Howdy Friends,
As you know, I started this thread on 10 July to gather information to help
me decide what recorder to purchase as part of an upgrade project for my
nature sound recording system. My intent is to set up a recorder and very
sensitive microphones and related hardware primarily to be used for long
range recording of shore birds and raptors in wide open spaces where
getting close simply isn't practical. Its primarily an attempt on my part
to see if I can put to use some of my experience learned in a career of
working with underwater acoustics at long ranges and extreme depths. Its a
nothing ventured nothing gained sort of an adventure while learning as I go
as I see it.
I also started a second thread titled "Your Opinion Please" on 13 July
after discovering one more recorder besides those I was considering that
looked like it would fit my needs, the Tascam DR-100.
After reading all the responses and following the good suggestions about
matching mics & recorders based on self noise and recorder mic preamp noise
of mics I have and plan to be using in the future, this afternoon I made
my decision and a Marantz PMD661 was placed on order which I hopefully will
have the first of next week.
I have to say, its been a very intellectually profitable trip in reaching
this decision, Thanks to Rob D., Dan Dugan, and Raimund, my knowledge of
microphones and PCM recorders has been expanded considerably in just a few
days...
The choice of the PMD661 was largely helped in the making by the excellent
recorder and microphone data collected and made available by the members
here, and some very good advise by a number of you.
So to you all, my great thanks for your efforts and success to make the
Naturerecordists group work as it does...
Thank You all...
Mitch & Shadow...
At 11:08 PM 7/10/2010 -0400, I originally wrote:
>Hello All,
>
>I'm into a project that is looking like purchasing a new recorder is going
>to be a part of it. I'm very happy with my LS-11 and the ME66/K6
>combination for drop in the pocket field use, however its time to take a
>deeper look into how the recorder deals with inputs and outputs, mainly top
>end type microphones.
>
>Primarily I will need a low noise, dual XLR balanced input, with phantom
>power and stores data on SDHC cards.
>
>Recorders I'm looking at are the Zoom H4n with the new mic preamps
>and
>Marantz PMD-661
>
>My alternate plan is to purchase a Sound Devices MixPre and use it with the
>LS-11 however, for the same cost or a little less, I can purchase a
>recorder that does what is needed and when all is said and done, I'll end
>up with two recorders... To me, this is a better outcome...
>
>Please, if you have any comments one way or the other about either of these
>recorders or any others that would meet the needs spelled out above, please
>advise me...
>
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Mitch
http://www.4shared.com/dir/UTASxktL/wildlife.html
Shadow's area: http://www.4shared.com/dir/ecfWjyZb/Shadow.html
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