I've been recording birdsong less than a year with a very basic setup.
Olympus DVR WS-400* ($60) (*earlier model)
$50 Sony microphone
Cheap scientific parabola
I guess I mostly just use it to record birdsong I don't recognize or want to
study or document. Nothing fancy.
Here's an example of what I've recorded:
http://soundcloud.com/user3781125/hairy-woodpecker
I don't get great sonagrams:
http://trash-birder.blogspot.com/2009/07/american-redstart-black-and-white.html
http://trash-birder.blogspot.com/2010/03/mystery-sonogram-1.html
I seem to have lost my microphone and now want to buy a new one - should I
replace the one I have or get something better?
What's the next step up and how much better is it? What difference will I
notice?
It seems that serious nature recordists consider entry level to be at least
$500? I can't see how that could be ten times better, but then again you don't
know what you don't know.
Sincerely,
Andrew Albright
Lafayette Hill, PA
"While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause
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