Hello all. I just joined this group to seek advice about buying a portable =
digital recorder to obtain decent cricket/katydid stridulation sounds. For=
years I've had a tiny condenser mic planted some 100 feet in back of my ho=
use, out near a graveyard fence. A little preamp propels the audio signal t=
hrough a coax cable I planted underground. It ends at an amp upstairs. It's=
a super cheap setup yes, but it has enabled me to hear all kinds of sounds=
of things I did not previously know were in the cemetery, or my yard. I ca=
ll the experience, "camping out, indoors". I love hearing the audio in the=
background while I work at the computer.
Anyway, I figure that I better get going with recording some of what I love=
to hear before I lose the ability to hear it. Born in 1950, and not gettin=
g any younger, I can no longer hear the high pitch katydid chirps but can a=
t least get an idea of what I used to hear by lowering the pitch with audac=
ity.
Is there a unit - around $200.00 or so - that an amateur like myself would =
probably be pleased with? I have been ordering through B&H for decades. ht=
tp://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/buy/Portable-Digital-Recorders/ci/14934/N/42486=
Message: 27700.
Subject: I sure would like to start with a unit with a built in mic.
Here are some of the recorder requirements I read about.
(1) option of manual recording level setting
(2) display of recorded level
(3) microphone input
(4) designed for music recording
(5) capable of recording in at least CD format
(6) Ein of better than -116dBu
(7) uncompressed recording format of at least stereo 44.1kHz sampling/16 bi=
ts
(8) record up to 96 kHz
Thanks!
Tom Iowa USA
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