Gosh thank you all for such good advice! I don't need to re-invent the whee=
l now=85
I guess I'll get the Fr2-LE and just get recording, keep an eye out for the=
AEA MS 38 Lite,
and maybe have a pop at the Sowter home-brew.
And thanks for the master-tips from Walt, as ever :-)
Pro-Audio gear is a bit difficult to find here in NZ, at least at prices co=
mparable to what
I'm used to from Europe. But that's made up for by the unique avian fauna!
Many thanks,
Connor
--- In Walter Knapp <> wrote:
>
> Posted by: "Connor Walsh"
>
> > How do any of you manage monitoring M-S in the field?
>
> I set the gain on the two mics independently for the best recording
> using the recorder's metering, and then monitor the mid in mono. I
> started out using a SD MP2 and monitoring the stereo, but found it was
> too tempting to start fiddling with the gain to adjust the stereo field
> and that would lead to one channel being recorded weakly. Plus, of
> course, that was another piece of equipment to cart around.
>
> I decode later on the computer and adjust the stereo field then. M/S
> allows you to have a range of stereo fields. Of course the undecoded M/S=
> is what goes into my archive copies. The stereo field is a derivative
> and I may back it up too, but it's not the "original".
>
> Walt
>
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