Alan,
That's great that you are up and running with a decent mic, the NTG-2
seems to have good reviews. Making movies of singing katydids might
be a good project with your new camcorder & mic combination.
When you get the opportunity to upgrade your recorder with access to
a high sample rate, you will be amazed at how high some katydids sing!
I have noticed in my local area great variation in katydid song
according to temperature, with revving and idling when cool and
constant whirring when hot.
Good luck with your explorations!
Vicki
On 07/12/2012, at 12:06 AM, symmerista wrote:
> Vicki,
>
> As it turns out, I didn't have quite enough $$$ available to go the
> ME66/K6 route, so I went with a Rode NTG-2 (even so, with all the
> accessories, it still came close to $500US!). I chose the NTG-2
> over the NTG-1 so I could also connect it to my new Canon Vixia
> camcorder.
>
> Very exciting! I feel like I'm on the precipice of a whole new
> world. Although this'll have to wait until the spring, I'm quite
> interested in not only discovering what singing insect species
> we've got around here, but also in documenting intraspecific
> variation. Our experiences this fall suggest that temperature-
> dependent variation may be masking other sources of intraspecific
> variation (or else that we've got some species not known to be in
> this region!).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Alan
>
> --- In vickipowys
> <> wrote:
>>
>> Alan,
>>
>> All the advertising for the iRig Pre indicates that yes indeed you
>> could connect a Sennheiser ME66 to an iPhone. The iRig has optional
>> power supply, you would switch it off if the mic supplied its own
>> power. Yes you do need the K6 unit with the ME66, I would recommend
>> the one that uses its own battery power, 1 x AA battery lasts for
>> ages if you remember to switch it off between recording sessions.
>> You can also bypass the AA battery to use 48V phantom power. If you
>> intend to eventually use the ME66 with a smaller flash card recorder
>> then you would definitely need the AA battery-powered K6 unit. Rode
>> made handles and softie windshields that are much cheaper than Rycote
>> or Sennheiser.
>>
>> Hope this helps!
>>
>> Vicki
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 06/12/2012, at 12:15 AM, symmerista wrote:
>>
>>> The Edutige does in fact do nothing more than amplifying the
>>> iphone's sound. This does increase my students' ability to identify
>>> unknowns, but post-processing, e.g., through Audacity, is probably
>>> at least as helpful.
>>>
>>> My apologies for being dense here (ever since I lost hearing in one
>>> ear I've 'focused' almost entirely on the visual rather than the
>>> audio in the field), but if I splurged on the Sennheiser ME66 (and
>>> the K6 too, I presume?), could I use the iRig Pre to connect it to
>>> my iPhone? I realize that might be overkill, but for now that would
>>> clean my budget out, and I could then start saving up for a proper
>>> recorder.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Alan
>>>
>>> --- In vickipowys
>>> <vickipowys@> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Alan,
>>>>
>>>> The Edutige mic looks intriguing. I had a listen to a sample
>>>> recording but it seems to me that the hiss-noise increases along
>>>> with
>>>> the stronger signal from the mic, so it is not doing much more than
>>>> amplifying the sound you are already getting from the iPhone. All
>>>> the same, such gadgets can be useful to documenting wildlife sounds
>>>> if nothing else is available. You would probably find the
>>>> windshield
>>>> is inadequate, but better than nothing.
>>>>
>>>> If you want to use a larger better quality mic you have to consider
>>>> handling noise and most likely you would need a handle and shock-
>>>> mount for it, and a decent wind cover such as one of the 'softie'
>>>> types. By the time you have all of that (e.g. Sennheiser ME66 gun
>>>> mic is a great field mic for species recording), then you might as
>>>> well go with a purpose-built recorder such as Sony or Olympus or
>>>> whatever (lots of references on this list), and you can then set
>>>> the
>>>> recording sample rate to 96 K which will be useful for insect
>>>> recordings.
>>>>
>>>> Meanwhile, you can probably do quite a lot with the iPhone and it
>>>> would be no worse than the equipment that many of us started out
>>>> with
>>>> e.g. hissy cassette recorders and tie-pin microphones.
>>>>
>>>> good luck!
>>>>
>>>> Vicki
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 26/11/2012, at 9:06 AM, symmerista wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Greetings,
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm intrigued by the iRig Pre. For my field biology class I bought
>>>>> a $30 Edutige EIM-001 i-Microphone for my iPhone, and it
>>>>> definitely
>>>>> made sounds somewhat louder, which helped for our main purposes of
>>>>> recording unknown animals for later identification. The Edutige
>>>>> also worked with most of my students' various Android phones,
>>>>> though it's not marketed as such. Any chance that the iRig
>>>>> likewise
>>>>> has unadvertised Android compatibility?
>>>>>
>>>>> My main question, however, is what microphone would be a good,
>>>>> inexpensive choice to connect to an iphone/iRig setup. My
>>>>> objectives, for now, are not to produce "publication quality"
>>>>> sounds, but to capture good-quality sounds of birds, singing
>>>>> insects, frogs and toads for documentation and identification
>>>>> purposes. Portability is important, as I also lug around a fair
>>>>> bit
>>>>> of camera equipment. I've looked at the specs of many different
>>>>> mikes, but after a while my head starts spinning as I don't know
>>>>> nearly enough to decide which pros and cons are most relevant!
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>
>>>>> Alan
>>>>>
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