At 8:19 PM -0500 9/28/10, Rick Munday wrote:
> I had the iPod "on it's back" so to speak with the Mikey angled so it wa=
s
>straight up and down. So like an "L" on it's side, the long arm being the
>iPod.
Hi Rick--
Its hard for me to visualize the angle options. I'm not even sure
how the capsules are oriented inside the mesh. Maybe can take some
pictures?
I noticed that the first first sample on the Blue website has pretty
nice stereo imaging (placed very close to the subject?) whereas the
imaging of the 2nd sample (mics farther away?) is considerably more
centered, less spatial. The angle adjustment might be playing a role
or not-- perhaps something to explore and determine. If not, you
might be able to disassemble the mic and improve its stereo imaging
capabilities. The capsules sound like they have potential.
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>Looking at the settings in FiRe (the software I purchased to record with),
>it's set to high quality, bit rate default is 192kbps. I just set it to
>256kbps.
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>The default format is m4a.
Check the data rate on this format. I prefer m4a encoding to mp3
myself. So there's no non-compressed recording format on the iPod?
If so, this kind of contradicts Blues claim of "44.1 CD quality." Rob
D.
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>I'll run out in the morning and record some more at the same place and get
>that uploaded before lunch.
>
>Rick
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>On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Rob Danielson
><<type%40uwm.edu>> wrote:
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>> Hi Rick--
>> Thanks for posting the sample. Pretty nice fidelity for its price
>> range. The stereo field seems narrower than it might have to be. I
>> see there are "7 angle adjustments for any environment. " What "angle
>> adjustment" was your sample recorded at? Did you use the high record
>> setting?
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>> If you can coax a wider stereo image out of it, we can evaluate it
>> better if the mp3 sample is 256kbps or higher. There's quite a bit of
>> distortion from the mp3 compression in the first 128kbps sample. Also
>> make sure you record in a non-compression format if possible (Blue
>> website tech info on the mic is limited). Rob D.
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