Thank you Matt,
To my ear the smaller recorders sounded very similar. The Sennheiser
mics however, had a deeper and wider feel, a greater sense of 3D space.
Kevin
On Jul 17, 2009, at 8:11 PM, Matt Blaze wrote:
> I finally got around to making simultaneous recordings (of a very
> boring suburban soundscape) with a sampling of current generation
> handheld recorders:
>
> * Nagra ARES-MII
> * Sony PCM-D1
> * Sony PCM-D50
> * Olympus LS-10
> * Zoom H4n
> * Sennheiser MKH-800 Mid-Side pair on a Nagra VI (OK, not exactly
> pocket size, but a useful baseline)
> * A mystery mic that I'll describe later
>
> There is nothing interesting or remarkable about the recordings except
> as comparisons with one another. Otherwise they're the aural
> equivalent of watching paint dry.
>
> The soundscape was recorded in a suburban backyard in Berkeley, CA, on
> a quiet weekday afternoon, with (mostly) distant sounds of dogs,
> birds, children, doors closing, cars, airplanes, trains, and so on, in
> a very mild breeze. All the recorders were mounted on a stand and
> equipped with
> "tribble" style furballs.
>
> This environment is not particularly demanding, with a level of
> ambient background noise high enough to mask most of the microphone
> self-noise, for example. But it's fairly typical of the conditions
> under which many of us record, so I figured it was worth sharing.
>
> For whatever it's worth, the audio can be found at:
> http://www.crypto.com/audio/shootout/
>
> -matt
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