justinasia wrote:
> 1) Just your PCM-M10, which is a great product and has nice quiet mics
> already, relative to what it is. This for super portability. Then
> 2) Fostex FR2le with those nice AT mics. Relatively good battery life,
> lightweight for the quality, and all in one unit. This for the really good
> recording.
>
> I would think this would save you a lot of hassle, time to set up, tangles,
> awkwardness and so on, and should also be better sound-wise.
Exactly what I would do. In fact it's what I do do. I am not a fan of
harnessing external pres to cheap recorders as this adds too many points of
failure, doesn't save money and doesn't result in any improved sound quality
over taking a better recorder in the first place.
A portable recorder means never having to miss a recording. I generally carry
some cheap Panasonic cap mics to use with PIP, since they allow stereo/binaural
recordings with much better sound stage. In my short experience the omnis in
the M10 have a rather flat / thin stage. Though they are noisier, I actually
prefer the built-in mics on the Panasonic LS-10.
For critical recordings I use the Fostex with 2x AT3032, though this requires a
mic stand, stereo bar and (at some point in my future) a baffle. Hardly
something you'd take out on a hunch.
-- robin
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