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Re: LS-10 plus DPA 4060

Subject: Re: LS-10 plus DPA 4060
From: "Bernie Krause" bigchirp1
Date: Sat Nov 14, 2009 7:12 am ((PST))
Used a SD Mix-pre, Michael. The combo was truly
remarkable...especially when the audio files (recorded at 44.1/24bit)
were played back through a very elaborate Ambisonic system with 16
speakers.

Bernie


On Nov 14, 2009, at 6:50 AM, Michael Raphael wrote:

> Hi Bernie,
>
> How did you provide phantom to the mics?  Did you use an external
> pre-amp and feed the line input on the LS-10?
>
> I am looking for a small recorder like the olympus recorders or the
> New Sony record to feed with a line output from my Sound Devices
> MP-2 to use with my DPA 4060s.
>
> Best,
> Michael
>
> On Nov 14, 2009, at 9:07 AM, Bernie Krause wrote:
>
>> When in the UK working with Chris Watson last week, I tried a pair of
>> his DPA 4060 (hi sens) lav omni mics mounted on each shoulder.
>> Earlier
>> in the week, I had tried to record wave action at the shore of the
>> North Sea with the regular LS-10 mics. Because of the 90 degree
>> spread
>> between capsules, the phase cancellation at the high end of the
>> spectrum was quite noticeable. However, with the shoulder-to-shoulder
>> spread of the DPAs, that all disappeared, the low end of the wave
>> action was present, and the discrimination, detail, and depth was
>> pretty impressive. So much so that I've just bought a pair.
>>
>> Bernie
>>
>> On Nov 13, 2009, at 10:02 PM, Dan Dugan wrote:
>>
>>>> Raimund Specht's tests show that the preamp noise is the
>>>> same for the two machines.
>>>
>>> Last weekend I did my first recording with my shoulder-mounted
>>> Telinga EM-23 mics into my LS-10. Gain was high-5 or 6. The
>>> recording was noticeably noisier than the same mics with a Sharp MD-
>>> MS722, gain L-15. I was planning to replace our Sharp MDs with
>>> LS-10s, but now I'm not so sure. I'll try low gain and a higher pot
>>> setting before I decide.
>>>
>>> -Dan Dugan
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>> sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie
>>> Krause
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> Krause
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