there is another issue. very rarely do you want the microphone to be where =
the camera is.
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umashankar
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umashankar
From: Scott Fraser <>
>To:
>Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 8:06 PM
>Subject: [Nature Recordists] Re: What's everybody's favourite parabolic mi=
crophone setup?
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><<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.>>
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>While the analog to digital conversion rate may be identical, nothing else=
is necessarily the same with the two systems. With current digital audio r=
ecording the conversion is fairly uniformly good with modern AD converters.=
What separates the merely good from the exceptional as well as the awful i=
s all the analog stages prior to the conversion into bits. High quality ana=
log microphone preamps are very expensive & the difference between 'good en=
ough' & 'outstanding' preamps is audibly very dramatic. 16 bits at 48kHz CA=
N sound extremely good, or it can merely render a poor analog stage accurat=
ely as the piece of cheap electronics that it is.
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>Scott Fraser
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