500 range that would let me record in=
>2 (eventually
>more) channels of ambient sound of things like insects in a summer wheat
>field, a stream
>flowing by and birds calling, owls calling to each other at night, the
>call to prayer from the
>mosques in Istanbul etc. I would like to play this back via headphones or=
>my stereo. I know
>practically zero about recording but then I was pointed to this list I
>thought this might be a
>great place to learn what I should be looking for, understand terminology,=
>get pointers on
>techniques etc.
>
>By reading old postings I see that the Nature Sounds Society is also a
>good place to start.
>
>Any suggestions on equipment for my ambient sounds goal?
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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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Telinga Microphones, Botarbo,
S-748 96 Tobo, Sweden.
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