Original Message from: "doctorobotnik"
> The whole thing smells to me like salesmanship and snake oil. I'd
> keep well clear.
I originally looked up this mic and dismissed it immediately. I've had
a second look and it's worse than I thought. The manual appears to be
a poor translation, but I'm used to those and struggled on.
I googled "Mitra Corp" and all sorts of large companies came up.
I would have expected someone with a technical knowledge to have
checked out the spec, but "Battery fuel gauge"? And "Phono line out
max signal voltage: <200 ohms"? Hmmm.
Then I saw the frequency response with a huge peak at 3K of about 24
dB. The suggested Audacity equalisation was only +10dB ref 1K. This is
not even telephone quality. One thing for sure is that it will "ring"
at 3K and much of the birdsong I record above 3K would be weak.
After some difficulties, I managed to download the rain.mp3 sample and
it had a massive peak at 3K up 20 dB ref 1K and made a tinkling noise.
At this point I gave up, but how would you ever produce a windshield
which also covered the birds nest elastic mount?
I noticed the bit about it sounding best on headphones or close
speakers. To me this suggests omni mics and purely time of arrival
stereo. In other words a dummy head rig without a dummy head.
David
David Brinicombe
North Devon, UK
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum - Ambrose Bierce
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