Re: What's everybody's favourite parabolic microphone setup?

["Scott Fraser" scottbfraser]

<<I ask because a friend tells me that he believes sound recorded on a
Zoom at 16 bit / 48kHz would sound much the same as the same sound
recorded on a camera at 16 bit/48kHz.>>

While the analog to digital conversion rate may be identical, nothing else =
is necessarily the same with the two systems. With current digital audio re=
cording the conversion is fairly uniformly good with modern AD converters. =
What separates the merely good from the exceptional as well as the awful is=
 all the analog stages prior to the conversion into bits. High quality anal=
og microphone preamps are very expensive & the difference between 'good eno=
ugh' & 'outstanding' preamps is audibly very dramatic. 16 bits at 48kHz CAN=
 sound extremely good, or it can merely render a poor analog stage accurate=
ly as the piece of cheap electronics that it is.

Scott Fraser