Thank you much Rob,
Glad to hear my H2 may provide me with sufficient recordings. I am not sure
that in my initial tests with the recorder I ever got close enough to my
subjects. I am excited to catch the next opportunity to give it a shot. It
is a little wet today in Atlanta due to Tropical storm Ida, should have som=
e
bette conditions towards the weekend.
Nathan
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Rob Danielson <> wrote:
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> At 11:09 AM -0500 11/10/09, Nathan Gorman wrote:
> >Hello Robin,
> >Thank you for your work on comparing recorders. In working with the H2, =
is
> >there any external shotgun mic set up that worked? I would love to be ab=
le
> >to use my H2, but I cannot seem to pin point the sounds I am looking for
> >while excluding the sounds I do not want.
>
> Hi Nathan--
> Shotgun mics still need to be quite close in
> order to get desirable isolation between
> foreground and background sounds. No real magic
> in them. Parabolic dishes are quite a bit better
> but if you are addressing your project of
> recording natural sounds in an urban park,
> recording early Sunday mornings and on holidays
> will probably help more.
>
> Pocket recorders can make great recordings if the
> built-in mics are really close, I'd securely
> attach H2's in popular perches and make long
> duration takes-- in other words-- let the
> subjects come to the mics. A technical advantage
> an attentive birder has.
>
> You can buy a light weight ladder and several
> H2's and to spot around the park for a fraction
> of the cost of a good dish. Make some
> bark-colored jackets to make the H2's slightly
> less conspicuous?
>
> The H2 is a good choice for long duration
> recording as it seems to handle sequential files
> and power shut-downs reliably. I'd start-off
> using medium sensitivity at the default setting
> of "100" an record at 24 bits. Rob D.
>
>
> > Everything I read about the H2 said external
> >equipment created too much noise from the body
> >of the recorder. Would the H2 have any ability
> >to pinpoint specific sounds in
> >nature and if so how? Thank you in advance for any feed back.
> >
> >Have a great day!
> >Nathan Gorman
> > <nbg1909%40gmail.com>
> >4040-408-2527
> >
> >On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Robin <<robin%40r=
obinparmar.com>>
> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> The articles have been updated to make the criteria even clearer. As R=
ob
> >> pointed out, the consideration of EIN in the second article was out of
> >> context, since the main criterion there is portability and the use of
> the
> >> internal microphones.
> >>
> >> A fuller treatment of the M-Audio MicroTrack II and Zoom H2 has been
> added.
> >>
> >> The third article will consider sound quality as the primary criterion=
.
> >>
> >> -- robin
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> >
> >"While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
> >sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause
> >Yahoo! Groups Links
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