yes, Marco - thanks for this. It's also posted on the 'a quiet position'
facebook group & has a few comments there.
one thing that's been mentioned quite a lot & that I myself feel is that whilst
there are lots of good sites that list specs for various bits of kit there are
still few side by side tests with audio of a few units at a time. There's a
need for more of this as the specs only tell one (imo, small) part of the
story.
--- In vickipowys <> wrote:
>
> Marco,
>
> That was a very interesting test, but with little or no response from
> this group, what a shame.
>
> It is one thing to read the noise figures for recorders and mics, but
> to have a hands-on demo is very worthwhile. I also downloaded the
> sound clip and had a good look in the spectrogram feature of Izotope RX.
>
> Your demo only compares the built-in microphones, but if anyone is
> wanting to use only this feature then my order of preference is:
>
> 1. Sony M10
> 2. Sony D50
> 3. Olympus LS7 (the LS10 may be better than the LS7?)
> 4. Zoom H1
> 5. Roland R05
>
> I would be very interested to hear a comparison of the same recorders
> when using external electret mics and plug-in-power (PIP).
>
> Vicki Powys
> Australia
>
>
>
> On 14/06/2012, at 7:02 AM, wrote:
>
> > I performed a test of some of my recorders (Sony M10, D50, Olympus
> > LS7, Roland R05 Zoom H1) to compare their internal mics on a
> > passerine bird singer, the Blackcap, very widespread here in Europe.
> > A simultaneous recording was obtained with all five recorders; the
> > levels were set to have almost the same level on all recorders;
> > fine tuning of levels in post production was required only for the
> > Roland R05 (+3db) and the Zoom H1 (+6db).
> > The Olympus Ls 7 was enabled for all its three microphones (the two
> > side cardioids and the central one omnidirectional).
> > Here the youtube link to the Movie file
> > http://youtu.be/o3HCdmTujAU
> > and here the Soundcloud link to the WAV file http://soundcloud.com/
> > marco-pesente/blackcap-m10-d50-ls7-r05-h1
> >
> > Marco Pesente
> >
>
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