Hi Tom
If you keep an eye out on ebay the K6/ME66 combo's
often turn up either from here or from over the pond.
In fact I have seen ones on sale in the USA going for
less than those in the UK. There does seem to be quite
a second hand market in these mics.
Phil
--- tk7859 <> wrote:
> --- In
> "stoatwizard" <> wrote:
>
>
> > The MKE300 is a nice starter mic at a good price,
> and used with the
> > rycote special 190 furry windgag (about GBP30)
> handles a reasonable
> > level of wind and works really well with MD.
> >
> > I'm a fan of this at the entry level - the
> bass-lightness makes it
> > easier to handle in the field and isn't a problem
> for birds, and the
> > mic givs a useful amount of directionality. Here's
> a Blackbird in a
> > wood recorded with a MKE300 and a MZ-NH700
> first-gen HiMD, and a
> > simultaneous recording from the same location
> using a Sennheiser
> > KH30/40 (loads more $$$$)
> >
> >
>
http://www.suffolkbirds.co.uk/article/35/first-law-of-signal-
> > processing
> >
> > That's not to say the MKE300 is the best mic in
> the world, but I can
> > vouch for that particular combination - I have
> many pleasant
> > recordings made with that and it's reasonably
> lightweight and
> > unobtrusive.
> >
>
> Interesting. A couple of weeks ago I bought a
> MKE300D. My thinking
> was this:
>
> I am happy experimenting with my triplet mics made
> up from cheap
> capsules. Results have been very pleasing using
> them in barriers and
> a recently completed 21", plastic, parabolic dish
> microphone is giving
> very good results - strong focussed sound against a
> stereo background.
> However, neither the barrier or the parabolic could
> be described as a
> "grab and go" microphone. I felt the need to have a
> recording system
> that, at a moments notice, I could grab from the
> bench in the utility
> room and be out recording that unusual bird song in
> the garden.
>
> The recorder was no problem - my MZ-RH910 is
> relatively ergonomic. I
> toyed with the idea of a K6/ME66 combo but in the UK
> the retail price
> is 50% more than a pair of matched NT1As. Given my
> interest in
> recording ambience the K6/ME66 looks unattractive at
> that price.
>
> So the MKE300D it was.
>
> So far I'm pleased with the purchase. It sits
> permanently caged in a
> home made suspension/handle/ windjammer. It is no
> match for the
> parabolic triplets but then I won't be taking that
> along too often on
> my regular 5 mile walk.
>
> A big disapointment is that it will not fit on the
> hot shoe of my JVC
> video recorder. I think that hot shoe is an
> in-house item
> specifically for their zoom mic. I therefore have
> to hold the MKE300D
> in one hand and operate the camera with the other -
> probably a good thing.
>
> Well I don't have any excuse now for not taking my
> recording kit along.
>
> Cheers- Tom
>
>
>
>
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