At 9:56 AM +0000 2/6/09, justinasia wrote:
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>XLR-1 > SONY PCM-D50 (total $870, about 0.89kg)
What's an XLR-1? Do you mean Art Phantom II or Rolls PB224?
>Sound Devices mixpre > Olympus LS-10 (total $950, about 1.04kg)
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>They both should give me the option of using the recorder alone, or
>with XLR capability.
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>For this though I am unclear on 2 points:
>1) How does the line input sound quality compare between the SONY and
>Olympus? (Enough to notice with the AT-3032?)
No appreciable difference.
We've gone full circle. I'll stick with my original suggestion: the
Fostex FR2-LE should you decide now or later you will need phantom
and low noise performance for mics like the AT-3032's. The extra
bulk, wire mess and cost are more of an issue than the slightly
larger size of the Fostex. Think, "professional sound recorder, not
'iPod."
>2)Comparing the MIXPRE and SONY PCM-D50 preamps:
>I am not sure how to understand the noise rating for the micpre, which
>says on their website "Equivalent Input Noise:
>-126 dBu (-128 dBV) maximum (150 ohm source, flat weighting, 22 - 22
>kHz bandwidth, gain control set at 50% or higher, phantom power off)".
>
>Can we compare this figure directly with the figures on the Avisoft chart?
><http://www.avisoft.com/recordertests.htm>http://www.avisoft.com/recordertests.htm
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>On the chart, the SONY PCM-D50 is A-weighted -126dBu and unweighted
>-124dBu. I'm not sure which to compare it to. Either way it seems not
>much different, although I thought the Mixpre should be much better
>than the D50's mic preamps. Does anyone have the experience to compare
>the two?
You will hear a tiny bit of D50 pre noise hiss "behind" that of the
self noise of the AT-3032's. You get no noise performance
improvement with the Mix Pre over the Fostex FR2-LE.
Recordists used to have to buy external pres because pro recorder
noise performance cost $2K and more. Today, it costs ~$600USD. With
this in mind, I feel its not a too bad of a simplification to think
of external pres as an unfortunate, expensive "fix" if one has bought
a recorder with noisy mic pres. You are not in that position. Rob D.
>Many thanks
>Justin
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