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Subject: Fw: [Nature Recordists] diy mic outdoor enclosure
From: "John Lundsten" lundsten_john
Date: Sat Nov 28, 2009 10:22 pm ((PST))
| 2nd go at posting
|
| "Rob Danielson"  wrote
|
|| RODE D-PowerPlug  seems like a good option ....
|| As a phantom-powered, 20dB gain preamp,
|| the D-PowerPlug isn't overly quiet (-116 dBu A weighted), but perhaps
|| quiet enough for your ribbon mics.
|
| This maybe a good option but I have my doubts. I would be interested in a
| comparison between a 24bit recording of the ribbon mics one with the Rode=

D
| & the other without but raised 20dB in post. My suspicion is that so long=

as
| there is good low level info as you get with 24bit, just raising the may=

be
| very low lever recording may well give lower noise & otherwise give as
good
| if not better results.
| The thing is ribbon mics don't really have a noise figure, the noise you=

end
| up with will be down to the basic thermal noise of the source Z and how
| "well balanced" the system is. IE there will be signals at the micro-volt
| level you wish to drag up in level, so RF, hum etc picked up on the cable
| needs to be exceptionally low, compared to a more robust signal level.
|
|
| John Lundsten
|
|











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