Dear all,
I have been reading many posts about preamp noise and microphones
self-noise (including an interesting thread "new recorder - mic pre
factors" =96
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/naturerecordists/message/18839),
but I still cannot figure out what gear to buy.
I have narrowed to Marantz PMD-620 and Microphone Madness MM-BSM-8 in
ear binaural mics, with stock capsules (not Sennheiser MKE-2
capsules =96
http://www.microphonemadness.com/products/mmtrunathook.htm).
My newbie questions are:
(a) If I were to record chamber music at a concert hall with a
Marantz PMD-620 + MM-BSM-8, there would be any perceptible hiss from
the mics or preamps?
(b) There would be a lesser amount of hiss with MKE-2 Sennheiser
capsules option?
(c) If a choose MKE-2 Sennheiser capsules, would be better to buy,
for instance, a Sony PCM-D50 (which I presume has a better preamp
than PMD-620)? Would the MKE2 self-noise (~27dB) be capable of
masking the flash recorder preamp?
(d) Is there any in-ear binaural mic with lower self-noise?
I would appreciate any comments, given the fact that I live in Brazil
and is very hard to test those new devices here.
Best regards,
Jose Luis
> Hi JM--
> In terms of noise performance, the AT-822's "self-noise" [~24dB(A)]
> is likely to be appreciably louder and "mask" much or all of the
mic
> preamps' noise associated with all of these recorders unless the
> PMD620 is much noisier than its predecessors (unlikely). The same
> would probably be true for many, older MD recorders. Based on some
> tests with Hi-MD mic pres, one could begin to hear some preamp
noise
> performance differences when the mics' self noise is lowered into
the
> realm of 12dB(A). Rob D.
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