At 7:41 PM -0400 8/31/06, Walter Knapp wrote:
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>If you are looking at omni you might want to follow what Dan is finding
>on the AT3032. Their spec is not that good for self noise but he's
>reporting it does better than that.
And credit to Eric Benjamin too who made the surprise discovery on
his test bench.
> I tried a loaned pair briefly,
>modifying my MKH-20 SASS to hold them (made shim tubes). There's a photo
>of them in my mod SASS page in the SASS, and a couple comparison
>recordings to the MKH-20 are linked:
>http://frogrecordist.home.mindspring.com/docs/mod_sass.html#AT3032
>
>I have a feeling that in very quiet sites the AT3032 will not be as good
>as the MKH-20 for ambiance recording. Did not have the opportunity of a
>quiet site when I had them here.
I did several ears-only run-throughs. The 3032's files are louder
which itself is a surprise. After some volume balancing, I found the
mics much, much closer in qualities than I would have ever guessed.
The variation in the background content in the home location masked
all of the distinctions I thought I had made. At Whitetail, both mics
endure the Hi-Hz concentrations of the( cricket?) frogs quite
similarly. Is there some 8Kish hiss in the right channel on the 20's
that's not there in the 3032's? Thanks for making and sharing this
extremely interesting comparison. I'm enjoying becoming familiar with
17' Tripod/SASS characteristics too. Rob D.
>
>
>Walt
>
>
"Microphones are not ears,
Loudspeakers are not birds,
A listening room is not nature."
Klas Strandberg
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