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Re: headroom and saturation and mono recordings

Subject: Re: headroom and saturation and mono recordings
From: ""
Date: Sun Sep 10, 2006 10:00 pm (PDT)
 
In a message dated 9/10/2006 9:40:01 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
 writes:

Me too,  but -15dB has proven to be a good setting especially when I'm 
>  pressing the limits with ATAC and 16 bits.  


Dear All,
 
I guess I am a Neanderthal, but I record using the Telinga dish, a Senn MKH  
20 and use a HHB Portadisc. I record in mono and use the stereo to record one  
setting at -10 or so and the other significantly lower. Often I need to 
record  with rapid reaction (this is why I love the 5 second buffer offered by 
the 
HHB)  as the bird may only sing one time and I can't afford a clipped  
recording.  The "second track" has saved me many times. I am not after  really 
pristine recordings, but just ones that are publishable so one can easily  tell 
the 
birds song or call.
 
So, am I in the 20th century?
 
Best,
 
John
John V. Moore Nature Recordings







"Microphones are not ears,
Loudspeakers are not birds,
A listening room is not nature."
Klas Strandberg

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